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Call for Nominations: Alonzo Church Award 2019, Deadline: 1 Mar 2019

The 2019 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and 
Computation

Call for Nominations

Introduction

An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions 
to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest 
Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for 
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer 
Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt Gödel Society (KGS). The award
is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group 
of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting 
impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be 
given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on 
the research. For the rules governing this award, see: 
https://siglog.acm.org/alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation-2019/ 
<https://siglog.acm.org/ 
alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation-2019/>, 
https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award/, and https://eacsl.org/.

The 2018 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Tomás Feder and Moshe Y. 
Vardi for their fundamental contributions to the computational complexity of 
constraint-satisfaction problems, see: 
http://siglog.org/winners-of-the-2018-alonzo-church-award/. Previous awardees 
are listed at https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award.

Eligibility and Nominations

The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the 
past 25 years. Thus, for the 2019 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1994. 
When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of 
the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the 
contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as 
the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Gödel Prize. (The nominee(s) may 
have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution can 
consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a 
preference.

Nominations for the 2019 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter 
must summarize the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and 
outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. 
Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation 
(up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; 
and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination. 
Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of 
worthiness.

Nominations should be submitted to shankar@csl.sri.com by March 1, 2019.

Presentation of the Award

The 2019 award will be presented at ICALP 2019, the International Colloquium on 
Automata, Languages and Programming. The award will be accompanied by an 
invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The 
awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If there 
are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared.

Award Committee

The 2019 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five members: 
Radha Jagadeesan, Thomas Eiter, Javier Esparza, Natarajan Shankar (chair), and 
Catuscia Palamidessi.

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