From cd4d22561c7b0f0c45d22a2c3694c5cc72a98841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:04:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention Wilkinson prize.

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     <a href="changes.html">here.</a></p>
 
     <dl>
+      <dt>
+          <strong>2007/07/16: Wilkinson Prize</strong>
+      </dt>
+      <dd>
+          The principal authors of deal.II&mdash;Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf
+	  Hartmann and Guido Kanscht&mdash;have received the <a
+	  href="http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/wilkinson/award/">J. H. Wilkinson
+	  Prize for Numerical Software</a> for their creation of and work on
+	  the deal.II library. The prize committee particularly noted the
+	  reliability and usability of the software and the qualitity of the
+	  documentation.
+	  <p>
+	  We want to take the opportunity to thank our user community for their
+	  support over the years that kept us working on this software. We
+	  consider this award motivation to continue this work!
+      </dd>
+
       <dt>
           <strong>2007/02/09: Support for previously unorientable meshes</strong>
       </dt>
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