IEEE-Computer Society Charles Babbage Award

Franck Cappello Named Recipient of the
2024 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award
For pioneering contributions and inspiring leadership in distributed computing, high-performance computing, resilience, and data reduction.

Established in 2016, the IEEE-CS Charles Babbage Award is now an official IEEE Computer Society Technical Award, to be awarded annually "In Recognition of Significant Contributions in the Field of Parallel Computing." The award is open to all contributors at all stages of their careers. The winner of the award will be someone who has made an outstanding, innovative contribution or contributions to parallel computation. It is hoped, but not required, that the winner will have also contributed to the parallel computation community through teaching, mentoring, or community service.

See a recent IEEE Computer Society interview with Dr. Cappello:
Pioneering the Way: A Conversation with Franck Cappello, Charles Babbage Award Recipient

BRIEF HISTORY OF CONFERENCE

The IPDPS conference originated in 1986 as an activity of the Orange County (California) Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society Chapter. The founders of the first International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS) were primarily engineers from the semiconductor field and academics interested in computer architecture and high performance processing, looking to solve problems of computation through architectural and software innovation.

HISTORY OF THE IPDPS CHARLES BABBAGE AWARD

In 1989, the conference established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. It was named for Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871), an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer and was considered a "father" of the computer. (Reference: Wikipedia)

In almost all cases, the award was given to one of the invited keynote speakers at the conference. The selection was made by the steering committee chairs, upon recommendation from the Program Chair and General Chair who were responsible for the technical program of the conference, including inviting the speakers. It was presented immediately following the selected speaker's presentation at the conference, and he or she was given a plaque that specified the nature of their special contribution to the field being recognized by IPDPS.

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