[DMANET] Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2027

========================================== 2027 Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing ========================================== We are pleased to announce that the 2027 Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing is awarded to Shlomi Dolev from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Shlomi has been a major contributor to the field of self-stabilization in distributed computing. His numerous contributions have appeared in leading conferences and journals, including three papers at SIROCCO. Indeed, Shlomi was the main driving force that allowed Dijkstra's 1974 concept of self-stabilization to develop into the rich landscape of such systems known today. From the beginning of his graduate research, he developed self-stabilizing protocols for dynamic systems. Prominent examples of this part of his research, some with collaborators, are uniform dynamic self-stabilizing leader election and optimal-time stabilization in uniform dynamic systems. He also contributed significantly to self-stabilizing clock synchronization and combined it with Byzantine fault tolerance. Another substantial part of Shlomi's research in this area has been devoted to the development of foundations of the field. In particular, Shlomi and his collaborators introduced the fair-composition technique that makes self-stabilizing protocols composable. He also introduced superstabilization, which asks not only that a system converge after a topology change but that a passage predicate hold throughout the transition, so that dynamicity is handled gracefully rather than merely survived. Shlomi gave a formal meaning to self-organization, requiring that a self-stabilizing algorithm also converge in time sub-linear in the system size and confine the effect of a local change to its vicinity, and showed how random walks can build and maintain a hierarchy of colonies that meets these requirements, so that large dynamic systems can organize themselves without global coordination. Shlomi's 2000 MIT Press monograph “Self-Stabilization” remains the standard reference in the area, and it was primarily him who transformed a one-off Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems into the annual SSS symposium. Besides his contributions to self-stabilization, Shlomi's work also addresses many additional aspects of dynamic distributed computing. These include localization of effects of changes, his work on communication services, on mobile nodes, on wireless networks, and on software-defined networks. The 2027 Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing hence acknowledges Shlomi Dolev's pioneering contributions to self-stabilization in distributed computing. It will be awarded at SIROCCO 2027, to be held on June 2-4, 2027, in Larnaca, Cyprus. The 2027 Award Committee: Keren Censor-Hillel (Technion, Israel) Yuval Emek (Technion, Israel) Ran Gelles (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Chryssis Georgiou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Ulrich Schmid (TU Wien, Austria) ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************