Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. The program committee of the Twenty-Seventh IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity is delighted to present the 2012 Ronald V. Book Prize for the Best Student Paper to Andrew Drucker for his paper "Limitations of Lower-Bound Methods for the Wire Complexity of Boolean Operators" The award is given annually to the most outstanding paper written solely by one or more students, and is named after theoretical computer scientist Ronald Vernon Book (1937-1997). xiivi