Tsutomu Kanai Award

The Tsutomu Kanai Award was established in 1997 by a generous endowment from Hitachi Ltd., and named in honor of Dr. Tsutomu Kanai who served as Hitachi's president for 30 years. The Kanai Award recognized major contributions to the state-of-the art distributed computing systems and their applications. The award consisted of a crystal model, certificate, and $10,000 honorarium. This award was discontinued after 2012.

Past Recipients

  • 2012 Beng Chin Ooi: For pioneering research in distributed database management and peer-to-peer based enterprise quality management.
  • 2011 Ian T. Foster: For pioneering research in grid computing, integrating geographically distributed instruments, computers, and data
  • 2009 Kenneth P. Birman: For fundamental and practical contributions to distributed computing, fault tolerance, reliability and distributed systems management.
  • 2008 Benjamin W. Wah: For outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of distributed multimedia and nonlinear optimization algorithms.
  • 2007 Willy Zwaenepoel: For contributions to cluster-based distributed computing for scientific and Web applications.
  • 2006 Larry Smarr
  • 2005 Elisa BertinoFor pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems.
  • 2004 Kane Kim: For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the scientific foundation of both real-time object-structuring based distributed computing and real-time fault-tolerant distributed computing.
  • 2003 James Gosling: For major contributions to advances in the technology for construction of distributed computing systems through invention of the Java Language system.
  • 2002 Stephen S. Yau: For outstanding contributions to distributed computing software engineering and promotion of the community of distributed computing software researchers.
  • 2001 Alfred Spector
  • 2000 C.V. Ramamoorthy: For pioneering fundamental contributions to extracting parallelism and to the design of distributed system.
  • 1999 Kenneth L. Thompson: For creating the UNIX Operating System, which for more than 20 years has been a key platform for distributed systems work.
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