Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award
The Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award is an annual award in memory of Sir Geoffrey Vickers for outstanding student papers at the pre-doctoral level in the field of the systems sciences. A listing of recipients:
- 1987 Budapest, two awards: Alexander Laszlo; Lynda J. Davies and Paul W.J. Ledington (co-authors)
- 1988 St Louis, J. Donald R. de Raadt
- 1989 Edinburgh, Béla A. Bánáthy
- 1990 Portland, two awards: Sally Goerner; Daune West
- 1991 Sweden, Erin Artigiani, Cliff Joslyn
- 1992 Denver, Sen Suan Tan
- 1993 Australia, Jeremy Chui
- 1994 Asilomar, T. Dahl and Darek Erikson
- 1995 Amsterdam, two awards: Craig Crabtree; Jennifer Wilby
- 1996 Louisville, Parviz Ahari
- 1996 Budapest, No Award
- 1997 Seoul, Korea, No Award
- 1998 Atlanta, Martine Dodds
- 1999 Asilomar, Molly Dwyer and Jane Zimmerman
- 2000 Toronto, two awards: Gabor Horvath; Kathia Laszlo
- 2001 Asilomar, Lynn M. Rasmussen
- 2002 Shanghai, China two awards: Pamela Buckle; K. C. Wang
- 2003 Crete, Sabrina Brahms
- 2004 Asilomar, Janette Young
- 2005 Cancun, Honorato Teissier
- 2006 Sonoma, Hanne Birgitte Jensen
- 2007 Tokyo, Nicholas Magliocca
- 2008 Madison, Devin Wixon
- 2009 Brisbane, Anne Stephens
- 2010 Waterloo, Todd D Bowers
- 2011 Kingston upon Hull, Mary C Edson
- 2012 San Jose, William J. Varey
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