The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award is granted yearly by the
Association for Computing Machinery
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(ACM) to honor "specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing".
[ It was instituted in 1996, in memory of Paris C. Kanellakis, a ]computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
who died with his immediate family in an airplane crash in South America in 1995 (American Airlines Flight 965
American Airlines Flight 965 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport
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).[ The award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000 and is endowed by contributions from Kanellakis's parents, with additional financial support provided by four ACM Special Interest Groups (]SIGACT
ACM SIGACT or SIGACT is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in theoretical computer science. It was founded in 1968 by Patrick C. Fischer.
Publi ...
, SIGDA
SIGDA, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation
, is a professional development organization for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community. SIGDA is organized and operated exclusively for educati ...
, SIGMOD
SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases.
The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of ...
, and SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages.
Conferences
* Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
* Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
* International Symposium on M ...
), the ACM SIG Projects Fund,[ and individual contributions.][
]
Winners
See also
* List of computer science awards
This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, other comput ...
References
External links
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
on the ACM website.
The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Committee
on the ACM website.
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