PET Award

Call for Nominations

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You are invited to submit nominations to the 2008 PET Award.

The PET Award is presented annually to researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technology. It is awarded at the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).

The PET Award carries a prize of 3000 Euros thanks to the generous support of Microsoft. The crystal prize itself is offered by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.

Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from August 1st, 2006 until May 21st, 2008.

The complete Award rules including eligibility requirements can be found at http://petsymposium.org/award/.

Anyone can nominate a paper by sending an email message containing the following to award-chairs08@petsymposium.org:

All nominations must be submitted by May 21st, 2008. An Award committee will select one or two winners among the nominations received. Winners must be present at the PET Symposium in order to receive the Award. This requirement can be waived only at the discretion of the PET Advisory board.

More information about the PET award (including past winners) is available at http://petsymposium.org/award/

More information about the 2008 PET Symposium is available at http://petsymposium.org/2008.