[Adass-announce] 2021 ADASS Software Prize

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Dear colleagues,

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

The 2021 recipients of the prize are: Doug Tody, Lindsey Davis
and Frank Valdes for the design and development of the core IRAF
system and science packages that have enabled almost 25,000
scientific papers since 1986.  IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis
Facility) is a software system developed originally by the
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (now NSF's NOIRLab) that
has been extended by astronomers and institutions to provide a
standard platform for data reduction and pipeline processing for
numerous ground and space-based observatories.  This award is
presented in recognition of the outstanding contribution of IRAF
to the astronomical software community and the key role these
awardees had in developing the core system.

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 during the upcoming meeting, followed
by a talk by Frank Valdes.

Stephen Gwyn, Deputy Chair
  on behalf of ADASS Program Organizing Committee
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