William C. Carter Award

The William C. Carter Award has been presented annually since 1997 to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research. The award honors the late William C. Carter, a key figure in the formation and development of the field of dependable computing. Bill Carter\´s career spanned over four decades, from programming, debugging, and recovery in ENIAC, through reliability, availability and serviceability during the evolution and definition of IBM mainframes. In particular, he took great interest in the future of the field and was instrumental in promoting the work of young contributors. It was characteristic of Bill to take the initiative in reaching out to students and younger colleagues. The William C. Carter Award is intended to honor and carry on his legacy. The award is sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing (TC-FTC) and IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (WG 10.4). To qualify, a paper based on the student\´s Ph.D. dissertation must have been accepted within the main technical track of DSN 2015 as a regular paper with the student as the first author. Both current and former graduate students, no more than two years past completion of their dissertations, are eligible. All nominated submissions accepted as regular papers are evaluated by the Steering Committee of the Conference. One or two papers are selected each year to receive this award out of the hundreds submitted. We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2015 Carter Award is Dmitrii Kuvaiskii with the following paper: "Δ-encoding: Practical Encoded Processing" Dmitrii Kuvaiskii and Christof Fetzer