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

[Garth Gibson]

Reminder: IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award  
deadline approaches

I have been asked if nominees or nominators must be IEEE members.  The  
answer is no.  The list of non-eligible people is small; for example,  
IEEE boards, staff and awards council and committee members.  Also no  
self-nominations and no posthumous nominations.

Details on the nomination logistics are available online: www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/guidelines/mdltfaguide.html

Please help us identify the contributions most deserving of recognition!

-------- Reprise of call for nominations ---------

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.'