UT Computer Science's Professor Emeritus Jayadev Misra and Caltech's Mani Chandi have won the 2017 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for "seminal contributions to distributed and parallel programming, including the development of the UNITY formalism.” According to the IEEE Awards Committee, the Goode Award recognizes “a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period.” Past recipients include a pantheon of outstanding computer scientists, including Edsger Dijkstra and Tony Hoare.
The Goode Award was established to recognize achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period.