2022 Alonzo Church Award: Call for Nominations

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The 2022 Alonzo Church Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation

INTRODUCTION

An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions
to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest
Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer
Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt Goedel Society (KGS). The award is for an
outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers
published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact
and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given
to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the
research. For the rules governing this award, see
https://siglog.org/alonzo-church-award/,
https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award/, and
https://www.eacsl.org/alonzo-church-award/ .

The 2021 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Georg Gottlob, Christoph
Koch, Reinhard Pichler, Luc Segoufin and Klaus U. Schulz for their ground-
breaking work on logic-based web-data extraction, and querying tree-structured
data. Lists containing this and all previous winners can be found through the
links above.

ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS

The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the
past 25 years. Thus, for the 2022 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1997.
When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of
the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the
contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as
the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Goedel Prize. (The nominee(s)
may have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution
can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a
preference.

Nominations for the 2022 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter
must summarize the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and
outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-
nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation (up
to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; and
a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination.
Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence
of worthiness.

Nominations should be submitted to rjagadee@depaul.edu by April 2, 2022.

PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD

The 2022 award will be presented at the Federated Logic Conference 2022, which
is scheduled to take place in Haifa, Israel in July/August 2022. The award will
be accompanied by an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the
award winners. The awardee(s) will receive a  certificate and a cash prize of
USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared.

AWARD COMMITTEE

The 2022 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five members:
Thomas Colcombet, Mariangiola Dezani, Javier Esparza, Radha Jagadeesan (chair),
and Igor Walukiewicz.