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<p class="MsoNormal">please consider the following call for nominations for the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award that aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system
analysis in general. The award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016, and the nomination submission deadline is September 30, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nominations, or questions about the application process, should be sent by e-mail to nominations@spec.org. More information is available at https://research.spec.org/awards/call-for-nominations.html<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christoph Heger<o:p></o:p></p>
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