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Awards and Honors

^ Sarita Adve
Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 1994-1997
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1995-1998
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 1997-
IBM Partnership Award, 1997-1999
Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan, 1998-2000
Coauthor of a paper chosen as one of forty-one for an anthology of selected papers from the first twenty-five International Symposia on Computer Architecture (Sohi, editor), ACM Press, 1998

^ Gul A. Agha
Incentive for Excellence Award, Digital Equipment Corporation Faculty Program, 1989-1992
Young Investigator Award, U.S. Office of Naval Research, 1990-1993
Fellow, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1992
International Lecturer, Association for Computing Machinery, 1992-1997
Editor, ACM Computer Survey, 1995-
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, 1995-1996
Editor, Theory and Practice of Object Systems, 1995-
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Concurrency, 1997-1998
Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society, 1999
Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1999

^ Geneva G. Belford, Emeritus
Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society, 1982-1985
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1986
Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, Dad's Association, U of I, 1991

^ Gerald DeJong
Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence

^ Jeffrey G. Erickson
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 2001
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, C. W. Gear, 2001

^ Michael Faiman, Emeritus
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1988

^ H. George Friedman, Jr., Emeritus
Individual Plans of Study Outstanding Service Award, U of I College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1986
Certificate of Merit, Outstanding Faculty Member, U of I Dad's Association, 1988
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1991, 1992

^ Mehdi T. Harandi
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Expert Systems: Research and Applications, 1986-
Certificate of Appreciation, Conference on Expert Systems Technology in the ADP Environment, 1987
Best Paper Award, 3rd International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering, 1989
Best Paper Award, 5th Conference on Knowledge-based Software Assistant, 1990
Editor, Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 1992-
Recognition of Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1997

^ Michael T. Heath
Editor, International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications, 1993-
Editor, SIAM Review, 1994-
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1988
ACM Fellow, 2000

^ Laxmikant V. Kale
NCR Award of Excellence, 1989
C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, U of I Department of Computer Science, 1990

^ Samuel N. Kamin
Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award, U of I College of Engineering, 2001

^ David J. Kriegman
Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1992
Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996
Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society, 1996
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1997-
Best Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision, 1998
Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2000-
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 2000-

^ David J. Kuck, Emeritus
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1982-1983
Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1986
Emanuel R. Piore Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1987
Alumni Merit Award, Northwestern University, 1989

^ Duncan H. Lawrie, Emeritus
Board of Directors, Computing Research Association
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Past President, IEEE Computer Society
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1980
Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1993
Editor-in-Chief, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994-1997
Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award, Purdue University, 1996

^ Chung L. Liu, Emeritus
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1983
Certificate of Merit, U of I Dads Association, 1983
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1983
University Scholar, U of I, 1985
Alumni Achievement Award, Cheng Kung University, 1986
Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 1986
Faculty Achievement Award, Burlington Northern Foundation, 1987
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1987
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, U of I, 1988
Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, Association of Computing Machinery, 1990
Meritorious Service Certificate, IEEE Computer Society, 1991
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1992
Taylor L. Booth Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1992
Education Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1994

^ Jane W. S. Liu, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1991
Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, U of I, 1999

^ Saburo Muroga
Honorary Member, Information Processing Society of Japan
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distinguished Visitor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1988-1990
Contribution Award, Information Processing Society of Japan, 1991
Honorary Member, Information Processing Society of Japan, 1998

^ Klara Nahrstedt
Weierstrass Prize, Weierstrass Institute of Mathematics, Berlin, 1985
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1996
Campus Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction Using Educational Technologies, U of I, 2000

^ David Padua
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1992
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Supercomputing, 1995
Fellow, IEEE, 2000

^ Jean A. Ponce
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1993, 1998
Area Editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 1994-
Beckman Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1994-1995
Critical Research Initiative Planning Award, U of I, 1996
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics Research, 1998-

^ Daniel A. Reed
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1984
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1987
Beckman Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1989
University Scholar, U of I, 1989
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1991
Gutgsell Professorship, Fall 2000-Fall 2005

^ Edward M. Reingold, Emeritus
Fellow, Association of Computing Machinery

^ Dan Roth
Best Paper, 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999
IBM Faculty Equipment Award, 1999
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000
C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, U of I Department of Computer Science, 2000
Xerox Award for Junior Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 2001

^ Lui Sha
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

^ Robert D. Skeel
Editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 1985-
Profesor Visitante Iberdrola, Universidad de Valladolid, 1994-1996

^ Josep Torrellas
Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 1993-1996
Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1994-1999
Intel Research Council Award, 1995, 1996, 1998
C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, U of I Department of Computer Science, 1997
IBM Partnership Award, 1997-1999
Junior Xerox Award for Outstanding Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1997
Senior Xerox Award for Outstanding Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 2000
Vice-Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), 2000

^ Pravin M. Vaidya
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1990
Beckman Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1991
Fellow, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1991
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1991

^ Marianne S. Winslett
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1989
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1989, 1997
University Scholar, U of I, 1992
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 1994-
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Management, 1994-
Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 1994-
Stanley H. Pierce Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1999


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