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JEREMY HOAD
General Secretary
National Postgraduate Committee (NPC)
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Dear Colleague
DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION COMPETITION 1999
Sixth announcement!
I would be grateful if you would make the following
announcement available to research students and
supervisors in your department.
A copy of the announcement can be found on the Web at:
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DD/
Note that submissions must be sent to me by 1 April 1999.
Brian Randell
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DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATIONS 1999
The Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction
with the British Computer Society (BCS), annually selects for publication a
few
of the best British PhD/DPhil dissertations in computer science. A maximum
of
four dissertations will be selected for publication by Springer Verlag. The
series editor is C J van Rijsbergen. A total of twenty-one theses have been
selected for publication since the scheme began in 1990.
The scheme aims to make more visible the significant contribution made by
Britain -- in particular by post-graduate students -- to computer science.
Publication also serves to provide a model for future students. BCS and
Springer Verlag together sponsor awards and an award ceremony for the chosen
dissertations. The selection panel on behalf of CPHC consists of nine
experienced computer scientists, not more than one from any institution,
each
normally serving on the panel for three years. The 1998/9 panel members are
Howard Barringer (Manchester), Tony Cohn (Leeds), Michael Harrison (York),
David May (Bristol), Ron Morrison (St Andrews), Andrew Pitts (Cambridge),
Brian Randell (Newcastle, Chairman), Ian Sommerville (Lancaster) and Lincoln
Wallen (Oxford).
The Dissertations
Any dissertation is eligible which is submitted for a doctorate in the
British Isles in what is commonly understood as Computer Science. (Theses
which are basically in some other discipline but which make use, even very
extensive use, of computing will not be regarded as eligible.)
To be considered a dissertation should:
- make a noteworthy contribution to the subject,
- reach a high standard of exposition,
- place its results clearly in the context of computer science as a
whole,
and
- enable a computer scientist with significantly different interests to
grasp its essentials.
It is reasonable to submit a thesis to the scheme if it has all of the
above qualities in good measure, and if it is comparable in standard with
the
top 10--15% of dissertations in the subject. Long dissertations are not
encouraged; if the main text is more than about 80,000 words there should be
good justification.
Submission
The dissertation should be submitted on paper (FOUR copies) by the author's
examiners, or by the head of department with the examiners' advice. It
should be accompanied by the author's written agreement and by an assurance
that
within the previous twelve months the examiners have recommended to the
author's
institution that it merits a doctorate. An indication should be given if the
dissertation is being considered for publication elsewhere. The dissertation
should be accompanied by a written justification, of perhaps 300 words, by
one
of the examiners -- preferably the external -- explaining the dissertation's
claim to distinction.
Submissions should be sent to the panel chairman: Professor Brian Randell,
Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU. Please note that wherever possible we would prefer the dissertation
to be submitted in single-spaced, double-sided format. Dissertations do not
have to be bound; soft covers are acceptable.
The latest submission date is 1 April 1999. Early submission, any time
after this call, is welcome.
Brian Randell
1 March 1999
Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU, UK
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