J. H. Wilkinson Prize

J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

In  honor of the outstanding contributions of  Dr. James Hardy Wilkinson to the field of numerical software, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, and the Numerical Algorithms Group award a numerical software prize of US $3000.

The 2007 prize will be awarded at the International Conference in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 07) in Zurich, Switzerland, July 16-20, 2007. The Prize ceremony will take place Monday, July 16 at 6:30 pm.

Rules for Submission

Each author of an entry must be at most 40 years of age by January 1 of the year of submission. Each entry must contain the following:

• Software written in a widely available high-level programming language.
• A paper describing the algorithm and the software implementation. The paper should give an analysis of the algorithm and indicate any special programming features.
• Documentation of the software which describes its purpose and method of use.
• Examples of use of the software, including a test program and data.
• A one- or two-page summary of the main features of the algorithm and software implementation.

Selection Criteria

Submissions must be in English and received by November 3, 2006.

The award will be made to the entry that best addresses all phases of the preparation of high quality numerical software, including the following:

• clarity of the paper and software implementation and documentation;
• portability, reliability, efficiency and usability of the software implementation;
• depth of analysis of the algorithm and the software;
• importance of application addressed by the software; and
• quality of the test software.

Submissions

Each submission should include a README file describing its contents and facilities for executing the test program.

Submissions can be sent by email to wilkinson-prize@npl.co.uk. Contact this address for further information.

• The first (1991) prize was awarded to Linda Petzold for DASSL at ICIAM 91.
• The second (1995) prize was awarded to Chris Bischof and Alan Carle for ADIFOR 2.0 at ICIAM 95.
• The third (1999) prize was awarded to Matteo Frigo and Steven Johnson for FFTW.
• The fourth (2003) prize was awarded to Jonathan Shewchuk at ICIAM 03 for his work on Triangle. Read the SIAM News article for additional details on the fourth prize