IS AWARDS – IS2024

AWARD “DONALD MICHIE AND ALAN TURING” FOR LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS IN SLOVENIAN INFORMATION SOCIETY (“MICHIE-TURING” AWARD)

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2024 Prof. Dr. Borut Žalik
2023 Prof. Dr. Andrej Brodnik
2022 Prof. Dr. Jadran Lenarčič
2021 Prof. Dr. Jernej Kozak
2020 Prof. Dr. Lidija Zadnik Stirn
2019 Prof. Dr. Marjan Mernik
2018 Prof. Dr. Saša Divjak
2017 Prof. Dr. Marjan Krisper
2016 Prof. Dr. Tomaž Pisanski
2015 Prof. Dr. Jurij Tasič
2014 Prof. Dr. Janez Grad
2013 Prof. Dr. Dušan Kodek
2012 Prof. Dr. Franc Solina
2011 Prof. Dr. Vladimir Batagelj
2010 Prof. Dr. Tomaž Kalin
2009 Prof. Dr. Vladislav Rajkovič
2008 Prof. Dr. Ivan Rozman
2007 Acad. Prof. Dr. Ivan Bratko
2006 Prof. Dr. Cene Bavec
2005 Dr. Anton P. Železnikar

Nomination and Selection of the Donald Michie and Alan Turing Prize for Life Achievements in Slovenian Information Society

A nomination for the Donald Michie and Alan Turing Prize for Life Achievements in Slovenian Information Society (short Michie-Turing prize) may be submitted by any person who meets the Eligibility criteria. A nomination will consist of details of the named candidate together with a written case of at most one page summarising the candidates key achievements in the field of Information Sciences. Candidates may not nominate themselves. A letter of invitation to submit is not required.

The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed to the public. Process of Nomination and Selection The Organising Committee of the Information society multi-conference is responsible for the selection of eligible candidates.

The Organising Committee and the Programming Committee of the Information society multiconference are responsible for the choice of the Michie-Turing Prize recipients. The Michie-Turing Prize is awarded at the Opening Ceremony of the yearly multi-conference Information society. Who is eligible for the Prize The candidates eligible for the Miche-Turing Prize are those submitted by qualified nominators fulfilling the Eligibility criteria (see below). No one can nominate himself or herself.

How are the Michie-Turing Recipients selected?

1. Till the annual summer meeting of the Programming and the Organising Committee, the President of the Organising Committee of the Information Society multi-conference accepts proposals of all members of the Programming and Organising Committee of the IS conference.

2. At the annual summer meeting of the Programming and the Organising Committee, any member of the Programming and the Organising Committee can propose additional candidates.

3. Any present member of the Programming and the Organising Committee can object with veto to any of the proposals if there exists a reasonable argumentation.

4. Each proposed nominee has to be confirmed by the present members of the Programming and the Organising Committee with majority of votes.

5. A list of potential nominees is formed at the annual summer meeting of the Programming and the Organising Committee. The list should consist of at least three and less than seven nominees.

6. The Programming Committee also names a Review board that reviews the nominees.

7. Each nominee is asked for agreement with the candidature in less than one month. The Organising Committee is delegated for asking the nominees.

8. The Review board is asked to analyze whether the candidates are eligible for the award. The Review board can eliminate nominees not meeting the desired scientific and development criteria and report the modified list in one month to the Organising Committee. The Review board cannot propose less than two candidates to the Organising Committee.

9. The Organising Committee and the Review board organize an argumentation for the proposed candidates.

10. The list of nominees and the argumentation highlighting their contributions is submitted by a member of the OC to all members of the Programming Committee and Organising Committee through electronic mail for voting. One member of the Organising committee (the president excluded) receives votes through email.

11. Voting is anonymous in the sense that only the chosen member of the Organising Committee sees the voting. Reporting can be performed as to regard the number of votes submitted for each candidate. In case of complaint, a special board can be named to verify the voting.

Are the nominations made public?

Disclosure of information about the nominations is restricted. The restriction concerns the nominees and nominators, as well as investigations and opinions related to the award of a prize.

Eligibility criteria

Candidates for nominations are those that contributed significantly to the information society in Slovenia and abroad.

In particular, they should be

Active in information society
Slovenians by citizenship
Established researchers
Established professors
Established developers/engineers in industry
Potentially of other professions related to information society.

The candidates are not to be

Active professional politicians
Members of political and capital elites
Employed in the governmental sector.

prof. dr. Sašo Džeroski
Benjamin Bajd
2022 NIJZ for Electronic Health Portal zVEM
2021 Members of the Department of Intelligent Systems, Institute “Jožef Stefan”
2020 Programme Committee of the ACM Beaver contest
2019 Members of the Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute
2018 Assist. Prof. Dr. Marinka Žitnik
2017 Assist. Prof. Dr. Andrej Brodnik
2016 Prof. Dr. Blaž Zupan
2015 Assist. Prof. Dr. Domen Mongus
2014 Prof. Dr. Janez Demšar
2013 Prof. Dr. Marko Bajec
2012 Dr. Jure Leskovec
2011 Janez Brank, MSc
2010 Marko Grobelnik

2023 Legends of computing and informatics: Cene Bavec, Saša Divjak, Janez Grad, Jože Gričar, Izidor Hafner, Vladislav Rajkovič, Stane Štefančič, Lidija Zadnik Stirn, Borut Žalik, Anton Pavel Železnikar
2022 Legends of computing and informatics: Rudi Bric, Matjaž Gams, Tomaž Gornik, Tomaž Kalin, Robert Leskovar, Domen Mongus, Niko Schlamberger, Franc Solina, Tone Stanovnik, Denis Trček, Žiga Turk
2021 Pioneers of Computer Science in Slovenian High Schools: Branko Roblek, Jernej Virant, Milan Kac, Bogomir Horvat, Cveto Trampuž, Egon Zakrajšek, Milan Adamič, Janez Grad, Ivan Bratko, Vladislav Rajkovič, Iztok Lajovic, Franc Savnik, Mira Volk, Janez Lesjak, Izidor Hafner
2018 Award for the best teacher or professor in primary or secondary school: Gregor Anželj
2018 Special recognition: prof. dr. Anton P. Železnikar
2018 Lifetime Achievement ‘First Lady of the Slovenian Internet’: prof. dr. Borka Džonova Jerman Blažič

Tekmovanja ACM Slovenija – https://tekmovanja.acm.si/
2023 Portal dostopno.si
2022 the Electronic personal ID Card
2021 Covid-19 Tracker / Covid-19 sledilnik
2020 Bioinformatics Laboratory, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
2019 Mobile Application “Do you know what you eat?!”
2018 Yaskawina robot factory Kočevje
2017 Electronic medical prescription in Slovenia
2016 Information system of the Pediatric Clinic, University Medical Center Ljubljana
2015 Supervisor application for supervision of public finances
2014 Google Street View
2013 VIDEOLECTURES.NET portal for the best product in the category “e-science and technology”
2012 Urbana payment card and Bicikelj bike rental network of Ljubljana
2011 Abolition of self-service terminals for the certification of health cards in Slovenia

2024 Distribution of personal computers – Ministry of Digital Transformation
2023 Incompatibility of healthcare systems in Slovenia
2022 The censorship on social networks and Web
2021 Claim that the mobile application for tracking Covid-19 contacts will harm information privacy
2020 Slow development of electronic health records in Slovenia
2019 National e-health system in Slovenia
2018 Reduction of public funding for research in Slovenia
2017 Reduction of public funding for research in Slovenia
2016 Slovenia’s drop on the information society ladder
2015 Lack of informatization of Slovenian justice system
2014 Implementation of regulation concerning browser cookies
2013 The absence of new information technology achievements at the national level in the last year
2012 ACTA trade agreement
2011 Real estate inventory in Slovenia

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- ITTC
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  - The WIPO National award for inventors
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