Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing
The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SIROCCO award) is an award presented annually at the conference Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) to a living individual (or individuals) who have made a major contribution to understanding "the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized computing", which is main area of interest for this conference. The award recognizes innovation, in particular, new ideas that were unorthodox and outside the mainstream at the tie of their introduction. There are two restrictions for being eligible for this award: (1) The original contribution must have appeared in a publication at least five years before the year of the award, (2) One of the articles related to this contribution and authored by this candidate must have appeared in the proceedings of SIROCCO.[1]
The award was presented for the first time in 2009.[2]
Winners
| Year | Recipient | Topic |
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| 2009[3] | Nicola Santoro | Analysis of properties of labeled Graphs |
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Jean-Claude Bermond | Impact of structure of networks on the efficiency of parallel or distributed algorithms |
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David Peleg | Local computing, robot computing, dynamic monopolies, sparse spanners, compact routing and labeling schemes |
| 2012[4] | Roger Wattenhofer | Distributed approximation |
| 2013[5] | Andrzej Pelc | Communication paradigms for information dissemination |