Shu Tezuka, Joos Heintz, Bart Kuijpers, and Andrés Rojas Paredes Share the 2013 Best Paper Award

The Award Committee – Michael Gnewuch, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and Friedrich Pillichshammer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria – determined that the following two papers exhibited exceptional merit and therefore awarded the prize to: ShuTezuka for his paper ‘‘On the discrepancy of generalizedNiederreiter sequences’’, which appeared in June–August, 2013. Vol. 29, pp. 240–247. Joos Heintz, Bart Kuijpers, and Andres Rojas Paredes for their paper ‘‘Software engineering and complexity in effective Algebraic Geometry’’, which appeared in February, 2013. Vol. 29, pp. 92–138. The $3000 prize will be divided between the winners. Each author will also receive a plaque.