[fitsbits] [Adass-announce] Winner of the ADASS Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Astronomical Software (fwd)

[Lucio Chiappetti]

I am very glad to announce to the FITS community that "our" Bill Pence has 
been awarded the "first annual ADASS Prize for an Outstanding Contribution 
to Astronomical Software" (see forwarded message).

I anticipate my personal felicitations to Bill, sure to represent those of 
the FITS community.

-- 
Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html


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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 13:08:02 -1000
Subject: [Adass-announce] Winner of the ADASS Prize for an Outstanding
     Contribution to Astronomical Software
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Dear colleagues,


The ADASS Program Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the winner 
of the first annual ADASS Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to 
Astronomical Software.

The 2020 recipient of the prize is:

William Pence for his work on CFITSIO


CFITSIO is a library of subroutines for reading and writing FITS files. 
which has been used in countless astronomical software packages over two 
decades.  It provides a de facto reference implementation of the FITS 
standard in addition to supporting common extensions used by the 
astronomical community.  CFITSIO has proven to be both robust and 
portable, providing a stable code base for numerous projects across many 
operating systems and development languages.  This award is presented in 
recognition of the outstanding contribution of CFITSIO to the astronomical 
software community and for Bill's efforts in leading the project since its 
inception.


https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/


The ADASS community was invited to submit nominations for this year's 
prize. The winner was selected by the Program Organizing Committee whose 
members voted on the received nominations.  We wish to thank the community 
for their enthusiastic participation.


The award will be presented to William Pence during the upcoming meeting.


ADASS Program Organising Committee (POC)
    Kathleen Labrie, POC Chair (NSF's NOIRLab)
    Stephen Gwyn, Deputy Chair (CADC)
    Mike Fitzpatrick, POC Exec (NSF's NOIRLab)
    Christophe Arviset (ESA-ESAC)
    Pascal Ballester (ESO)
    Sébastien Derrière (CDS)
    Kimberly DuPrie (STScI)
    Jorge Ibsen (ALMA)
    Brian Kent (NRAO)
    Nuria Lorente (AAO-MQ)
    Jessica Mink (SAO)
    Fabio Pasian (INAF)
    Francesco Pierfederici (IRAM)
    Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)
    Jose Enrique Ruiz (IAA-CSIC)
    Yuji Shirasaki (NAOJ)
    Keith Shortridge (K&V)
    Oleg Smirnov (Rhodes University + SARAO)
    Mark Taylor (Bristol)
    Russ Taylor (IDIA)
    Peter Teuben (UMD)
    Xiuqin Wu (IPAC)
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