TCSC Awards

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Technical and Service Awards

Recently TCSC has announced the establishment of the: "IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing".  For details, please see http://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/ieee-medal.html

2008 Award Winner: Professor Jack Dongarra

Certificate of Appreciation - Service Awards

Recipient	Citation	Certificate Snapshot
Dr. Daniel Hyde Bucknell University, USA TFCC Newsletter Editor, 1999-2001	Dan Hyde (Bucknell University, USA) for his outstanding contribution to TFCC as Newletter editor and open discussion forum.
Shiranthi Ponnaiah Monash University, Australia Registration Co-Chair, TFCC first annual conference, 1999.	Shiranthi Ponnaiah (Monash University, Australia) for her outstanding contribution and providing administrative support to the task force's first annual event held in Melbourne.
Barry Wilkinson University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Education Coordinator, TFCC, 1999 to-date.	For outstanding contributions to the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) education program and for leadership in promoting cluster computing education by organising and teaching cluster computing workshops.
Frank Sommers Autospaces and University of Southern California, USA Newsletter Editor, TFCC, 2002 - to-date.	For transforming the the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) newsletter into a state-of-the-art community technical news portal.
Ms. Monika Grobecker Sun Microsystems GmbH Secretariat, TFCC Book Donation Program, 2001 - 2004.	For providing outstanding secretarial services to the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC)'s educational book donation program.
Dr. Bruno Schulze,  Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica-LNCC, Brazil	For your outstanding services towards the organization of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007) sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.
Dr. Vanish Talwar, HP Labs, USA	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Editor of its Newsletter.
Dr. Craig Lee, Aerospace Corporation, USA	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Chair of the Steering Committee of TCSC Sponsored Grid Conference (2001-2007) and active member of the CCGrid Symposium since its foundation in 2001.
Dr. Markus Lorch, IBM, Germany	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Coordinator of its Young Researcher Forum.
Dr. Srikumar Venugopal, University of Melbourne, Australia	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Coordinator of its Young Researcher Forum.
Dr. Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Chair of the Steering Committee of TCSC Sponsored International Conference on Cluster Computing.
Dr. Cho-Li Wang, University of Hongkong, Hongkong	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities in various roles including serving as a regional coordinator and chairing TCSC sponsored 5th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
Dr. Daniel S Katz, Louisiana State University, USA	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) sponsored International Conference on Cluster Computing since its foundation in 1999.
Dr. Toni Cortes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities in various roles including serving as a coordinator for TCSC Single System Image area and chairing TCSC sponsored 8th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
Dr. Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as regional coordinator for the Middle-East region.
Dr. Ira Pramanick, Sun Microsystems, USA	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities in various roles including serving as a coordinator for TCSC High Availability Systems area and chairing TCSC sponsored 8th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
Dr. Laurence Tianruo Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as its Conferences Coordinator.
Dr.Heinz Stockinger Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Program Chair of the First IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2005) and active member of the conference series.
Ms. Jia Yu, The University of Melbourne, Australia	For your outstanding services as Cyberchair for the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.
Dr. Omer Rana,  Cardiff University, UK	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Program Chair of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing (CCGrid) and the Grid and active member of the CCGrid conference series.
Dr. Alex Vrenios,  DSRLab, USA	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Coordinator of Performance Evaluation/Benchmarking area.
Dr. Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck, Austria	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Program Chair of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007).
Dr. Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) in various roles including serving as PC Chair of Grid 2002 and active member of the Steering Committee of this conference series.
Ms. Serena Coetzee, University of Pretoria, South Africa	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities as coordinator of the TCSC African region.
Dr. Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities as a coordinator of the "Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments" forum.
Dr. Peter Luksch, University of Rostock, Germany	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities as a coordinator of the "Software Engineering for Scalable Systems" forum.
Dr. Andreas Boklund, University West, Sweden	For your outstanding and sustained services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities as a Secretary of the Book Donation program.
Dr. Rosa Badia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as General Chair of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2006).
Dr. Walfredo Cirne,  Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as Program Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007).
Dr. Warren Smith, University of Texas, Austin, USA	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as General Chair of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007).
Dr. Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University, USA	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as General Chair of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007).
Dr. Vinod Rebello, Universidade Federal, Brazil	For your outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) activities as coordinator of the TCSC South American region.
Mr. Bindhumadhava BS, Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India	For outstanding services towards the organization of the 3rd International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007) sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.
Dr. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA	For outstanding services towards the organization of the 3rd International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007) sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.
Dr. Kenneth Chiu, State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton	For outstanding services towards the organization of the 3rd International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007) sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.