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ROB SHOSTAK, PRINCIPAL FOUNDER AND CTO OF VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS, WINS THE EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA PRIZE IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTINGCupertino, Calif. (July 25, 2005) — Rob Shostak, principal founder and CTO of Vocera Communications, was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. The 2005 Dijkstra Prize was awarded at the conference of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing, July 17–20, 2005, Las Vegas, Nev.
Dr. Shostak was presented with the 2005 Edsger W. Dijkstra award for his work with Marshall Pease and Leslie Lamport on “Reaching agreement in the presence of faults,” published in the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery, 27(2):228-234, April 1980.
“I am honored to receive the distinguished Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize for Distributed Computing,” said Dr. Shostak.
Dr. Shostak’s paper provided the first fault-tolerant algorithms for the problem that, following later work by the same authors, became known as Byzantine agreement, and provided the well-known tight bound of n/3 on the number of faults that could be tolerated in Byzantine agreement problems. The Byzantine agreement problem quickly became one of the most widely studied problems in distributed computing, with applications throughout the field of computer science.
About the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize
The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is awarded for an outstanding paper on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade. The prize is named for Edsger W. Dijsktra, a pioneer in the area of distributed computing.
About Vocera Communications
Vocera Communications has created a wireless communications system to enhance customer service productivity and teamwork throughout organizations by enabling instant voice communication among mobile workers. The company, headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., was founded in March 2000. For more information, please contact the company at (408) 882-5100 or visit the Web site at www.vocera.com.
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