DoC Professor is awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award

Professor Jeff Kramer has been selected as this year’s recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his significant and extensive service to the Software Engineering community.

Professor Jeff Kramer has been selected as this year’s recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his significant and extensive service to the Software Engineering community.

Jeff is Senior Dean to the College and a Professor of Computing here in the Department of Computing. He was Dean of Enginereeing from 2006 to 2009 and Head of Department from 1999 to 2004. He was a principal investigator in the various research projects which led to the development of the CONIC environment for configuration programming and the Darwin architectural description language which is used in commercialised form by Philips for the software for high end television sets. His current research work is on behaviour analysis, the use of models in requirements elaboration and architectural approaches to self-managing adaptive software systems.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the BCS, a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and a Fellow of the ACM. He was winner of the Most Influential Paper Award at ICSE 2003, and was awarded the 2005 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for significant and lasting research contributions to Software Engineering. He was Program Chair of the 21st ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) in Los Angeles in 1999, and General Chair of the 32nd ICSE in Cape Town in 2010. He was a member of the editorial board of ACM TOSEM from 1995 to 2001 and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) from 2006 to 2009. He is co-author of a book on Concurrency, co-author of a previous book on Distributed Systems and Computer Networks, and the author of over 200 journal and conference publications.

The award will be presented at the 33rd ICSE in Hawaii in May 2011. Well done Jeff on this fully deserved award.