Call for nominations: A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in electronic design automation

The ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation are calling for nominations for the 2nd Annual A Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation. The Award is to honor a person or persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years before the presentation of the award at the Design Automation Conference 2010. The award is based on the impact of the paper´s contribution. Criteria: The award shall be based on impact of the paper in the field of electronic design automation published ten years or more before the year the award is presented. The paper must have passed through a peer-review process before publication, be an archived conference or journal publication available from or published by either ACM or IEEE, and be a seminal paper where an original idea was first described. Follow-up papers and extended descriptions of the work may be cited in the nomination, but the award is given for the initial original contribution.