The 2018 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing goes to Bowen Alpern and Fred B. Schneider for their paper: Defining liveness, published in Information Processing Letters 21(4), October 1985.
The ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award for 2018 goes to the ASPLOS 2000 paper: OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage. The authors are John Kubiatowicz, David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Wells, and Ben Zhao
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