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    The 2011 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing
                   A Call for Nominations
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The IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for
significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing
community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
(TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high
impact research. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium of
$1000. In the past, IEEE TCSC medal of excellence were awarded to
Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008,
Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009,
and Professor William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA) in 2010.

Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or
may nominate him/her-self. Nomination should be sent via email to the
award coordinator(s) listed below. A nomination should include the
following details:

1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current
professional affiliations and titles.

2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely
stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the
award.

3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical
achievements as well as significance and impact.

4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate~Rs service and specific
contributions to TCSC, its mission and its activities.

5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at
least endorsers.

Please provide the names, affiliation, and addresses (email) of your
designated endorsers for your nomination. The endorsers will be required
to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service
to the TCSC community.

Important Dates:
    -  Nomination Deadline:  Feb 30, 2011
    - Results Notification:  Mar 20, 2011

Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of
leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee
and the TCSC Advisory Board.

Award Presentation Note: The award will presented at the 11th IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid
2011), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, and to be held in Los
Angeles (Newport Beach), CA, USA from May 23-26, 2011. USA. The winner
should be available to receive the award in person and present a keynote
talk at the CCGrid 2011 conference. For more information about the
conference please see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ccgrid11/.

Chair/Coordinator:
-      Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
      (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu)