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Winners of 2022 SIGAda Awards

SIGAda is pleased to announce the following SIGAda awards for 2022.

Winner of
2022 Robert Dewar Award for
Outstanding Ada Community Contributions

Fabien Chouteau

Fabien Chouteau has been the lead of AdaCore's Ada Community outreach activities for many years. He has been the energy behind the "Make With Ada" and "Crate of the Year" contests, and has invigorated the Ada hobbyist market by encouraging support of amateur Ada champions, fostering the development of the excellent Alire package manager for Ada, and working to move all AdaCore libraries from GPL to a more permissive ("Apache 2.0") license.

Winner of
2022 ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award

Luis Miguel Pinho

Luis Miguel Pinho (PhD SMIEEE SMACM) is a Professor and Researcher in the Computer Engineering Department of the Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP), in Portugal. Miguel is the current editor of Ada Letters and serves as the SIGAda Secretary-Treasurer. He was a member of the Research Center in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems, and Executive Director of the Porto Research, Technology & Innovation Center. He served as General Chair and Program Co-Chair of Ada-Europe 2006 and General Co-Chair of ARCS 2015, was a Keynote Speaker at RTCSA 2010 and Program Co-Chair of Ada-Europe 2012, Ada-Europe 2016 and RTNS 2016. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Ada User Journal, and is a member of the HiPEAC network of excellence.