SAN FRANCISCO, CA –– February 28, 2024 –– For more than 60 years, the future of innovation for the design and automation of electronic systems has been found at the Design Automation Conference (DAC). This year will be no different. DAC is now accepting nominations for several highly prestigious awards – The Under 40 Innovators award, the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering award, and the Most Influential Paper award. All three awards are sponsored by DAC, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
From beyond the traditional automation of chip implementation, design automation is rapidly expanding to new areas such as AI, neuromorphic computing, biological systems, cyber-security and cyber- physical systems. Within the electronics industry, the advent of new technologies and alternate scaling approaches using new integration methods are emerging. A diverse community of young innovators and influencers is redefining and shaping the future of the design automation field in industry, research labs, start-ups and academia, and DAC wants to recognize the best and brightest.
This year’s honorees (to be announced prior to DAC) will be presented with the award at the 61st DAC Award Ceremony, being held at Moscone West Center in San Francisco, CA from June 24 – 27, 2024.
Under 40 Innovators Award
The Under 40 Innovators Award is open to people in industry or academia with technical contributions of notable impact in the field of design and automation of electronics. Nominees are individuals who have made their contributions through work within an organization to the design automation community and to the broader society. The award is intended for specific contributions such as commercial products, software or hardware systems, or specific algorithms or tools incorporated into other systems widely used by industry members and academia. Nominations that emphasize only metrics such as number of publications, patents, and citations will not be sufficient. The impact, as measured by commercialization and/or wide adoption, of the nominee’s contributions is required.
DAC awards up to five recipients each year. The nomination for this award should include a one-page summary (fewer than 500 words) of the nominee’s technical work with specific emphasis on the impact of the work, a cover page with the email address, daytime telephone number and date of birth of the nominee. All nominations should be supported by at least three letters of recommendation. One of those letters of recommendation must be from a leader inside the nominee’s organization. Self-nominations are not allowed.
Nominations must be received by March 31, 2024. For more information and to submit visit: https://www.dac.com/About/DAC-Under-40-Award
Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Award:
For more than two decades, the Marie R. Pistilli Award, named for the former organizer of DAC who passed away in 2015, has been honoring those individuals who have helped advance the profile of women in the electronics industry and made significant overall contributions.
The Marie R. Pistilli Award honors a person in the semiconductor-related industry or academia his or her support and advancement of women in the related industries. Nominees may hail from technical or non-technical backgrounds and must be individuals who have made notable contributions to advancing the profile of women in EDA. Past recipients have played key roles in creating, launching, or managing products that involved contributions from women or created opportunities for women in the industry. Some have been leaders within a company or organization helping to raise the awareness of women, while others have been mentors or role models for successful women in technology.
Nominations must be received by March 31, 2024. For more information and to submit visit: https://www.dac.com/About/Women-in-Technology
The Most Influential Paper Award
DAC’s Most Influential Paper Award recognizes papers that have demonstrated substantial academic and/or industrial impact since they were published. This award was first presented during the 60th DAC to papers published in the first four decades of DAC.
Any DAC Research Paper published between (and including) the years of 2000 and 2019 is eligible. View all published DAC Research Papers here. Invited or survey papers or presentations are not eligible for this award.
Nominations must be received by April 1, 2024. For more information and to submit visit: https://www.dac.com/About/DAC-Most-Influential-Paper-Award
About DAC
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for electronic design automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community, representing more than 1,000 organizations, attends each year. This includes system designers and architects, logic and circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD managers, senior managers and executives to researchers and academicians from leading universities. More than 80 technical sessions selected by a committee of electronic design experts offer information on recent developments and trends, management practices and new products, methodologies and technologies. A highlight of DAC is its exhibition and suite area with approximately 150 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon, intellectual property (IP) and design services providers. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM SIGDA) and IEEE’s Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).
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