The William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability
In 2016 the winner is Sebastiano Peluso
For his PhD Dissertation entitled: "Efficient Protocols for Replicated Transactional Systems"
Sebastiano Peluso did a Joint-PhD program between Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) and Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal). He defended the thesis on the 26th of September, 2014.
Supervisors: Prof. Francesco Quaglia (Sapienza University), Prof. Paolo Romano (Instituto Superior Técnico).
Sebastiano is currently, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Virginia Tech., US.
Award Presentation
The IEEE TC on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance and IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance are jointly announcing the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability. Previously known simply as the William C. Carter Award, it has been presented annually since 1997 to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research.
This year, the award has been changed to a dissertation award with nominations to be made by the nominee’s PhD advisor. A special committee will evaluate all nominations made in the current year and choose the award recipient. The award recipient will receive a $2000 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.
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. Nominations will be due on January 22.
For complete information on nomination please visit: http://www.dependability.org/carter-award.html
About Wlliam C. Carter
Bill Carter's career spanned over four decades, from programming, debugging, and recovery in ENIAC, through reliability, availability and serviceability during the evolution and definition of IBM mainframes. In particular, he took great interest in the future of the field and was instrumental in promoting the work of young contributors. It was characteristic of Bill to take the initiative in reaching out to students and younger colleagues. The William C. Carter Award is intended to honor and carry on his legacy.
List of Past Winners:
• 2015: "Δ-encoding: Practical Encoded Processing", Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, Germany, and Christof Fetzer.
• 2014: “Reliability and Security Monitoring of Virtual Machines Using Hardware Architectural Invariants”, Cuong Pham, Zachary Estrada, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar Iyer.
• 2013: “Hector: Detecting Resource-Release Omission Faults in Error-Handling Code for Systems Software,” Suman Saha, Jean-Pierre Lozi, Gael Thomas, Julia Lawall, and Gilles Muller.
• 2012:“Taming Mr. Hayes: Mitigating Signaling-Based Attacks on Smartphones,” Collin Mulliner, Steffen Liebergeld, Matthias Lange, and Jean-Pierre Seifert.
• 2011: “Modeling Stream Processing Applications for Dependability Evaluation,” Gabriela Jacques-Silva, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Bugra Gedik, Henrique Andrade, Kun-Lung Wu, and Ravishankar K. Iyer.
• 2010: “Scalable RFID Systems: a Privacy-Preserving Protocol with Constant-Time Identification,” Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, Jorge Cuellar and Radha Poovendran.
• 2009: “Vulnerability & Attack Injection for Web Applications,” Jose Fonseca, Marco Vieira, and Henrique Madeira.
• 2008: “SymPLFIED: Symbolic Program Level Fault Injection and Error Detection Framework,” Karthik Pattabiraman, Nithin Nakka, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk and Ravishakar Iyer.
• 2007: “Failure Resilience for Device Drivers,” Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Homburg, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
• 2006: “Automatic Instruction-Level Software-Only Recovery Methods,” Jonathan Chang, George Reis, and David August.
• 2005:
“Fatih: Detecting and Isolating Malicious Routers,” Alper Mizrak, Yuchung Cheng, Keith Marzullo, and Stefan Savage.
“Authenticated System Calls,” Mohan Rajagopalan, Matti Hiltunen, Trevor Jim, and Richard Schlichting.
• 2004: “Diverse Firewall Design,” Alex X. Liu, and Mohamed G. Gouda.
• 2003: “Definition of Software Fault Emulation Operators: A Field Data Study,” João Durães and Henrique Madeira.
• 2002: “Robust Software – No More Excuses,” John DeVale and Philip Koopman.
• 2001: “An Approach for Analysing the Propagation of Data Errors in Software,” Martin Hiller, Arshad Jhumka, and Neeraj Suri.
• 2000: “On the Quality of Service of Failure Detectors,” Wei Chen, Sam Toueg, and Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera.
• 1999: “The Systematic Improvement of Fault Tolerance in the Rio File Cache,” Wee Teck Ng and Peter M. Chen.
• 1998: “RENEW: A Tool for Fast and Efficient Implementation of Checkpoint Protocols,” Nuno Neves and W. Kent Fuchs.
•1997:
“COFTA: Hardware-Software Co-Synthesis of Heterogeneous Distributed Embedded System Architectures for Low Overhead Fault Tolerance,” Bharat P. Dave and Niraj K. Jha.
“Fail-Awareness: An Approach to Construct Fail-Safe Applications,” Christof Fetzer and Flaviu Cristian.
