2011 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award given to Hanan Samet

The ACM honors Hanan Samet with the 2011 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. The award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. This award has been given to Samet for his fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing that are ubiquitous in myriad areas, including databases, biomedical imaging, computer graphics and vision, geographic information systems, geometry, games, computational physics, and scientific computation.
See ACM press release, here/