bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) (06/15/90)
On May 17, 1990, Tom McCarthy, Vice President of Marketing for Interactive, died in a plane accident. To help keep his memory alive, we have instituted an annual ``Thomas P. McCarthy award''. The exact details still require some ironing out, but the general idea is this: Interactive will award a prize to the best Eiffel-related work. The winner will be selected on the basis of scientific merit and use of the Eiffel ideas. The competition will be open to anyone, whether or not an actual user of Eiffel. The winner will be selected by an international scientific committee, currently being formed. The award will include a stipend to present the work at an international conference and an honorarium. The first award will be given in October of this year. Details on the competition will be posted on comp.lang.eiffel around July 10. -- Bertrand Meyer bertrand@eiffel.com