Hi Mac,
Offline, I'd be interested in the financial background to that .... I
have a slightly different version, and AFAIK BCS were in from the beginning.
Chris
Mcauley, Derek wrote:
> Both are right.
>
> There were two prizes: one for best student presentation at Coseners
> (selected by a worthy subset of attendees) and another prize (originally
> selected by the staff of ORL) for "best published distributed systems
> paper by a student author in the UK". I am not clear how the
> relationship with the BCS came about but something happened; then
> ORL/AT&T shut.
>
> Intel agreed to pick up the first of these prizes, and I require only
> that some suitable set of attendees form a selection panel, *attend* all
> the student talks and send me a recommendation.
>
> However, after consideration by BCS, it was decided that there would be
> considerable costs associated with the latter prize and with no
> "endowment" left to pay it was decided to drop it.
>
> Mac.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next Generation Networking [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Iain Phillips
> Sent: 10 June 2005 17:32
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Cosener's MSN 05
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:11:47PM +0100, Ian Wakeman wrote:
>
>>Whilst I'm emailing, could I also point out the Brendan Murphy
>
> Memorial
>
>>Young Researcher Prize, supported by Intel and the BCS, which will be
>>awarded to the best presentation by a young researcher?
>
>
> Just out of interest:
>
> I remember this prize originally being awarded to the "best published
> distibuted systems paper by a student author in the UK." When did it
> change
> to the best young researcher presentation at Cosener's?
>
> Iain
>
>
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