Mitch Sisle and Bernard Zeigler at the Garden Room of the Sheraton Tucson
| The "McLeod Founders Award for Distinguished
Service to the Profession" was awarded by the Society
for Computer Simulation International Board of Directors on July 15,
1999 to Professor Bernard P. Zeigler of the
Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department of the University
of Arizona. The award was presented by Mitch Sisle, Chair of the Awards
Committee of the SCSI, at the Artificial
Intelligence, Simulation and Planning for High Autonomy Conference
held in Tucson on March 6, 2000. The award inscription reads: "Bernard
P. Zeigler, Pioneer, Visionary, Educator, and preeminent researcher in
Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation." The award ceremony was part of
a sixtieth birthday celebration for Professor Zeigler organized by Professors
Hessam Sarjoughian, Francois Cellier, Jerzy Rozenblit, and Michael Marefat
of the ECE Department.
The McLeod Founders award has been given only five times in the fifty years of the society’s existence. It was established to honor the society’s founder, John McLeod, who was the first recipient. Indicative of the tradition of simulation in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Arizona, one of the earlier recipients was Granino Korn, now an Emeritus Professor in the Department. Before this year’s award, the last person to receive the honor it was General Paul Gorman, the force behind the adoption of Distributed Interactive Simulation widely adopted within the Department of Defense. |
Mitch Sisle and Bernard Zeigler at the Garden Room of the Sheraton Tucson