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COMPUTER SOCIETY CONNECTION<br />
Ken Birman Wins<br />
Kanai Award<br />
Ken Birman<br />
is a founding<br />
member of<br />
TRUST, a<br />
consortium<br />
that explores<br />
challenges in trustworthy <strong>computing</strong>.<br />
Kenneth P. Birman, N.<br />
Rama Rao Professor<br />
at Cornell University,<br />
recently received the<br />
IEEE Computer Society’s 2009<br />
Tsutomu Kanai Award. The award<br />
recognizes major contributions to<br />
state-of-the art distributed <strong>computing</strong><br />
systems and their applications.<br />
Birman was recognized “for funda-<br />
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mental and practical contributions<br />
to distributed <strong>computing</strong>, fault tolerance,<br />
reliability and distributed<br />
systems management.”<br />
Birman’s work has focused on the<br />
development of trustworthy distributed<br />
<strong>computing</strong> systems. Early in his<br />
career, he developed the Isis Toolkit, a<br />
reliable group communication system<br />
that introduced the virtual synchrony<br />
model for fault tolerance. The widely<br />
adopted Isis was at the core of such<br />
mission-critical systems as the<br />
French air traffic control system, the<br />
New York Stock Exchange, and the US<br />
Navy’s Aegis-class warships.<br />
Birman’s group subsequently<br />
developed a series of systems that<br />
explored challenges of extreme<br />
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scale using gossip and peer-topeer<br />
protocols. These included<br />
Horus, Ensemble, Bimodal Multicast,<br />
the Astrolabe platform, and<br />
the Gossip Objects platform. Ideas<br />
and technology from these efforts<br />
have helped shape modern cloud<br />
<strong>computing</strong> systems, including<br />
the communication layer of IBM’s<br />
flagship WebSphere product, Microsoft’s<br />
cluster management platform,<br />
and Amazon’s data-center management<br />
systems.<br />
Birman became a Fellow of the<br />
ACM in 1998 and won the 2009<br />
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and<br />
Distributed Systems Outstanding<br />
Achievement Award.<br />
Tsutomu Kanai Award<br />
The Tsutomu Kanai Award was<br />
established in 1997 by an endowment<br />
from Hitachi in honor of its<br />
president. The award consists of<br />
a crystal model, certificate, and<br />
$10,000 honorarium. The IEEE<br />
Computer Society Awards Committee<br />
considers the seminal nature<br />
of the achievements, their practical<br />
impact, breadth, and depth, as<br />
well as the quality of the nomination.<br />
The awards honor technical<br />
achievements as well as service<br />
to the computer profession and to<br />
the Society. Birman will accept his<br />
award at the Computer Society’s<br />
2010 awards ceremony in Denver.<br />
The deadline to make a nomination<br />
for the 2010 Tsutomu Kanai<br />
Award is 15 October. For more information,<br />
visit www.computer.org/<br />
portal/web/awards/kanai.<br />
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