ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

This award is presented to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.

The award recipients share a $1000 honorarium, and each recipient receives a plaque engraved with their name and signed by the chair of SIGSOFT. The award is announced by the SIGSOFT chair at ICSE during ICSE's award presentation session. The award recipients are invited to give a keynote presentation at the SIGSOFT FSE conference in the year in which the award is made. Each award recipient also receives travel support up to $2500 within their home continent and up to $3000 outside their home continent, including airfare, hotel, and conference registration to attend the agreed-upon conference.

The selection committee is appointed by the SIGSOFT chair and consists of a combination of recent recipients of the award and current SIGSOFT executive committee members. The committee solicits nominations from the software engineering community in a variety of ways including announcements in SIGSOFT's newsletter, Software Engineering Notes, and postings on appropriate newsgroups and websites. The committee considers all external nominations, plus any internal nominations from members of the committee, in the context of the nominees' research contributions to software engineering.

Nominations should be made electronically to sigsoft-research-award@acm.org no later than December 15 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: