Abstract
Dr. Jean-Claude Laprie was Directeur de Recherche at LAASCNRS, Toulouse, France. He devoted his entire career to research on the dependability of computing systems. His unique capability of abstraction and formalization, and his contributions to the formulation of the concepts and methodologies of dependability, rapidly led to national and international recognition. He received the IFIP Silver Core in 1992, the Silver Medal of French Scientific Research in 1993, and the Grand Prize in Informatics of the French Academy of Science in 2009. He was made Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite in 2002. The IFIP 10.4 working group on Dependable Computing created the award in his honor in 2011. It recognizes outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of Dependable Computing. For 2014, the award committee decided to recognize three seminal papers in the award‚s impact categories: (1) B. Randell, "System Structure for Software Fault Tolerance," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.SE-1, no.1, 1975, pp 220-232. (2) J.H. Wensley, L. Lamport, J. Goldberg, M.W. Green, K.N. Levitt, P.M. Melliar-Smith, R.E. Shostak, C.B. Weinstock, "SIFT: The Design and Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Computer for Aircraft Control," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.66, no.10, 1978, pp.1240-1255. (3) H. Kopetz, G. Bauer, "The Time-Triggered Architecture," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.91, no.1, 2003, pp. 112-126.