During its September meeting in Budapest, the IFIP General Assembly (GA) honored its volunteers with two categories of awards: 65 Silver Core Awards and 8 Outstanding Service Awards (OSAs). The former is conferred on those who have served IFIP as GA members, committee officers, members of IFIP Congress program committees, and editors of proceedings of IFIP conferences. The required length of service varies with the role. The president of IFIP may also propose individuals who have given exceptional service to IFIP. (Those readers who have entered the field of information processing in recent years may not realize that the IFIP logo represents a magnetic core — a toroidal memory device that was once the most common type of computer memory — and its wires, with a globe superimposed. The Award, first established in 1974, was named after this symbol of the computer technology of that time.) So far, 381 Silver Cores have been awarded. This year's recipients are:
E. Altman D. Avison R. Baskerville S.C. Bhatnagar W. Bibel P.G. Bots B.K. Brussaard Z. Bubnicki H.C. Bunt R. de Caluwe J.M. Carroll A. Casaca G. Cockton B. Cornu J. Cuena G. Davies C. Delgado-Kloos E. Dirkx A. Edwards E. Eloranta D.W. Etherington P. Flach C. Gergely C. Girault B. Glasson J. Gonzales-Abascal P. Gorny J. Hammond T. Hewett J. Hoekstra V.B. Iversen J.L. King T. Kjellberg R. Koblo M. Korpela D. Kouvatsos R. Kurki-Suonio J. Lee K. Lyytinen O. Martikainen S. Nakai E.R. Olderog G. Papp R. Posch J. Preece R. Puigjaner S.V. Raghavan R. Soenen S. von Solms S. Spaccapietra T.J. Stonham A. Sutcliffe E. Sutherland N. Terashima D. Tinsley M. Toth J.F. Traub G.C. van der Veer D. Vogel A.G. Werschulz G. White J. Wibe J.C. Wortmann L. Yngstrom W. Zimmer
The OSA, established in 1988, is given for services rendered to IFIP by Technical Committee and Working Group members, on recommendation of TC chairmen and approval by the Internal Awards Committee. Eligible for nomination are individuals not normally eligible for the Silver Core Award. So far, 57 OSAs have been awarded. This year's recipients are:
TC3: B. Collis
B.Z. Barta
TC8: S. Brinkkemper
H.E. Nissen
P. Humphreys
TC9: S. Munari
TC11: D. Batchelor
TC13: L. Oestreicher