During the 50th DAC award banquet on June 5, 2013, Prof. Jason Cong received an DAC Prolific Author Award -- Club 40, which are given to authors with 40 or more papers in the 50-year history of the Design Automation Conference (DAC). Five other researchers in the Club 40 are Robert K. Brayton, Yao-Wen Chang, Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng, Andrew B. Kahng, and Martin D. F. Wong.