Computer Measurement Group Recognizes Several Industry Leaders for their Contributions in the Field of Computer Performance and Capacity Management
Industry’s Best of Best Recognized Recently at CMG’07
TURNERSVILLE, NJ, January 22, 2008 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the Information Technology professionals responsible for planning, analyzing and managing the world’s largest IT infrastructures, announced today that at the recent CMG’07, a number of industry leaders were recognized for their contributions to the field of computer performance and capacity management.
CMG awarded "Best Papers" to the following individuals:
The "Best Paper" is picked from a small set of papers that the conference paper referees acknowledge as they read and evaluate the submissions for the conference.
CMG awarded the A. A. Michelson Award to the following individual:
Adrian Cockroft - Netflix
Albert Abraham Michelson was known for his technical accomplishments in measuring the speed of light and for his role as teacher and inspirer of others. CMG presents this prestigious award to recognize and encourage the same combination of technical excellence and professional contribution found in only an exceptional few.
CMG awarded the CMG Graduate Fellowship to:
Vinod Dubey, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA for Quality of Service (QoS) Brokering and Performance Management of Composite Services in SOA
The CMG Graduate Fellowship program is open to full time graduate students in Computer Science and related fields. It is intended to encourage and support research in the areas of measurement, modeling, management and analysis of system and network performance. For details, see .
CMG awarded the Mullen Award to the following individuals:
Peg McMahon - Sprint / Nextel - For her paper titled, "Death to Dashboards: Alarming, Performance Management Based on Variance, System Prioritization and Other Thoughts on Data Visualization"
Dr. Michael Salsburg - Unisys - For his paper titled, "Beyond the Hypervisor Hype."
The J. William Mullen award is given in memory of past CMG president Bill Mullen. This award recognizes his contributions to CMG and the profession of information technology. The award recipient is an individual who exhibits both technical excellence and an engaging presentation style.
These papers and all CMG’07 papers are available to CMG members at www.cmg.org.
CMG, (www.cmg.org) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis, and modeling.
For more information on the conference, see the conference Web page at
http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire12-Conference.
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