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

[ADASS announcement list]

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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