Student Paper Award Research Articles

Defending Distributed Systems Against Adversarial Attacks

Brief Biography: I am a postdoc in the Computer Sci- ence and Arti cial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, hosted by Professor Nancy Lynch. She received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017, supervised by Pro- fessor Nitin H. Vaidya. Her research intersects distributed systems, learning, security, and brain computing. She was the runner-up for the Best Student Paper Award at DISC 2016, and she received the 2015 Best Student Paper Award at SSS 2015. She received UIUC's Sundaram Seshu Interna- tional Student Fellowship for 2016, and was invited to par- ticipate in Rising Stars in EECS (2018). She has served on TPC for several conferences including ICDCS and ICDCN.

Optimization Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems

Brief Biography: Navid Azizan is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is co-advised by Adam Wierman and Babak Hassibi, and is a member of multiple research groups: DOLCIT, RSRG and SISL. During the summer of 2019, he was a research scientist intern at Google DeepMind. He received the B.Sc. degree in EE form Sharif University of Technology and the M.Sc. degree in ECE from the University of Southern California, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. His research interests broadly lie in mathematical optimization, machine learning, networks, and markets. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2016 ACM GreenMetrics Best Student Paper Award, the Amazon Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, the PIMCO Fellowship in Data Science, the Caltech CMS Fellowship, and the USC Provost's Fellowship.

New MA in SF and Film Studies

528 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) The SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship (originally the Pilgrim Award), was created in 1970. Its original name echoed the title of J.O. Bailey's Pilgrims through Space and Time (1947) and was altered in 2019. This year’s awardee is Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside). The SFRA Innovative Research Award (formerly the Pioneer Award) is given to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year. This year’s winner is Susan Ang for “Triangulating the Dyad: Seen (Orciny) Unseen,” which appeared in Foundation 48.132. Raino Isto received an honorable mention for “‘I Will Speak in Their Own Language’: Yugoslav Socialist Monuments and Science Fiction,” from Extrapolation 60.3. The Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service acknowledges outstanding service activities, including promotion of sf teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations. This year’s awardee is Wu Yan of Beijing Normal University. The Mary Kay Bray Award is given for the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year. This year’s awardees are Erin Horáková and Rich Horton for their essays “Treknomics” and “Gene Wolfe,” respectively, both from issue #327. The Student Paper Award is presented to the outstanding scholarly essay read at the annual conference of the SFRA by a student. This year’s awardee is Conrad Scott for “‘Changing Landscapes’: Ecocritical Dystopianism in Contemporary Indigenous SF Literature.” Erin Cheslow received an honorable mention for her paper “The Chow that Can Be Spoken Is Not the True Chow: Relationality and Estrangement in the Animal Gaze.” The SFRA Book Award is given to the author of the best first scholarly monograph in SF in each calendar year. The first winner of this new award is Xiao Liu of McGill University for her Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). The Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize, awarded by the SF and Technoculture Studies program at University of California, Riverside, honors an outstanding scholarlymonographthat explores the intersections among popular culture (particularly sf), and the discourses and cultures of technoscience, recognizing groundbreaking contributions to the field. Although not an SFRA prize, it is typically announced at the annual SFRA banquet. This year’s awardees are Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari, both at the University of Southern California, for their Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (Fordham University Press, 2019). The judges also commended as particularly strong Kara Keeling’s Queer Times, Black Futures (New York University Press, 2019) and Xiao Liu’s Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).—Gerry Canavan, English Department, Marquette University New MA in SF and Film Studies. If you are a film buff and the coronavirus pandemic has given you time to reevaluate your life and career, you might want 529 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE to consider doing a Master’s degree at Richmond, where the American International University in London is located, in 2021. Their exciting new MA in Film, Science Fiction, and Fantasy will launch in January 2021 and will also be available from September next year. This is the only graduate-level film program of its kind in the UK, combining sf and fantasy with film, television, and visual media, in which graduates receive both a UK and US qualification. The program is based near London, a top cultural and film-production capital, and combines theory and practice; students will learn the history and theory of film as well as production and digital storytelling. There will be the option of a research project or a practical project. If you have any questions, do contact the Richmond team at .—Ceri Schooling, PR and Communications Team, International American University Post-Utopia in Speculative Fiction: The End of the Future? Announcing a Special Issue of Humanities. Until the current pandemic, it was widely believed that we had entered a period of paralysis in the collective historical imagination. This paralysis was reflected in the inability to imagine a future radically different from the present, which was the prerequisite...

2019 APCG Student Paper Awards

2019 APCG Student Paper Awards

PODC 2019 Review

The 38th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2019) was held on July 29-August 2, 2019 at the Double Tree Hilton hotel in Toronto, Canada. With three keynotes, over 40 accepted papers, over 20 accepted brief announcements, two workshops, and roughly 150 attendants, PODC 2019 constituted a composition of fascinating improvements in many areas of distributed and parallel computing. On the evening of the 31st of July, the conference banquet was held on a cruise over beautiful Lake Ontario and included the best papers award ceremony. The best paper award went to Yi-Jun Chang, and Thatchaphol Saranurak for their work titled, \Improved Distributed Expander Decomposition and Nearly Optimal Triangle Enumeration" [19]; two best student paper awards were given to Yi-Jun Chang, Manuela Fischer, and Yufan Zheng for their work titled, \The Complexity of (Δ + 1) Coloring in Congested Clique, Massively Parallel Computation, and Centralized Local Computation" [17] which was co-authored with Mohsen Gha ari, and Jara Uitto, and to Michal Dory and Dean Leitersdorf for the work on \Fast Approximate Shortest Paths in the Congested Clique" [16] which was co-authored with Keren Censor-Hillel, and Janne H. Korhonen. Congratulations to all the awardees and a special congratulations to Yi-Jun Chang for having received both awards! This review would be incomplete without mentioning perhaps one of the most notable results in the eld in recent years which was uploaded to the online archive just days before the conference gathered, and which was not presented at PODC 2019 but a ected many works presented at the conference: the work titled, ¶olylogarithmic-Time Deterministic Network Decomposition and Distributed Derandomization" [48] by Vaclav Rozhon, and Mohsen Gha ari. Throughout the entire conference there was talk regarding the implications of this work, culminating with perhaps one of the more memorable moments of PODC 2019, where Mohsen described this result during his talk on a di erent paper which he co-authored with Fabian Kuhn - Mohsen quoted from his and Kuhn's paper [31]: \we provide results that are in some sense the strongest that one can achieve, barring a major breakthrough", and on the next slide was that major breakthrough - a picture of Vaclav Rozhon along with the rst page of [48]. Congratulations to the authors on this work! We hope that this review will give readers the opportunity to experience some of PODC 2019 and potentially attend the conference in future years. Thank you to the organizers and authors for a captivating and though-provoking conference!

Winner of the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2019 Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference: Collaborating in a Continuous Present: Language and the Performing Body in Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts

The Journal of American CultureVolume 42, Issue 4 p. 335-344 Original Article Winner of the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2019 Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference: Collaborating in a Continuous Present: Language and the Performing Body in Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts Jocelyn E. Marshall, Jocelyn E. MarshallSearch for more papers by this author Jocelyn E. Marshall, Jocelyn E. MarshallSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 December 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13096Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume42, Issue4December 2019Pages 335-344 RelatedInformation

Reflections on "a control-theoretic approach to flow control"

This article discusses the events that led to the publication of my paper 'A Control-Theoretic Approach to Flow Control' that won the Best Student Paper Award in 1991 and a Test-of-Time Award in 2007.

ET&C Best Paper of 2018

The gut microbiome and aquatic toxicology: an emerging concept for environmental health Ondrej Adamovsky, Amanda N. Buerger, Alexis M. Wormington, Naomi Ector, Robert J. Griffitt, Joseph H. Bisesi Jr., and Christopher J. Martyniuk DOI: 10.1002/etc.4249 Best Paper Award co-winner Ondrej Adamovsky. Best Paper Award co-winner Amanda N. Buerger. Willie J.G.M Peijnenburg Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Bilthoven, The Netherlands Hummingbirds and bumble bees exposed to neonicotinoid and organophosphate insecticides in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada C.A. Bishop, A.J. Moran, M.C. Toshack, E. Elle, F. Maisonneuve, and J.E. Elliott DOI:10.1002/etc.4174. Review of atrazine sampling by polar organic chemical integrative samplers and Chemcatcher K. Booij and S. Chen DOI:10.1002/etc.4160 The acute toxicity of major ion salts to Ceriodaphnia dubia. III. Mathematical models for mixture toxicity R.J. Erickson, D.R. Mount, T.L. Highland, J.R. Hockett, D.J. Hoff, C.T. Jenson, T.J. Norberg-King, and K.N. Peterson DOI:10.1002/etc.3953 When significance becomes insignificant: Effect sizes and their uncertainties in Bayesian and frequentist frameworks as an alternative approach when analyzing ecotoxicological data A. Feckler, M. Low, J.P. Zubrod, and M. Bundschuh DOI:10.1002/etc.4127 Importance of growth rate on mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl bioaccumulation in fish J. Li, G.D. Haffner, G. Paterson, D.M. Walters, M.D. Burtnyk, and K.G. Drouillard DOI:10.1002/etc.4114 Evaluation of the use of bias factors with water monitoring data P.L. Mosquin, J. Aldworth, and W. Chen DOI:10.1002/etc.4154 Fate, uptake, and distribution of nanoencapsulated pesticides in soil–earthworm systems and implications for environmental risk assessment M.A. Mohd Firdaus, A. Agatz, M.E. Hodson, O.S. Al-Khazrajy, and A.B. Boxall DOI:10.1002/etc.4094. A framework for ecological risk assessment of metal mixtures in aquatic systems C. Nys, T. Van Regenmortel, C.R. Janssen, K. Oorts, E. Smolders, and K.A. De Schamphelaere DOI:10.1002/etc.4039 Understanding sources of methylmercury in songbirds with stable mercury isotopes: Challenges and future directions M.T. Tsui, E.M. Adams, A.K. Jackson, D.C. Evers, J.D. Blum, and S.J. Balogh DOI:10.1002/etc.3941 The combined and interactive effects of zinc, temperature, and phosphorus on the structure and functioning of a freshwater community D. Van de Perre, I. Roessink, C.R. Janssen, E. Smolders, F. De Laender, P.J. Van den Brink, and K.A. De Schamphelaere DOI:10.1002/etc.4201. Fate, uptake, and distribution of nanoencapsulated pesticides in soil–earthworm systems and implications for environmental risk assessment. Mohd Anuar Mohd Firdaus, Annika Agatz, Mark E. Hodson, Omar S.A. Al-Khazrajy, and Alistair B.A. Boxall Best Student Paper Award winner Mohd Anuar Mohd Firdaus.

Improving Correctional Strategies for Women at the Margins: Recommendations for an Intersectionally-Responsive Approach

ABSTRACTSince the early 1990s, an abundance of research and scholarship has been devoted toward developing “what works” in correctional assessment and rehabilitative treatment, including gender-responsive strategies for women. However, far less is known regarding the effects of such correctional strategies on women with intersectional identities (e.g., racially diverse, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender). Such considerations are important as marginalized women are disproportionately over-represented within the United States correctional population. This article seeks to advance correctional strategies for women through the application of an intersectional lens. First, a brief overview of gender-responsive correctional strategies and current limitations are provided. Next, intersectionality and intersectional criminology are summarized. Finally, recommendations for an intersectionally-responsive approach are presented to help improve correctional supervision and treatment for women at the margins.Note: An earlier version of this manuscript was awarded the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime Graduate Student Paper Award. I would like to acknowledge and thank my doctoral advisory committee for their guidance on this topic area: Drs. Emily Salisbury, Emily Troshynski, and Gillian Pinchevsky. I would also like to thank Dr. Dana Radatz for her feedback and support. Finally, I would like to thank the reviewers for their insight and constructive feedback that helped strengthen this manuscript.

Moonbit: Poetry from Apollo 11’s Computer Code

674 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) WORKS CITED “City Desk.” Science Fiction Weekly (14 Apr. 1940): 4. Donawerth, Jane. “Science Fiction by Women in the Early Pulps 1926-1930.” Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Ed. Jane L. Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1994. 137-52. ))))) and Carol Kolmerten. “Introduction. ” Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Ed. Jane L. Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1994. 1-14. “Fan Pseudonyms.” Golden Atom (May 1940): 13-14. “F.E. Hardart Types.” Spaceways (Oct. 1940): 22. “F.E. Hardart Writes.” Science Fiction Weekly (12 May 1940): 3. Guenther, Ernst. The Essential Oils. Vol. 6: Individual Essential Oils of the Plant Families. Toronto : Van Nostrand, 1952. Hall, Hal W. Sam Moskowitz: A Bibliography and a Guide. College Station, TX, 2017. Online. Hardart, F.E. “The August Number.” Science Fiction (Dec. 1939): 103. ))))). “The Beast in Space.” Comet (Jul. 1941): 82-89. ))))). “Dear Editor.” Strange Stories (June 1939): 124. ))))). “The Devil’s Pocket.” Astonishing Stories (June 1940): 35-43. ))))). “Early Science Fiction Stories.” Spaceways (Mar. 1940): 15. ))))). “The Hypnohorse.” Spaceways (Sep. 1940): 8-10. ))))). “Likes Human Interest.” Future Fiction (Jul. 1940): 66-67. ))))). “Oil from Birches.” Nature Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly with Popular Articles about Nature. 34.10 (Dec. 1941): 553-54, 578. ))))). “Why Amazing Leads.” Amazing Stories (Jan. 1940): 139. Lefanu, Sarah. In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. London: Women’s Press, 1988. Moskowitz, Sam. “The World Science Fiction Convention.” New Fandom 1.6 (Jul. 1939): 4-10. Santa Clara Conference. “The Social Responsibility of Engineers.” Technology and Culture 11.2 (1970): 241. Villiani, Jim. “The Woman Science Fiction Writer and the Non-Heroic Male Protagonist.” Patterns of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald M. Hassler. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont, 1983. 21-30. Yaszek, Lisa, and Patrick B. Sharp. “Introduction: New Work for New Women.” Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2016. vii-xxv. Moonbit: Poetry from Apollo 11’s Computer Code. Moonbit, by James Dodson and Rena Mosteirin, is a work of experimental poetry and prose based on the computer code used to direct Apollo 11 to the moon on 20 July 1969. A full account can be found in the July issue of the Dartmouth News. Punctum Books, the publisher, describes the work as a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and rewritings of a singular text, the source code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer or the ‘AGC.’ Moonbit remarks and remixes the code that 675 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE made space travel possible. Half of the work is erasure poetry that uses the AGC code as the source text, building on the premise that code can speak beyond its functional purpose. Dobson and Mosteirin have taken their title from an onboard toggle switch—called a moonbit—that allowed the Apollo astronauts to alternate their representation of space. One position put the Earth at the center of the universe; the other placed the moon in that central spot. A print and online version of Moonbit is available from Punctum, an independent open-access publisher. Says Dobson, “Moonbit will not get you to the moon, but seeks to reclaim the text that did this, as a site for artistic exploration.”—Charlotte Albright, Dartmouth Magazine 2018 Science Fiction Research Association Awards. At the annual conference in June 2019, the 2018 SFRA Awards were presented. The winner of the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to sf and fantasy scholarship was John Rieder, and Sherryl Vint received the Thomas D. Clareson award for distinguished service. For the best critical essay-length work of the year, Jed Mayer received the Pioneer Award for “The Weird Ecologies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” SFS 45.2 (2018): 229-43. The Student Paper Award went to Grant Dempsey for “‘Did they tell you I can Floak?’: Living Between Always and Sometimes in China Miéville’s Embassytown.” The Mary Kay Bray award for...

Back to the Past

Back to the Past Jeraldine R. Kraver To begin our story: publication of The CEA Critic, originally The Newsletter of the College English Association, began in 1939, a few months after the CEA was founded in December 1938. Meanwhile, for its first 30 years, the CEA met for its conference alongside its older and more established sibling, the Modern Language Association (MLA). However, in 1970, the CEA Board of Directors decided that the distinctions between the two organizations were important enough that the CEA would go its own way and sponsor an annual gathering all by itself. In his "pastoral" letter to the membership, published in The Critic (32.6), new President Edward Huberman announced, "Let me begin with the exciting venture which will launch us into the 70's with a fresh measure of independence. For the first time in its history, CEA will hold a national meeting away from the MLA." He added, "The CEA of the 70's would move in new directions and assert its integrity and independence." In that spirit, the CEA met for the first time at the University of Notre Dame on April 24 and 25, 1970. The theme for the conference was, appropriately, "Contemporary Relevance and the Teaching of Literature." The success of the CEA's inaugural meeting was affirmed in the May 1970 issue of The Critic (32.8). There, in a letter titled, "Thoughts on CEA's Notre Dame Meeting," Paul Schlueter, from the University of Evansville, affirmed that the CEA's decision to free itself from the MLA was "a wise one." In his review of the meeting, he singles out the presence of "radically minded, usually younger, teachers concerned primarily with arousing the study of literature from its torpor and into the fray for ethnic studies, women's rights, and political dedication." Highly visible among these young radicals, Schlueter notes, were a number of women who. he describes as especially forthright in their expressions of urgency in the profession's solving (or at least becoming aware of) such thorny problems as hiring women on the same prejudice-free basis as hiring men. On several occasions, a rather tactless and embarrassing letter from a male department chairman was read and discussed, with the CEA deploring such prejudicial actions in a unanimous vote. The same radicalism that inspired the first step away from the MLA in 1938 was clearly alive and well three decades later. (Gotta love the CEA!) [End Page vii] This past spring, the CEA Conference convened, just as it had a half-century previously, this time in New Orleans, where participants celebrated far more than the organization's longevity. At the heart of the gathering was an affirmation of what drives each member of the CEA, which is that there is no teaching without scholarship and no scholarship without teaching. The conference's theme, "Vision and Revision," offered an opportunity to look backwards and well as forwards, and the results did not disappoint. At the President's Forum, for example, no fewer than five former Executive Directors reflected on the place of the CEA in English studies. And, whereas many of the papers and panels focused on the work of canonical American and British writers, an equal number investigated the work of new and global voices and alternative genres. On Thursday, one could hear a paper on Dickens's Bleak House at 11:00 a.m. and another on A. K. Summers' graphic memoir, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag, at 3:15 that same afternoon. The Program Overview is all one needed to see the organization's inclusiveness in action: panels focused on traditional areas of language and literature, composition and rhetoric, and pedagogy as well as newer fields in our discipline, including Disability and Trauma Studies and Visual and Material Culture. Young scholars, too, were far from ignored, with the Karen Lentz Madison Award acknowledging papers presented by adjunct or contingent faculty and the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award honoring scholars-in-training. The pages of these Proceedings reflect the spirit of the 50th annual conference. As has been the case since our first Proceedings issue in 2012, the process of collecting and...

2018 APCG Student Paper Awards

2018 APCG Student Paper Awards

2018 AfAA Student Paper Awards

Anthropology NewsVolume 60, Issue 1 p. e144-e147 January/February Online Content 2018 AfAA Student Paper Awards Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Search for more papers by this authorJ.R. Osborn, Search for more papers by this author Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Search for more papers by this authorJ.R. Osborn, Search for more papers by this author First published: 17 December 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.1081 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume60, Issue1Special Issue: LoveJanuary/February 2019Pages e144-e147 RelatedInformation

Costa Receives 2018 Harry Elderfield Student Paper Award

Kassandra Costa will receive the 2018 Harry Elderfield Student Paper Award at AGU's Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes “an exemplary manuscript from a Ph.D. graduate student and exceptional promise for continued contributions in the fields of paleoceanography and/or paleoclimatology.”

IEEE NetSoft 2017 special issue: Softwarization sustaining a hyper‐connected world: En route to 5G

IEEE NetSoft 2017 special issue: Softwarization sustaining a hyper‐connected world: En route to 5G

Winner of the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2018 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference: The “Amusement Economist:” J.H. Haverly and the Modernization of the American Minstrel Show

Winner of the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2018 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference: The “Amusement Economist:” J.H. Haverly and the Modernization of the American Minstrel Show

ASR News & Announcements

The theme for this year’s annual meeting is “Strengthening Weak Ties to other Sociological Subdisciplines.” The meeting will be held on August 11–13, 2018 at the Sofitel Philadelphia Hotel, located in the heart of downtown. Our President, Daniel V. A. Olson, and Program Chair, Jerry Park, have promised to make this year’s meeting unique in terms of both its intellectual content and social gatherings. We can look forward to series of Presidential Sessions focused on strengthening the intersection of the sociology of religion with other sociological disciplines. As usual, we will begin our meeting with an Opening Night Reception on Saturday, August 11, which will include an awards ceremony recognizing the winners of the McNamara Student Paper Award, Distinguished Article Award, and ASR’s newest recognition, the Lifetime Achievement Award. The Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Jennifer Glass, Barbara Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts and Executive Director of the Council on Contemporary Families at the University of Texas—Austin.

Overview of the ASSETS 2017 conference

This year was the 19th edition of the ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2017), which took place in October in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The ASSETS conference is the premier computing research conference exploring the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults. We set a new attendance this year with 200 participants from across the globe. In addition to a rich technical program, an increase in industrial sponsorship allowed the conference to support several receptions, including an event at the National Federation of the Blind on Halloween evening. SIGACCESS made several awards during this year's conference. The SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award was awarded to Keith Edwards, Elizabeth Mynatt and Kathryn Stockton for their 1994 paper "Providing access to graphical user interfaces---not graphical screens". This paper is one of the first to raise and tackle the challenge of providing screen reader capabilities in graphical user interfaces. It proposes that translation of the GUI should be done at a semantic, rather than syntactic level. The 2017 Best Paper Award went to "Evaluating the Usability of Automatically Generated Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing" by Sushant Kafle and Matt Huenerfauth. The 2017 Best Student Paper Award went to "Technology-Mediated Sight: A Case Study of Early Adopters of a Low Vision Assistive Technology" by Annuska Zolyomi, Anushree Shukla, and Jaime Snyder. We thank Clayton Lewis from University of Colorado Boulder for Chairing the SIGACCESS Awards Committee and Anne Marie Piper from Northwestern University for chairing the 2017 ASSETS Best Papers Committee.

The American Society of Missiology Graduate Student Paper Award

The American Society of Missiology Graduate Student Paper Award

2017 APCG Student Paper Awards

2017 APCG Student Paper Awards