Tsutomu Kanai Award
The Tsutomu Kanai Award was established in 1997 by a generous endowment from Hitachi Ltd., and named in honor of Dr. Tsutomu Kanai who served as Hitachi's president for 30 years. The Kanai Award recognized major contributions to the state-of-the art distributed computing systems and their applications. The award consisted of a crystal model, certificate, and $10,000 honorarium. This award was discontinued after 2012.
Past Recipients
2012
Beng Chin Ooi
For pioneering research in distributed database management and peer-to-peer based enterprise quality management.
For pioneering research in distributed database management and peer-to-peer based enterprise quality management.
2011
Ian T. Foster
For pioneering research in grid computing, integrating geographically distributed instruments, computers, and data.
For pioneering research in grid computing, integrating geographically distributed instruments, computers, and data.
2009
Kenneth P. Birman
For fundamental and practical contributions to distributed computing, fault tolerance, reliability and distributed systems management.
For fundamental and practical contributions to distributed computing, fault tolerance, reliability and distributed systems management.
2008
Benjamin W. Wah
For outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of distributed multimedia and nonlinear optimization algorithms.
For outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of distributed multimedia and nonlinear optimization algorithms.
2007
Willy Zwaenepoel
For contributions to cluster-based distributed computing for scientific and Web applications.
For contributions to cluster-based distributed computing for scientific and Web applications.
2006
Larry Smarr
2005
2004
Kane Kim
For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the scientific foundation of both real-time object-structuring based distributed computing and real-time fault-tolerant distributed computing.
For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the scientific foundation of both real-time object-structuring based distributed computing and real-time fault-tolerant distributed computing.
2003
James Gosling
For major contributions to advances in the technology for construction of distributed computing systems through invention of the Java Language system.
For major contributions to advances in the technology for construction of distributed computing systems through invention of the Java Language system.
2002
Stephen S. Yau
For outstanding contributions to distributed computing software engineering and promotion of the community of distributed computing software researchers.
For outstanding contributions to distributed computing software engineering and promotion of the community of distributed computing software researchers.
2001
Alfred Spector
2000
C.V. Ramamoorthy
For pioneering fundamental contributions to extracting parallelism and to the design of distributed system.
For pioneering fundamental contributions to extracting parallelism and to the design of distributed system.
1999
Kenneth L. Thompson
For creating the UNIX Operating System, which for more than 20 years has been a key platform for distributed systems work.
For creating the UNIX Operating System, which for more than 20 years has been a key platform for distributed systems work.
