Call for nominations - A Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation

The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation and the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation are calling for nominations for the 3rd 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 2011 Design Automation Conference. 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.