
Thursdays Awards

ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE CS handed out a number of other awards and recognitions. SIGSOFTs CAPS program, which supports student travel to conferences, funded 12 students for ICSE 2001 for a total of $9,000, an increase of 50% over last year. Jeff Kramer, a SIGSOFT member, was selected as an ACM Fellow this year, and two Honorable Mention awards in this years ACM Doctoral Dissertation contest went to students who had published much of their thesis work in ICSE: Michael D. Ernst and William Chan. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award went to Kouichi Kishida, while ACM Outstanding Research Award went to Michael Jackson. Anke Weber and Kenny Wong were recognized for their work on running the conference newsletter WOW and the conference Web site, respectively. Lastly, IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award went to Manny Lehman.

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