[DFSci] Call for Nominations : 2010 Privacy Enhancing Technology Award

[Frank Adelstein]

[Forwarding this from Simson Garfinkel.  --Frank.]

Call for Nominations

[Please forward and distribute]
You are invited to submit nominations to the 2010 PET Award.

The PET Award is presented annually to researchers who have made an
outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or
deployment of privacy enhancing technology. It is awarded at the annual
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).

The PET Award carries a prize of 3000 USD thanks to the generous support
of Microsoft. The crystal prize itself is offered by the Office of the
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.

Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing
technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have
appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings
published in the period from August 1st, 2008 until May 31st, 2010.

The complete Award rules including eligibility requirements can be found
at http://petsymposium.org/award/rules.php.

Anyone can nominate a paper by sending an email message containing the
following to award-chairs10 at petsymposium.org:

.	Paper title
.	Author(s)
.	Author(s) contact information
.	Publication venue and full reference
.	A nomination statement of no more than 500 words.

All nominations must be submitted by May 31st, 2010. An Award committee
will select one or two winners among the nominations received. Winners
must be present at the PET Symposium in order to receive the Award. This
requirement can be waived only at the discretion of the PET Advisory
board.

More information about the PET award (including past winners) is available
at http://petsymposium.org/award/

More information about the 2010 PET Symposium is available at
http://petsymposium.org/2010.