The papers are selected by an awards committee that is appointed by the LICS General Chair and consists of between three to five members. The committee is renewed every year; at the discretion of the General Chair, members may be reappointed to the awards committee.
In selecting these papers, the Awards Committee should consider the influence that the papers have had since publication; because of the foundational nature of LICS work, impact is often not fully felt immediately, hence the 20-year perspective.
The Award Committee is expected to select 1–2 papers. However, the Award Committee may choose to select no paper from a given year, or may select up to 3 papers.
All papers from the given year are eligible for this award, except those that are authored or co-authored by members of the Awards Committee. There is no formal nomination process for this award, but input from the LICS community is welcome.
List of all Test-of-Time Award winners
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LICS Test-of-Time Award Winner in 2009
For the 2009 LICS Test-of-Time Award, all papers from LICS 1989 were considered. The Awards Committee consisted of Rohit Parikh (chair), Phokion Kolaitis, and Glynn Winskel. The Committee has selected the following paper for the LICS Test-of-Time Award:
Brief Citation: Eugenio Moggi's LICS'89 paper changed the way we think about programs. According to the paper a program denotes a morphism from values to computations, and the nature of computations is determined by a monad. A 'computational lambda calculus' is built around this idea and shown to be sound and complete with respect to a categorical semantics. But more important than this technical result is the great unifying and systematizing power the ideas of the paper give to the semantics of computation. The paper has had a widespread influence on the theory of programming languages; monads are now a standard tool in modifying types.
The presentation of the award took place on August 12, 2009 during the Award Presentations session at LICS 2009.
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LICS Test-of-Time Award Winner in 2008
For the 2008 LICS Test-of-Time Award, all papers from LICS 1988 were considered. The Awards Committee consisted of Rajeev Alur (Chair), Samson Abramsky, and Dexter Kozen. The Committee has selected the following paper for the LICS Test-of-Time Award:
Brief Citation: A central problem in formal approaches to system design and verification concerns establishing a refinement relationship between two descriptions of the system with different levels of detail. This paper shows that the method based on refinement maps is a complete proof technique provided the lower-level description is enriched with history and prophecy variables. The paper contains a conceptually clean solution to a practical verification problem, and the resulting ideas continue to provide guidance for designing specification languages as well as for formalizing correctness proofs of complex designs even today.
The presentation of the award took place on June 25, 2008 during the Award Presentations session at LICS 2008.
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LICS Test-of-Time Award Winner in 2007
For the 2007 LICS Test-of-Time Award, all papers from LICS 1987 were considered. The Awards Committee consisted of Yuri Gurevich (Chair), Rajeev Alur, and Glynn Winskel. The Committee has selected the following two papers for the LICS Test-of-Time Award; the papers are listed in the order they appeared in the LICS 1987 proceedings:
The presentation of the awards took place on July 10, 2007 during the Awards Ceremony session at LICS 2007.
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LICS Test-of-Time Award Winner in 2006
For the 2006 LICS Test-of-Time Award, all papers from LICS 1986 (the first LICS) were considered. The Awards Committee consisted of Samson Abramsky (Chair), Rajeev Alur, and Yuri Gurevich. The Committee has selected the following three papers for the LICS Test-of-Time Award; the papers are listed in the order they appeared in the LICS 1986 proceedings:
E. Allen Emerson Chin-Laung Lei
Efficient Model Checking in Fragments of the Propositional Mu-Calculus (Extended Abstract)More Information...Moshe Y. Vardi Pierre Wolper
An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Program Verification (Preliminary Report)More Information...The presentation of the awards took place on August 12, 2006 during the 2006 LICS Business Meeting.