Trivedi wins 2024 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing

Kishor Trivedi, the Hudson Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, has won the 2024 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing for his paper titled “A methodology for detection and estimation of software aging.”

The award has been given annually since 2012 by the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance to recognize outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of dependable computing.

Trivedi’s paper proposes a methodology for the detection and estimation of “software aging” in the UNIX operating system so that it can be counteracted to restore performance. The phenomenon refers to the accumulation of errors during the execution of the software, which eventually results in its crash. Although the tools described in the paper are specific to UNIX, the techniques can be used for detection and estimation of aging in other software as well.

For the past 45 years, Trivedi has been a fixture at Duke, first in the computer science department before moving to the electrical and computer engineering department in 1991. In that time, he has authored and published several textbooks on the subject of computer performance and reliability. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of the AAAS. He has also won the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award  and the IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award.