Hans Karlsson Award for Leadership and Achievement Through Collaboration

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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 PP 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 didnt 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 didnt
  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 didnt 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)

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HKA Committee Recommendation

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