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  USENIX - Lifetime Achievement Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Awarded for the ubiquity, breadth, and quality of its freely available redistributable and modifiable software, which has enabled a generation of research and commercial development.
At the USENIX Technical Conference in New Orleans, the third Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Tom Truscott, Steve Bellovin, and Jim Ellis for their work in creating USENET, announced exactly 15 years previously at the USENIX Conference in Boulder, Colorado.
The award was first presented in 1993 to The Computer Systems Research Group, honoring 180 individuals for their contribution to the CSRG effort.
www.usenix.org /directory/awards.html   (763 words)

  
 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award to Aravind Joshi
The ACL Lifetime Achievement Award was instituted on the occasion of the 40th anniversary meeting of the Association.
The award is a crystal trophy (the nearly transparent object being present to Aravind Joshi in the accompanying photo), and the recipient is invited to give a 45-minute speech on his views on the development of Computational Linguistics at the annual meeting.
The award was presented at the 40th meeting of the ACL on July 8, 2002, at the University of Pennsylvania.
www.let.rug.nl /~nerbonne/misc/joshi-laudatio.html   (985 words)

  
 Lifetime Achievement Award for Glenn Ford Petition
We are petitioning “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” for a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for Mr.
We are petitioning The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr.
The Lifetime Achievement Award for Glenn Ford Petition to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was created by Glenn Ford Online and written by Barbara Cary.
www.petitiononline.com /gfol/petition.html   (231 words)

  
 Shareware Industry Awards Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Shareware Industry Award for Lifetime Achievement is given to those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to shareware during their lifetime.
As one of the true pioneers of the shareware industry, the SIAF board of directors is proud to award the Shareware Industry Award for Lifetime Achievement to Paris Karahalios.
The Shareware Industry Awards Foundation would like it to be known that Phil was selected for this award prior to his untimely death, and with that in mind, this Lifetime Achievement Award is given, not to commemorate his death, but to celebrate and honor, his life.
www.sic.org /lifetime.asp   (1754 words)

  
 Lemelson-MIT Program: Lifetime Achievement Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Candidates for this award are living role models in the fields of science, engineering, medicine and technology.
The Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award may be awarded to an individual or to two collaborators in a specific invention.
The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award is part of a comprehensive program administered by the Lemelson-MIT Program and established by The Lemelson Foundation to raise the stature of inventors and to inspire innovation among young people.
web.mit.edu /invent/a-lifetime.html   (674 words)

  
 Lifetime Achievement Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Lifetime Achievement Awards combines what was formerly the Henry Johnson Fisher Awards, which were established in 1964, and ASME's Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame Award, established in 1995.
On his 90th birthday, an annual award was established to commemorate his name and his many achievements in magazine publishing spanning more than 65 years.
Appropriately, the symbol of the Henry Johnson Fisher Award is the clear crystal urn entitled "The Arts." The urn, itself a work of art, depicts the goddess Athena, patroness of learning and the arts.
www.magazine.org /events_and_seminars/Awards/Lifetime_Achievement_Awards   (371 words)

  
 AATH Lifetime Achievement Award - Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
The award may be presented to one, two or more deserving individuals each year at the annual conference.
However, the Awards Committee may also decide not to give out the award in any given year if, in their discretion, there are no deserving candidates nominated.
The AATH Awards Committee announces its Call for Nominations for the "Doug Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award" to be presented at the AATH Annual Conference in February.
www.aath.org /lifetime_award.htm   (661 words)

  
 ISPOR Lifetime Achievement Awards
The ISPOR Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award is established in honor of the late Avedis Donabedian MD, MPH to acknowledge those individuals who have made a major contribution to the improvement of health outcomes.
The Award is open to any person who through his or her life’s endeavors has demonstrated a significant and lasting contribution towards better health outcomes in a population or sub-population, as defined by the Lifetime Achievement Awards Task Force.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards Task Force selects the recipient by reviewing the materials submitted for each nominee and determining the overall impact of his or her contributions towards improving health outcomes.
www.ispor.org /awards/donabedian_.asp   (766 words)

  
 ASPE Lifetime Achievement Awards
The ASPE Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of Precision Engineering.
The 2004 ASPE Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to Dr. John H. Bruning in recognition of his many contributions to the art and science of precision engineering.
He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both his alma maters He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA and in 1993 received the OSA Richardson Medal.
www.aspe.net /about/awards.html   (3530 words)

  
 Lemelson-MIT Prize in TutorGig Encyclopedia
Al Gross (Lifetime Achievement Award) for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.
Stephanie Kwolek (Lifetime Achievement Award) for her work on liquid-crystalline polymers and the development of the aramid fabric Kevlar.
Jacob Rabinow (Lifetime Achievement Award) for the first disc-shaped magnetic storage media for computers, the magnetic particle clutch, the first straight-line phonograph, the first self-regulating clock, and a "reading machine" which was the first to use the "best match" principle.
www.tutorgig.com /ed/Lemelson-MIT_Prize   (399 words)

  
 Lifetime Achievement Award
The OPASTCO Lifetime Achievement Award is one of the highest honors bestowed by this organization.
The award recognizes effective leadership, long-term involvement in the telephone industry, and advocacy for the independent telecommunications community, along with outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the local community and to state associations.
OPASTCO recently awarded its 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award to Hobart Rand, immediate past chairman of Granite State Telephone Inc., in Weare, N.H. Rand is chairman of Granite State Telephone's board of directors after serving as company president from 1982 to 2004.
www.opastco.org /awards/lifetime.htm   (428 words)

  
 Horror Writers Association - Lifetime Achievement Awards
While this award is often presented to a writer, it may also be given for influential accomplishments in other creative fields.
To be eligible for this award, a candidate must either be at least sixty years of age by May 1 of the year of the award's presentation, or must have first produced professional work in the field of Horror at least thirty-five years prior to May 1 of the year of the award's presentation.
Instead, at the beginning of each year, HWA's President appoints a Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee consisting of five Active HWA members from diverse geographical areas, and whose writing represents the varied types of dark fantasy/ horror/ and occult fiction.
www.horror.org /laawd.htm   (354 words)

  
 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree: Leonard Slatkin
The separate Lifetime Achievement Award was created to recognize those with long-term achievement in that area.
Martin Bookspan were, respectively, the second and third Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, recognized for their outstanding radio contributions to music education.
Contributions in support of the award may be directed to The Klassix Society at 3950 E. Newman Road, Joplin, Missouri 64801-1595.
www.mssu.edu /pages/kxms/slatkin.htm   (310 words)

  
 Awards presented by the Joe Martin Foundation
Young craftsmen are also rewarded each year with a $500 award started by Craftsman of the Year winner Young C. Park, who chose to donate his $1000 award check back to the foundation to support youth participation in craftsmanship.
We feel the prestige of this award will increase each year as person selected sees quality of the group he or she will be joining.
Hiraoka was presented with an award plaque and special gold medallion to honor his achievement.
www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com /awards.htm   (1312 words)

  
 The WFMA Lifetime Achievement Award
On January 28th, 2006, at the 21th Annual WFMA Concert, the WFMA Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to for his many contributions to the folk music community for over 4 decades.
On January 16th, 2004, at the 19th Annual WFMA Benefit Weekend, the WFMA Lifetime Achievement Award was presented, posthumously, to Dave Van Ronk, a central figure in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, who passed away in February, 2002 at the age of 65.
On January 15th, 1999, at the 14th Annual WFMA Benefit Weekend, the WFMA Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Accepting the award on behalf of (who was not able to be there because of the weather) was Danny Doyle.
www.wfma.net /Wfmalife.htm   (442 words)

  
 AFI Life Achievement Award: George Lucas
The award was presented at a gala tribute on June 9 in Los Angeles.
Due to licensing restrictions, the telecasts of the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to George Lucas and past honorees are not available for distribution or purchase on DVD or VHS.
George Lucas was presented with the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award on Thursday, June 9, 2005 at a fl-tie gala event held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
www.afi.com /tvevents/laa/laa05.aspx   (894 words)

  
 Nelson is named the recipient of the Golf Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award
The award was created to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to collegiate golf and its student-athletes.
Nelson is oly the second recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award and just the second non-collegiate coach inducted into the GCAA Hall of Fame.
The award was created to honor special individuals who have made outstanding contributions to collegiate golf and its student-athletes.
www.pga.com /news/tours/college/nelson011105.cfm   (441 words)

  
 Di Caprio stunned after receiving lifetime achievement award
“Titanic” and "The Aviator" star Leonardo Di Caprio is stunned to have received a lifetime achievement award at the age of 30.
After receiving the award, DiCaprio said: “It's a Lifetime Achievement Award, which is completely and utterly surreal, given I'm only 30 years old.
Hollywood heart throb was presented the Platinum Award at the Santa Barbara, California's International Film Festival on Sunday, commemorating the event's 20th anniversary and recognising the actor's exceptional career, according to festival director Roger Durling.
www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/1494.html   (176 words)

  
 The 2001 ESPY Awards - Nicklaus received ESPY Lifetime Achievement award
The ESPY Awards -- for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly -- set the stage for the sports world to celebrate the year's achievements, relive the memorable moments and salute the best performers and performances.
In addition to the ESPY Lifetime Achievement Award, the Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award is presented to an individual whose contributions transcend sports.
The ESPY Awards annually support The V Foundation for Cancer Research, established at the inaugural ESPYs in 1993 by ESPN with the late Jim Valvano.
espn.go.com /espy2001/s/010111nicklaus.html   (389 words)

  
 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree: Martin Bookspan
The separate Lifetime Achievement Award was launched to recognize conspicuous achievement in that area.
Peter Schickele was the second Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, recognized for his outstanding radio program, Schickele Mix in 2001.
Contributions insupport of the award may be directed to The Klassix Society at 3950 E. Newman Road, Joplin, Missouri 64801-1595.
www.mssu.edu /pages/kxms/bookspan.htm   (602 words)

  
 Miss Lou gets Lifetime Achievement Award in Toronto - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
ILLNESS kept Louise Bennett-Coverley from personally accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA), but the roughly 800 persons who were there still felt her presence in the room.
Jamaica's consul-general to Toronto, Vivia Betton, accepted the award on the cultural icon's behalf during the 22nd annual staging of the BBPA's Harry Jerome Awards.
Betton thanked the Harry Jerome awards committee for singling out 'Miss Lou' as the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award, and said the cultural icon was accepting the award "proudly and yet humbly".
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040510T210000-0500_59682_OBS_MISS_LOU_GETS_LIFETIME_ACHIEVEMENT_AWARD_IN_TORONTO.asp   (427 words)

  
 Traumatic StressPoints - Winter 2004: ISTSS Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Ochberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is awarded to the individual who has made great lifetime contributions to the field of traumatic stress studies.
The award is part of a larger strategy to reform journalism education; Ochberg is helping to transform journalism into a more trauma-sensitive profession worldwide.
Frank Ochberg is a multitalented professional, and those who know him personally testify to his warmth and generosity, his commitment to reducing violence and trauma, and his dedication to fostering personal and professional growth among young people and those new to the field.
www.istss.org /publications/TS/Winter04/ochberg.htm   (701 words)

  
 Bob Marley receives Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Also honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards were the Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., the Who, Arif Mardin and Phil Ramone.
According to Michael Greene, President/CEO of the Recording Academy, "The recipients of these awards are among the most important architects and builders of many of the most distinctive and seminal recordings of this century.
Their outstanding achievements have left a timeless legacy of innovative and powerful music that has changed the world socially, politically and given a voice to our cultural condition.
www.rootzreggae.com /Rootz-Reggae/MarleyLifetimeAchievement.htm   (387 words)

  
 TWNA - Lifetime Achievement Award
Abelson's selection as the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award winner is in no small part because of the enormous esteem he has among his peers.
Special recognition must also be given to Peterbilt, not only for being the Presenting Sponsor of the Lifetime Achievement Award, but also for being the first to support the Industry Awards Banquet.
It's quite fitting that an award recognizing communicators who take the initiative is presented by a company with the same beliefs.
www.twna.org /lifetime-award.htm   (567 words)

  
 Lifetime Achievement Award
The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Lifetime Achievement Award is granted to a recognized individual whose exemplary work in the writing and publishing industry spans at least a twenty-five year period.
Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award will have demonstrated a life-long commitment to the local writing and publishing industry as an exceptional leader, professional, volunteer or advocate.
The Lifetime Achievement Award pays tribute to those who have devoted time, energy, expertise or talent to furthering the writing and publishing community in Manitoba.
www.mbwriter.mb.ca /mwapa/award_lifetime.html   (295 words)

  
 Lois Rodden - Regulus Lifetime Achievement Award
So instead of the poison hemlock, the astrological community, in 1992, awarded her the Regulus Award for Enhancing Astrology's Image, and today gives her its Lifetime Achievement award.
Lois Rodden is receiving the UAC award for lifetime achievement tonight because it takes a lifetime to collect, check, code and annotate all the birth data now housed in the AstroDatabank CD.
It was an immense honor and deeply gratifying to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at UAC, Orlando.
www.astrodatabank.com /LoisLifetimeAchievement.htm   (1895 words)

  
 Wired News: Vaporware: Nuke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em
Now in its seventh year, Wired News' Vaporware Awards celebrates all those eagerly anticipated gizmos in 2003 that were put off, put away or quietly put down.
However, rather than award 3D Realms the coveted Vaporware title for the third year in a row, we decided the company deserved something special.
A Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Duke Nukem Forever on the suggestion of reader Jeff White, who wrote, "First proposed in 1801 (or something close to that), Duke Nukem Forever has now come to define the term 'vaporware.' I wouldn't be surprised if dictionaries actually began printing it: 'vaporware: n.
www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,61935,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3   (721 words)

  
 The Spoof - Screen Actors Guild Honors James Garner with 3rd Lifetime Achievement Award
Garner won his first SAG lifetime achievement in 1964, the year after he had been nominated for—and lost—the Golden Globe’s best-actor-in-a-comedy award for his work in “The Wheeler Dealers.” He remains the youngest actor ever honored for lifetime achievement.
Garner was nominated for the SAG’s best supporting actor award this year for his role in the movie “The Notebook”; and though he wasn't given any real chance of winning—the award went to Morgan Freeman for his work in “Million Dollar Baby”—most people thought the SAG would wait until next year before honoring Garner again.
We were criticized for using the award to encourage achievement.
www.thespoof.com /news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i7391   (581 words)

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