The Wilkes Award
Announcing the Winner of The Computer Journal Wilkes Award for 2010
We are pleased to announce the winning paper of the Wilkes Award for volume 53 (2010). This article is now available free online; simply click on the title below to read.
Winning paper
An Abstract Interpretation Approach for Enhancing the Java Bytecode Verifier
Roberto Barbuti, Nicoletta De Francesco, and Luca Tesei
Volume 53, Issue 6 (p679-700)
In 2011, the judgement for the Award for Volume 53 (2010) was carried out by:
- Dr John Cooke, Loughborough University, UK
- Prof. Iain Stewart, University of Durham, UK
- Prof. Franco Zambonelli, Universita di Modena Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Prof. Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA
- Prof. Leonid Libkin, Edinburgh University, UK
About the Wilkes Award
The Wilkes Award is given for the best paper published in a volume of The Computer Journal. It is awarded each year to the author or authors of one paper appearing in the previous volume (year). The Award consists of some £500 purchase vouchers from Oxford University Press.
The Wilkes Award is named after Sir Maurice Wilkes, who was Director of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory throughout the whole development of stored program computers starting with EDSAC; inventor of labels, macros and microprogramming; with David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, the inventor of a programming system based on subroutines.
Criteria for the Award are originality and quality of theme and treatment. The judgement is made by a sub-committee of the Editorial Board.
