Primates Social Impact Award 2016

Letter from the 2016 IEEE TCDE Impact Award Winner

In March I received the following news by e-mail: “...on behalf of the IEEE TCDE I am delighted to inform you that the TCDE Award Committee has awarded you the IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering, and Education) and Impact Award for this year ‘for leadership and research excellence in building impactful data management systems, engineering tools, products, and practices’.” I was very ...

2016 Terasima Award

The Ackermann Award 2016

The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. It is presented during the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL’xx). This contribution reports on the 2016 edition of the award. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.3 Logics and Meanings of Programs, F.4 Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

The Davida Teller Award Lecture, 2016

Research in the Visual Development Unit on "dorsal stream vulnerability' (DSV) arose from research in two somewhat different areas. In the first, using cortical milestones for local and global processing from our neurobiological model, we identified cerebral visual impairment in infants in the first year of life. In the second, using photo/videorefraction in population refractive screening prog...

Davida Teller Award Lecture 2016: Prologue.

A visual scientist might be considered successful for making inroads into one problem area. Davida Teller stood out for at least three: her contributions to models of visual detection and discrimination, to theoretical discussions of psychophysical linking hypotheses, and to the creation of the modern science of visual development in infants. She received multiple honors, including the Friedenw...