Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Algorithms (ACM TALG)

ACM TALG (webpage: http://talg.acm.org/) publishes original research of the highest quality dealing with algorithms. It is a peer-reviewed journal, appearing quarterly. Specific areas of computation covered by the journal are listed at http://talg.acm.org/Aims.html.

ATMOS 2020 - Call for papers

ATMOS 2020 20th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems 7-8 September 2020, Pisa, Italy - part of ALGO 2020 http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/ATMOS2020/index.html

Submission deadline: 24 June 2020

EATCS honours three outstanding PhD theses with the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2019

EATCS is proud to announce that, after examining the nominations received from our research community, the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee 2019, consisting of David Peleg (chair), Susanne Albers, Elvira Mayordomo, Dale Miller, Jaroslav Nesetril, Damian Niwinski and Vladimiro Sassone , has selected the following three theses as recipients of the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2019:

2020 Dijkstra Prize Award

The 2020 Dijkstra Prize Award Committee concluded its deliberations and we are happy to announce that the paper

Computation in networks of passively mobile finite-state sensors, Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Zoe Diamadi, Michael J. Fischer, and Rene Peralta, Distributed Computing 18(4): 235-253 (2006)

was selected as the winner of the 2020 ACM-EATCS Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.

The Gödel Prize 2020 - Laudation

The 2020 Gödel Prize is awarded to Robin A. Moser and Gábor Tardos for their algorithmic version of the Lovász Local Lemma in the paper:

“A constructive proof of the general Lovász Local Lemma," Journal of the ACM 57(2): 11:1-11:15 (2010).

EATCS Fellows class of 2020 named

The EATCS has recognized three of its members for their outstanding contributions to theoretical computer science by naming them as recipients of an EATCS fellowship.