Graduate Advised by Nau Wins 2014 Gödel Prize
Amnon Lotem, a computer science doctoral graduate who was advised by Dana Nau, a professor of computer science with an affiliate appointment in UMIACS, won the 2014 Gödel Prize.
The award, which recognizes outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, is presented by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and ACM’s Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). The paper, “Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware,” was co-authored by Lotem, who currently serves as an algorithms and technologies expert in the Israeli high-tech industry, and two others.
Lotem and the other authors will be recognized at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP)July 7-11, in Copenhagen, Denmark.