Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2016-09-01 Professor Steve Blackburn from the Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Computer Science has been placed among the world’s best computer scientists, after being named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In total, 53 ACM members were elevated to Fellow level in 2016, with Professor Blackburn joining Professor Gernot Heiser and between them they make up 2/3 of all the ACM Fellows currently employed in Australia More

Distinguished Paper Award at the 2016 OOPSLA Conference
2016-08-30 Tony Hosking received a Distinguished Paper Award at the 2016 OOPSLA Conference. The paper, Hybrid STM/HTM for Nested Transactions on OpenJDK, was a collaboration with ANU, Purdue University, and the University of Massachusetts More

Most Influential Paper of 2016 Award

2016-07-20 Steve Blackburn & Tony Hosking receive Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) Most Influential Paper of 2016 Award for The DaCapo benchmarks: Java benchmarking development and analysis paper. This is an award instituted by SIGPLAN－ACM’s Special Interest Group on Programming Languages formally ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential Paper of OOPSLA 2006. SIGPLAN awards only 4 of these awards each year, one for each of the major SIGPLAN conferences (POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA). More

ICT Researcher of the Year award Nov 2016
2016-04-20 Gernot Heiser won the ICT Researcher of the Year award of the South-East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) at the Re-imagination Summit in Sydney More

Australian Academy Of Technology and Engineering Fellows for 2016
2016-03-14 Gernot Heiser has also been elected one of the twenty-five new Australian Academy Of Technology and Engineering Fellows for 2016.