6.1.3 Awards Nomination Process   - approved 6/99 -

The Communications Society's Awards Committee retains responsibility for the ultimate selection of winning papers and for the functioning of the awards process. It coordinates the nomination and decision processes and orders and awards certificates, plaques, and checks.

Journals Editors-in-Chief have responsibility for generating short nomination lists for the Abraham, Bennett, and Rice prizes. These lists are the major basis for decisions of the Awards Committee. Nominations are solicited by each Editor-in-Chief from that Journals Editorial Board, from guest editors, and from the readership. Nominations may be solicited in a published notice. The nominations received are screened and reduced to a short list by a committee of the Editorial Board that is appointed by the Editor-in-Chief.

A short nomination list for the Ellersick Prize is prepared under the direction of the Chair of Magazines Paper Awards Selection Committee in consulation and with the approval of the Magazines Editors-in-Chief. The short nominaton list for the Best Tutorial Paper Award is prepared by consensus of all of the Editors-in-Chief and Directors of Magazines anf Journals based on recommendations from their prize paper committees.

The short nomination lists for all five prizes are to be submitted to the Communications Society Awards Committee no later than February 15th of the year following the year for which papers are considered.

Under normal circumstances, award presentations will be made at ICC each year.

IEEE Awards

The IEEE sponsors three paper awards, two of which overlap with the Communications Society awards.

W. R. G. Baker Award recognizes an outstanding original paper published in the past year in any IEEE journal, transactions, proceedings, or magazine.

Donald G. Fink Award recognizes an outstanding survey or tutorial paper published in the past year in any IEEE journal, transactions, proceedings, or magazine.