Laudatio 2013 SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing awarded to Andrzej Pelc

摘要

It is a pleasure to award the 2013 SIROCCO prize for innovation in distributed computing to Andrzej Pelc. The award is given for his significant contribution to communication paradigms for information dissemination. Let us briefly review this as well as some other major contributions and achievements of Andrzej, with a focus on those related to his many SIROCCO papers. (Notably, Andrzej coauthored 13 SIROCCO papers during the past two decades).