Hans Karlsson Awardfor Leadership and Achievement Through

Collaboration

Final report from

HKA Chair: Dave SchultzNovember 7, 2007

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HKA Criteria

“in recognition of outstanding skills and dedication to diplomacy, team facilitation and joint achievement in areas of the computer industry where individual aspirations, corporate, and organizational rivalry could otherwise be counter to the common good”

• Outstanding skills and dedication to diplomacy• Team facilitation• Joint achievement• In development or promotion of CS standards

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Past Awardees (1 of 2)• 1996 Leonard L. Tripp (S2ESC) "For your long-term

service and leadership of the IEEE Computer Society Software Engineering Committee (SESC) and related activities“

• 2001 Victor Hayes (LMSC) "For your dedication to the advancement of technologies and their use in a wide area of segments, markets, and applications benefiting all our lives“

• 2002 H. Wayne Hodgins (LTSC) "For your extraordinary leadership and vision that led to the first learning technology standard and that was instrumental in moving an entire industry to pursue a standards-based rather than a proprietary approach"

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Past Awardees (2 of 2)• 2004 David B. Gustavson (MMSC) "For outstanding

leadership in Standards and for your insight, organization, and political astuteness in bringing the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) (IEEE 1596-1992) to fruition, significantly advancing the art and science of scalable systems"

• 2005 Yervant Zorian (TTSC) "For outstanding leadership, communications, and achievement with the IEEE Testability Method for Embedded Core-based ICs standard (IEEE Std. 1500-2005) through collaboration with major industry groups“

• 2006 Jack Cole (IASC and SSSC) "For bringing together diverse interests with inspired leadership, dedication, and vision in producing five storage system standards, and forming the first information assurance standards committee“

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HKA Committee

• Dennis Brophy, DASC

• Jack Cole, IASC and SSSC

• Jim Isaak, POSIX

• Gary Robinson, MMSC

• Geoff Thompson, LMSC

• John Walz, SAB Chair (past HKA chair)

• Dave Schultz, S2ESC (chair)

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Controls

• IEEE-CS P&P Section 13 Awards

• IEEE-CS Award Committee Handbook rules and guidance

• Exercised extreme caution to maintain confidentiality in our deliberations

• Committee diversity & professional experience & past Awardee

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Committee Methods• Phone calls, with email follow-up

• “Just in time” – deadline pressure

• Encouraged HKA committee members to recruit nominators

• John Walz collected the most salient points from all the paperwork into a single table

• Informal rankings to understand starting points

• Conference call for final ranking

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Input Sources• Award Web site• CS Sponsors:

– DASC– FIPA– IASC – LMSC (802)– LTSC– MMSC– PASC– S2ESC– SISO-SAC– SSSC– TTSC

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Inputs

• Last year, two nominations were submitted

• This year, six people expressed interest in submitting Nominations

• Five Nominations actually submitted– With their 17 Endorsements– 5 endorsements for one; 3 for others

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Success Keys (1 of 2)

• Earlier due date worked well– Some nominations came in quite early; the last one was still

down to the wire

• This year, we had no complaints about the performance of the Awards website– Nobody reported losing the text they had

submitted

• Each of the nominators understood and followed the Awards process– We didn’t need to reeducate anyone

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Success Keys (2 of 2)

• The size of the committee (seven members) seemed about right– Several of the HKA committee members knew most, or even

all, of the candidates; others didn’t know any very well

• Pam Kemper (IEEE Awards staff) did an excellent job of forwarding submissions promptly and setting our telecon

• All committee members did their homework– As a result, we were able to complete our telecon

in less than the two hours that we had scheduled

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Challenges (1 of 2)

• One of the endorsers claimed not to have received instructions for how to submit his endorsement– Perhaps he inadvertently deleted the email– It might be helpful if the Awards website could

send out reminder emails – with the URL – to delinquent endorsers

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Challenges (2 of 2)

• We need to provide guidance to prospective nominators on what constitutes a good submission– Some of the nominations and endorsements were

very brief– Others didn’t address the key qualifications for this

award• The Awards website still has some editorial

problems– But these are relatively minor (lost formatting,

random exclamation points, broken words)

HKA Committee Recommendation

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