Abstract :
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.
