Stuart
Elliot Madnick
IQ
Best Paper Award Announced
November
15, 2006
CAMBRIDGE,
Massachusetts, USA – On Saturday,
November 11, at the 11th annual International
Conference on Information Quality
(ICIQ) held at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Dr. Richard Wang, founder
of the ICIQ conference and Director
of the Information Quality program
in MIT’s Engineering Systems
Division, announced the establishment
of the Stuart Elliot Madnick IQ Best
Paper Award.
From
left to right: Leo Pipino, Stuart
Madnick, Valerie Sessions |
This
award will further the emerging field
of Information Quality (IQ) and encourage
high-quality papers to be published
in this premier IQ conference. An
initial endowment was provided by
the MIT Information Quality program.
The award was named to recognize the
distinguished contributions by Stuart
Madnick, the John Norris Maguire Professor
of Information Technology, MIT Sloan
School of Management and Professor
of Engineering Systems, MIT School
of Engineering. Prof. Madnick was
one of the founders of the Information
Quality field and has been instrumental
in all initiatives leading to the
above three milestones.
Also
at the conference, Prof. Leo Pipino,
chairman of the 2006 Madnick Best
IQ Paper Award committee, announced
that this year the award was given
to two papers that tied for best paper:
"Delivering Data On Time: The
Assurant Health Case" by Pravin
Nadkarni of Assurant, Inc. and "The
Effects of Data Quality on Machine
Learning Algorithms" by Valerie
Sessions and Marco Valtorta of the
University of South Carolina.
During
his luncheon speech, Prof. Madnick
reported that the Publications Board
of the Association of Computing Machinery
(ACM)1
has officially approved the proposal
for a new ACM Journal of Data
and Information Quality, which
grew out of efforts initiated by the
MIT Information Quality Program (http://MITIQ.MIT.EDU)
and the International Conference on
Information Quality (http://www.IQConference.org).
Prof.
Yang Lee of Northeastern University
and Prof. Madnick are the founding
Editors-in-Chief of the new journal.
1
ACM, established in 1947, is the world's
oldest and largest educational and
scientific computing society. Today,
ACM serves a membership of over 84,000
computing professionals and students
in more than 100 countries in all
areas of industry, academia, and government.
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