Paris Kanellakis Award
The Paris Kanellakis Price ( Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ) is a computer science prize of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ) for the theoretical achievements that have a significant impact in the practice of computing. It is named after the computer Paris Kanellakis (1953 to 1995), a professor of computer science at Brown University, who died in a plane crash in South America in 1995 (American Airlines flight 965 ), and donated by his family. The prize of $ 5,000 prize is awarded since 1996.