Jean-Claude Award in Dependable Computing

The IFIP 10.4 working group on Dependable Computing created the award in his honor in 2011. It recognizes outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of Dependable Computing. For 2015, the award committee decided to recognize a seminal paper in the award´s impact categories: A.L. Hopkins, Jr., T.B. Smith, III, and J.H. Lala, for "FTMP - A higllly reliable fault-tolerant multiprocess for aircraft," (Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.66, no.10, pp.1221, 1239, Oct. 1978). Alben Hopkins, Basil Smith and Jay Lala provided in their highly-cited paper the major published account of a project sponsored by the NASA Langley Research Center in the late 1970s to develop safety-critical digital computing systems for commercial flight control.