Two more deadlines for this years DAC are coming up in March. And don't forget the Marie Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award is still on March 9th.

The Work-in-progress (WIP) track allows researchers to get early feedback and present early results in poster sessions during DAC (which, I don't need to tell you, I hope, is at Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 3rd to 7th). The deadline for submission is March 12th 2012 (at 5pm Mountain Time if you want to go right to the wire). All the details including the application process are on this website here.

The second deadline is for the Dr A. Richard Newton Graduate Scholarship to Support Research in EDA. Each year DAC awards a scholarship of approximately $24K to support graduate reasearch in EDA. It is not available to undergraduates nor post-docs. In addition to obviously considering the quality of the student(s) and the research being proposed, priority is given to financial need, to maximise the impact of the award. The deadline for submissions is March 18th. Full details, including application forms are on this website here.

For those of you who have come to this industry recently, Richard Newton was one of the drivers of research in EDA at UC Berkeley for many years. He died at the young age of just 55 at the beginning of 2007. Unlike Steve Jobs, who had a form of pancreatic cancer that was potentially curable, Dr Newton had the agressive kind and died within 2 months of diagnosis. He started work on SPICE when he was still in Australia, where he was born, and he moved to Berkeley in 1975 eventually becoming Dean of the College of Engineering. DAC created the scholarship in his memory.