ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award

Education is vital to the advancement of the research and practice of Software Engineering. Yet, the contributions of an educator often go unnoticed, except perhaps by those closest to the educator. The SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award will be presented annually to an educator who has made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his/her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher (in education or learning), author, and/or policy maker. The award may be made to multiple collaborators for joint contributions, such as a co-authored text book.

The award includes a $1000 honorarium and a plaque recognizing the awardee's contributions. The awardee will be invited to one of SIGSOFT's flagship conferences - ICSE or FSE - to publicly receive the award. Travel support in the amount of $2000 will be provided to help defray the costs of attending the event. A public citation for the award will be placed on the SIGSOFT web site.

Nominations should be made electronically to sigsoft-educator-award@acm.org no later than December 15th of each year. Nominations should include

• a proposed citation (25 words),
• a succinct (100-250 words) description of the innovation/contribution, and
• a detailed statement to justify the nomination

Plain text is preferred. Up to three supporting letters are encouraged, but not required.

The following individuals are the previous winners:

2010	Leon J. Osterweil
2009	Laurie Williams, Nico Habermann (posthumously)