Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Jean-Yves L'Excellent co-created the MUMPS technologies start-up and left the team to work full time for MUMPS technologies.

• Grégoire Pichon joined the team as an Associate Professor of University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1.

• Anne Benoit was elected chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing.

• Anne Benoit received on February 2019 the award for Editorial Excellence as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems during 2018.

• Yves Robert received the 2020 IEEE-CS Charles Babbage Award for contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques. This award covers all aspects of parallel computing including computational aspects, novel applications, parallel algorithms, theory of parallel computation, parallel computing technologies, among others. Further information about the award, including a list of past recipients, may be found at https://www.computer.org/web/awards/charles-babbage. The award consists of a $1,000 honorarium, certificate, and the invitation to present a paper and/or presentation at the annual IEEE-CS International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).