The Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with BCS, annually selects for publication the best British PhD/DPhil dissertations in computer science and publishes the winning dissertation and runner up submission on the BCS website.

Whenever possible, the prize winner receives his/her award at the prestigious BCS Roger Needham Lecture, which takes place annually at the Royal Society in the autumn.

After a rigorous review process involving international experts, the judging panel selects three dissertations that are regarded as exemplary, and one overall winner from the submissions.

Over forty theses have been selected for publication since the scheme began in 1990.

2010 submission deadline: 9 April 2010

The winners from 2009 were announced as follows:

Winner:

• 'Using Machine-Learning to Efficiently Explore the Architecture/Compiler Co-Design Space' (PDF)
  Christophe Dubach, University of Edinburgh

Runners up:

1. 'Diversity and Regularization in Neural Network Ensembles' (PDF)
   Huanhuan Chen, University of Birmingham
2. 'Geometric and Probabilistic Methods for Non-Euclidean Image Analysis'
   Fan Zhang, University of York
3. 'Data Reuse and Parallelism in Hardware Compilation' (PDF)
   Qiang Liu, Imperial College

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