This prize is in memory of Brendan Murphy, who was an outstanding researcher and mountaineer known to many in the communications and distributed systems research community, and a regular participant at MSN since its inception.
Rutherford labs – at end of the CHARISMA project. Brendan in the Centre. 1994
Winners:
- 2024 Karolina Skrivankova (UCL) (Judges: Miguel Rio, Eve Schooler, Tim Chown)
- 2023: Chris Jensen (Cambridge) (Judges: Ian Wakeman, Noa Zilberman, Nishanth Sastry)
- 2022: Jonatan Langlet (QMUL) (Judges: Miguel Rio, Anna Maria Mandalari, Joel Obstfeld)
- 2021: Alec Diallo (Edinburgh) (Judges: Eiko Yoneki, George Parisis, Tim Chown)
- 2020: Vivian Band (Glasgow) and Mario Cekic (Cambridge) (Judges: Richard Clegg, Hamed Haddadi, Iain Phillips, Gareth Tyson)
- 2019: Naomi Arnold (QMUL) and Donald Robertson (St Andrews) (Judges: Eiko Yoneki, Marwan Fayed, Vasileios Giotsas)
- 2018: Rui Li (Edinburgh) (Judges: Noa Zilberman, Eiko Yoneki, James Sterbenz)
- 2017: Xenofon Foukas (Edinburgh) (Judges: Gareth Tyson, Eiko Yoneki, Posco Tso)
- 2016: Timm Boettger (QMUL) (Judges: Hakim Weatherspoon, Andrew Moore, Andrew Scott)
- 2015: Kleomenis Katevas (QMUL) & Georgios Nikolaidis (UCL) (Judges : Eiko Yoneki, Tristan Henderson, Richard Clegg, Haris Rotsos)
- 2014: Lynne Salameh, UCL CS (Judges: James Sterbenz, Richard Clegg, Mirco Musolesi)
- 2013: Gareth Tyson, QMUL
- 2012: Matthew Grosvenor, Cambridge
- 2011: Greg Bigwood, St Andrews
- 2010: Robert Watson & Derek Murray, Cambridge
- 2009: Raul Landa (UCL EE) and John Tang (Cambridge)
- 2008: Giacomo Bernardi (Edinburgh)
- 2007: Richard Clegg, UCL EE
- 2006: Ettore Ferranti, Birkbeck
- 2005: Aleksander Lazarevic, UCL EE
- 2004: Venus Shum, UCL EE
- 2003: Ibiso Wokoma, UCL EE