Carter Award

The William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability

Award Presentation

The IEEE TC on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT) and IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (WG 10.4) jointly sponsor the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability.

Instituted in 1997 as the William C. Carter Award, it was reformulated in 2016, where the present name and eligibility requirements aim at recognizing an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable and secure computing throughout his or her PhD dissertation.

The award recipient will receive a $2,000 US cash award, and a waived registration fee to attend the edition of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) at which the award is presented. The recipient will be required to attend DSN to receive the award and will be invited to give a short presentation to DSN attendees.

Eligibility and Nomination

To be eligible for the award, the nominee’s PhD defense must be completed prior to the nomination deadline and must have occurred no more than 16 months prior to the nomination deadline. A candidate can be nominated only one time. Previous recipients of the (old or renamed) Carter Award are not eligible.

Nominations are due on February 9, 2018. For complete information on nomination please visit Here

For 2018, the winner of the 2018 William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability is:

CHRISTOPH BORCHERT, from the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, for his thesis titled “ASPECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY FOR DEPENDABLE OPERATING SYSTEMS”.

Citations and complete information on the award can be found on the award web page: http://www.dependability.org/carter-award.html