Editorial : " Michie - Turing " IS 2014 Award Recipient : Janez Grad

1977 Editorial Boards Informatica is a journal primarily covering intelligent systems in the European computer science, informatics and cognitive community ; scientific and educational as well as technical, commercial and industrial. Its basic aim is to enhance communications between different European structures on the basis of equal rights and international refereeing. It publishes scientific papers accepted by at least two referees outside the author's country. In addition , it contains information about conferences, opinions, critical examinations of existing publications and news. Finally, major practical achievements and innovations in the computer and information industry are presented through commercial publications as well as through independent evaluations. Editing and refereeing are distributed. Each editor from the Editorial Board can conduct the refereeing process by appointing two new referees or referees from the Board of Referees or Editorial Board. Referees should not be from the author's country. If new referees are appointed, their names will appear in the list of referees. Each paper bears the name of the editor who appointed the referees. Each editor can propose new members for the Editorial Board or referees. Editors and referees inactive for a longer period can be automatically replaced. Changes in the Editorial Board are confirmed by the Executive Editors. The coordination necessary is made through the Executive Editors who examine the reviews, sort the accepted articles and maintain appropriate international distribution. It is my honour and privilege to introduce the 2014 "Donald Michie and Alan Turing" prize recipient Janez Grad for Life Achievements in Slovenian Information Society (http://is.ijs.si/is_awards.html), aka "Michie-Turing" Award. The name of the prize was proposed by Stephen Muggleton when we were discussing Slovenian international information-society events. Following a long analysis with colleagues we have set the nomination procedure inspired by the procedure Nobel prizes are awarded. Of course, our award cannot compete with the best worldwide awards like the Turing award, the »Nobel prize« for computing. Nevertheless, we wanted to highlight and emphasise the contributions of Donald Michie and Alan Turing on the one side, and our achievements in the fields of information society, computing, and informatics on the other side. The tuning of the procedure and obtaining the approval from the descendants of Donald Michie and Alan Turing demanded quite some time. At this point I would like to express my gratitude to all colleagues involved. The name "Michie-Turing" Award was coined from Alan Turing, computer »Einstein«, and Donald Michie, Turing's …