Something to think about for Blitz++:
From: Sven Hammerling <sven@nag.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:50:30 +0100
Subject: Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
THE WILKINSON PRIZE FOR NUMERICAL SOFTWARE
In honour of the outstanding contributions of James Hardy Wilkinson to
the field of numerical software, Argonne National Laboratory, the
National Physical Laboratory, and the Numerical Algorithms Group award a
numerical software prize of US $1000. The 1991 prize was awarded to
Linda Petzold for DASSL at the International Conference in Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 91) and the 1995 prize was awarded to
Chris Bischof and Alan Carle for ADIFOR 2.0 at ICIAM 95.
The 1999 prize will be awarded at ICIAM 99 in Edinburgh, July 5-9, 1999.
Rules for Submission:
Each author of an entry must be under 40 years of age on January 1, 1999. Each
entry must contain the following:
o Software written in a widely available high-level programming language.
o A paper describing the algorithm and the software implementation.
The paper should give an analysis of the algorithm and indicate any
special programming features.
o Documentation of the software which describes its purpose and method of
use.
o Examples of use of the software, including a test program and data.
o A one or two page summary of the main features of the algorithm and
software implementation.
Submissions must be in English. Entries must be received by November 2, 1998.
Selection Criteria:
The award will be made to the entry that best addresses all phases of the
preparation of high quality numerical software, including:
o clarity of the paper and software implementation and documentation;
o portability, reliability, efficiency and usability of the software
implementation;
o depth of analysis of the algorithm and the software;
o importance of application addressed by the software; and
o quality of the test software.
Submissions:
Submissions should, if possible, be in the form of a uuencoded, gzipped,
tar archive. Submissions should include a README file describing the
contents of the archive and Makefiles for executing the test programs.
Submissions can be sent by email to wilkinson-prize@nag.co.uk.
Contact this address for further information and for alternate modes of
submission.
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