ACM Awards Recognize Computer Scientists for Innovations that Have Real World Impact
ACM Awards
ACM
recognizes excellence through its eminent series of awards for outstanding
technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science
and information technology.
ACM Awards Presentation
2009
ACM Awards and Recipients
The ACM A.M Turing Award � Charles P. Thacker
The ACM - Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences - Eric
Brewer
The Paris
Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award - Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway
The Software System Award - VMware Workstation 1.0
The ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award - Michael Jordan
The Grace Murray Hopper Award - Tim Roughgarden
The Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award - Matthias
Felleisen
The Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within
Computer Science and Informatics - Gregory D. Abowd
The Distinguished Service Award - Edward Lazowska
The Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award - Moshe Y. Vardi
The Doctoral Dissertation Award � Craig Gentry
2010 ACM Award
The ACM Presidential Awards - Mathai Joseph and Elaine Weyuker
2010-2011 ACM Award
The 2010-2011 Athena Lecturer Award � Mary Jane Irwin
2010 ACM � IEEE-CS Award
The 2010 Eckert-Mauchly Award - William J. Dally
Complete list of ACM Awards Recipients
The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award -
Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway
For their
development of practice-oriented provable security, which has resulted in high
quality, cost-effective cryptography, a key component for Internet security in
an era of explosive growth in online transactions.
Bellare,
a professor at the University of California San Diego, and Rogaway, a professor at the
University of California Davis, adapted modern
cryptographic theory to make it more applicable for reducing the risk of cyber
attacks in the real world.
The
Kanellakis Award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that significantly
affect the practice of computing.
The Software System Award - VMware
Workstation 1.0
For
bringing virtualization technology to modern computing environments, spurring a
shift to virtual-machine architectures, and allowing users to efficiently run
multiple operating systems on their desktops. Stanford University
professor Mendel Rosenblum and his students realized that virtual-machine
technology could help with many of the problems suffered by modern computing
environments.
This
breakthrough led to their founding of VMware Inc. and the design and
implementation of its first product by Rosenblum and his colleagues Edouard
Bugnion, Scott Devine, Jeremy Sugerman, and Edward Wang. The technology was
subsequently adopted by large-scale data-center operators to increase the
efficiency and security of shared computational resources, and has caused
leading processor vendors to modify their designs to support
virtualization.
The
Software System Award is given to an institution or individuals recognized for
developing software systems that have had a lasting influence, reflected in
contributions to concepts and/or commercial acceptance.
The ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award -
Michael Jordan
For
fundamental advances in statistical machine learning, a field which develops
computational methods for inference and decision-making based on data. Jordan,
a professor at the University of California, Berkeley,
has focused on graphical models, kernel machines and Bayesian nonparametric
statistics.
He has
developed applications of these methods to a variety of problem areas in
computational biology, including protein structure and function, population
genetics and genomics. His work has had
impact in signal processing, information retrieval, computational vision and
natural language processing. He has also
studied learning in the domain of human motor control.
The
Newell Award recognizes career contributions that have breadth within computer
science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines.
The Grace Murray Hopper Award -
Tim Roughgarden
For
introducing novel techniques that quantify lost efficiency with the uncoordinated
behavior of network users who act in their own self-interest. His research has built a bridge between
theoretical computer science and the networking research community that has the
potential to capture the important role of strategic behavior on the design and
analysis of future networks.
Roughgarden
is an assistant professor at Stanford
University, whose book,
�Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy�, outlines several approaches to
limiting the efficiency loss in large networks resulting from self-interested
users.
The
Hopper Award recognizes the outstanding young computer professional of the
year.
The Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding
Educator Award - Matthias Felleisen
For his
visionary and long-standing contributions to K-12 outreach programs. In 1995,
he founded the TeachScheme! project,
which has trained over 700 educators; he was also instrumental in setting up
the Bootcamp after-school programs for
students in groups that are underrepresented in the computing
field.
A Trustee
Professor at Northeastern
University, Felleisen
contributed the innovative idea of a
design recipe to the computing curriculum, a set of steps that helps
students focus on problem solving and logical thinking instead of computer details.
The
Karlstrom Award recognizes educators who advanced new teaching methodologies;
effected new curriculum development in Computer Science and Engineering; or
contributed to ACM�s educational mission.
The Eugene L. Lawler Award for
Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics - Gregory D.
Abowd
For
promoting a vision of health care and education that incorporates the use of
advanced information technologies to address difficult challenges relating to
the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral disorders, such as autism, as well as
the assessment of behavioral change within complex social environments.
A
professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Abowd�s work in autism has
resulted in the development and optimization of behavioral evaluation protocols
for use by parents, caregivers, educators, and health care clinicians within
naturalistic environments, and he has supported the commercialization of work
in this area.
The
Lawler Award, given every two years for humanitarian contributions, recognizes
individuals or groups who have made a significant contribution using computing
technology.
The Distinguished Service Award - Edward Lazowska
For his wide-ranging service to the computing community and his long-standing advocacy for this community at the national level.
The Distinguished Service Award is given for significant and valuable service to the computing community at large.
The Outstanding Contribution Award - Moshe Y. Vardi
For his leadership in restructuring ACM's flagship publication, Communications of the ACM, into a more effective communications vehicle for the global computing discipline, and for organizing an influential, systematic analysis of offshoring that helped reinforce the case that computing plays a fundamental role in defining success in a competitive global economy.
The Outstanding Contribution Award is presented annually to up to three individuals who have provided significant and valuable service to ACM.
The Doctoral Dissertation Award � Craig Gentry
For his breakthrough scheme that solves a central problem in cryptography - enabling computer systems to perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it.
Gentry, who was nominated by Stanford University, is a research staff member in the Cryptography group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
The Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering.
The ACM Presidential Awards - Mathai Joseph and Elaine Weyuker
Mathai Joseph, Tata Consultancy Services, awarded for his devoted commitment to establishing an ACM presence in India. He was instrumental in the formation of the ACM India Council, launched in Bangalore in January 2010. The Council serves as an example of best practices as ACM moves forward with its international strategy. Joseph serves ACM as a member-at-large on ACM Council, to which he was elected in 2008.
Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Research, awarded for her tireless efforts in the development and growth of the ACM Committee on Women in Computing. Under her guidance, she built a network of enthusiastic volunteers to help propel ACM-W forward, in the process creating many new ideas for activities, awards, and scholarships to cultivate and celebrate women seeking careers in computing.
The ACM Presidential Awards are given to leaders of Information Technology whose actions and achievements serve as paragons for the field. Recipients have demonstrated generosity, creativity and dedication to their respective missions.
The 2010-2011 Athena Lecturer Award � Mary Jane Irwin
For her outstanding research contributions to computer-aided design, computer arithmetic, and computer architecture. Irwin designed novel computer structures that are used in laptops to vastly improve the performance of image and speech applications. She also developed techniques to automate computer-aided design (CAD) activities, which have been assimilated by the CAD industry.
The Athena Lecturer Award, given by ACM-W, recognizes women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. The award includes an honorarium provided by Google, Inc.
The 2010 Eckert-Mauchly Award - William J. Dally
For his innovative contributions to the architecture of interconnection networks and parallel computers.
Dally developed the system and network architecture, signaling, routing, and synchronization technology that is found in most large parallel computers today. He also introduced the Imagine processor, which employs stream processing architecture, providing high- performance computing with power, speed, and efficiency.
The Eckert-Mauchly Award, co-sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, recognizes contributions to computer and digital systems architecture.
Read the June 16, 2010 Awards Press Release
Read the May 12, 2010 Awards Press Release
Read the April 14, 2010 Awards Press Release
Read the March 30, 2010 Awards Press Release
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About ACM
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Computing Machinery, is the world�s largest educational and scientific
computing society, uniting educators, researchers and professionals to inspire
dialogue, share resources and address the field�s challenges. ACM strengthens
the computing profession�s collective voice through strong leadership,
promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence.
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for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.
