Received the best paper award of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, held in Yokohama, Japan, June 1992   Received the 1991-1992 University of Houston - Clear Lake President's Distinguished Teaching Award   Received the 1992 "Figment for Imagination and Hard Work" award from the office of the sponsored programs of the University of Houston - Clear Lake   Nominated by the Clear-lake Council of Technical Societies for the 1989 Technical Educator of the Year Award