The Wilkes Award
Announcing the Winner of The Computer Journal Wilkes Award for 2008
We are pleased to announce the two winning papers of the Wilkes Award for volume 51 (2008). These articles are now available free online. Click on the titles below to read them.
Winning papers
Computing with Time: From Neural Networks to Sensor Networks
Boleslaw Szymanski and Gilbert G. Chen
Volume 51, Issue 4
The Collective Index: A Technique for Efficient Processing of Progressive Queries
Qiang Zhu, Brahim Medjahed, Anshuman Sharma and Henry Huang
Volume 51, Issue 6
The runner-up, with commendations from the panel, is:
On the Behavioral Equivalence Between k-data Structures
Manuel A. Martins
Volume 51, Issue 2
In 2009, the judgement for the Award for Volume 51 (2008) was carried out by:
- Prof. Ing-Ray Chen, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Falls Church, USA
- Dr John Cooke, Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK
- Prof. Iain Stewart, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, University of Durham, 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 and a medal for the winner, and some £100 purchase vouchers for the runner-up.
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.