[fg-arc] VL/HCC Most Influential Paper Award - Call for Nominations

[Mark Minas]

[Apologies should you receive multiple copies of this call.]

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                       Call for Nominations
                       
                VL/HCC Most Influential Paper Award

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Dear Colleague,
 
This year the VL/HCC community is continuing the tradition of honoring
research papers whose appearance in this conference had important influences
on VL/HCC research or commerce (see http://conferences.computer.org/VLHCC/).
Because having an important influence can only be determined over time, the 
papers being nominated must be from past decades.
 
We have two award categories:

Most Influential Paper (1) from 10 years ago (+/- 1 year), namely fully
refereed papers that appeared at:
    VL/HCC 2004 (Rome, Italy)
    VL/HCC 2005 (Dallas, Texas, USA)
    VL/HCC 2006 (Brighton, UK)
 
VL/HCC 2004: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=9450
VL/HCC 2005: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10093
VL/HCC 2006: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=11158
 
and Most Influential Paper (2) from 20 years ago (+/- 1 year):
    VL 1994 (St Louis, Missouri, USA)
    VL 1995 (Darmstadt, Germany)
    VL 1996 (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
 
VL 1994: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=2947
VL 1995: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4002
VL 1996: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=3922
 
We need your help in nominating papers from either or both of these categories
that have had a truly important, long-term impact on VL/HCC research or
commerce. As the long-term visionary group, we think you're more likely than
anyone to know of well qualified papers. Please nominate some!
 
This is an important award to our community. It's a way to help us attain
recognition for our field and for the most important works that have appeared
in our conference. We hope it will also be motivational and inspiring for
younger researchers.
 
To nominate a paper, just send an email containing answers to the following
questions to:
 
    vlhcc15mip at gmail.com
 
The questions/criteria are:
 
1. VL full paper title and authors (must be a refereed full paper at VL, HCC, 
   or VL/HCC -- not a keynote, not a panel, not a short paper, etc.)
2. What year did the paper appear?
3. What was the paper's big, long-term, or unique impact on VL/HCC research or 
   commerce?
4. The paper awarded can win the award in one of these two ways:
    4a. It is the only, or first, or first important paper on the influential
        topic.
    4b. It is just one of a sequence of papers published multiple places that 
        had a big influence on VL/HCC research or commerce. 
   Which of the above was it -- 4a or 4b? Please explain.

However, if there have been multiple communities where the work has been
published, the research needs to be strongly situated in the VL/HCC community
by virtue of many papers on the topic having been published at VL/HCC. Of
course, the nominated paper must satisfy all the other above criteria as well.
 
Note: Concrete evidence of impact would be very helpful (eg, Google Scholar
citation counts, etc.).
 
Deadline for nominations is:
 
    Wednesday, May 20, 2015
 
It would be helpful to have them earlier though.
 
Many thanks,
 
John Grundy and Mark Minas
(2015 VL/HCC MIP Task Force)