Obituary for Mihai Patrascu

Mihai Patrascu, aged 29, passed away on Tuesday June 5, 2012, after a 1.5 year battle with brain cancer. Mihai's carreer was short but explosive, full of rich and beautiful ideas as witnessed, e.g., in his 20 STOC/FOCS papers.

Manfred Kudlek passed away

Manfred Kudlek suddenly passed away on June 18, 2012.
He died as a result of a heart attack in a coach to Bletchley Park during the excursion of CiE'2012.

The Gödel Prize 2012 - Laudatio

The Gödel Prize 2012 for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science is awarded jointly to the following three papers:

Elias Koutsoupias and Christos H. Papadimitriou: Worst-case equilibria,Computer Science Review, 3(2): 65-69, 2009.
Tim Roughgarden and Éva Tardos: How Bad Is Selfish Routing?,Journal of the ACM, 49(2): 236-259, 2002.
Noam Nisan and Amir Ronen: Algorithmic Mechanism Design,Games and Economic Behavior 35: 166-196, 2001.
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Presburger Award 2012

The Presburger Award Committee 2012, consisting of Monika Henzinger, Antonin Kucera, and Stefano Leonardi (chair) has unanimously decided to propose Venkatesan Guruswami (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and Mihai Patrascu (AT&T Labs, New York) as joint recipients of the 2012 EATCS Presburger Award for young scientists. (pdf)

The EATCS Award 2012 - Laudatio for Moshe Vardi

The EATCS Awards Committee consisting of Leslie Ann Goldberg, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Eugenio Moggi (chair), has unanimously decided to give the EATCS Award to Professor Moshe Vardi. (pdf)