[Storage-research-list] Call for Nominations: July 1 2008 deadline: IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award

[Garth Gibson]

www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/sums/johnson.html

Nomination Deadline: July 1, 2008

The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award was 
established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1991 and may be presented 
annually for outstanding contributions to information storage systems, 
with emphasis on computer storage systems.

It may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients or team up to 
three in number.

It is named in honor of Reynold B. Johnson, who is renowned as a pioneer 
of magnetic disk technology and was founding manager of the IBM San Jose 
Research and Engineering Laboratory, San Jose, California in 1952, where 
IBM research and development in the field was centered.

In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: 
computer storage is emphasized, achievement may relate to materials, 
concepts, design, hardware or software, may be theoretical or 
experimental, but will be judged on the impact and the historical 
significance on the evolution of computer storage systems, and the 
quality of the nomination.

Recipient selection is administered by the IEEE Awards Board through its 
Technical Field Awards Council.

A nomination is made through the above web site.  The nominator will:
- summarize nominator qualifications (no self-nominations),
- ensure three to five endorsement letters (not from the nominator) are 
submitted,
- propose a "citation" for the award of less than 25 words,
- construct the basic nomination with bio, pertinent publications, 
statement of achievement (1200 words maximum), community activities and 
honors.

Recent awardees:

2008 - ALAN J. SMITH
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

“For contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage 
systems, including improvements to disk caches, prefetching and data 
placement”

2007- Co-Recipients

DAVE HITZ
Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA

and

JAMES LAU
Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Network 
Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA

"For innovation in file system technology, leading to the development of 
network file server appliances."


2006 - JAISHANKAR M. MENON
Director of Storage Systems Architecture and Design, IBM, San Jose, CA

"For pioneering work in the theory and application of RAID storage systems."


garth gibson
Chair, 2008 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award 
Committee
Co-Recipient, 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems 
Awardee, 'For the development of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks 
(RAID) systems.'