• Doctoral Dissertation Award - September 30, 2008
• SIAM/ACM Award in Computational Science and Engineering - September 30, 2008
• ACM-Infosys Foundation Award - December 31, 2008
• ACM Advanced Member Grades
  • Fellows - September 9, 2008
  • Distinguished Engineer/Scientist/Member - July 31, 2008
  • Senior Member - May 31, 2008

Nominations Content

Nominations for the 2008 Awards should be submitted to the respective chairs listed below or to the ACM Awards Committee Liaison, Rosemary McGuinness (mcguinness@acm.org).

As a general rule, each nomination submitted should consist of at least the following items:

1. Name, address, and phone number of person making the nomination.
2. Name and address of candidate for whom an award is recommended.
3. A statement (between 200 and 500 words long) as to why the candidate deserves the particular award.
4. Supporting letters from a minimum of two endorsers.
5. For the Turing Award a minimum of three endorsement letters should be provided. Successful Turing Award nominations usually include substantive letters of support from a group of prominent individuals broadly representative of the candidate’s field.
6. For the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, a CV and listing of the candidate's Ph.D. students and their current positions are requested. It would be helpful to include the candidate's CV for all other award nominations.

Nominations for the 2008 awards should be submitted to the respective chairs listed below:

2008 Award Subcommittee Chairs and Members

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A.M. Turing Award:

Brian Randell, Chair
Newcastle University
School of Computing Science
Room 817, Claremont Tower
Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
+011-44-191-222-7923 – office
+011-44-191-222-8232 – fax
brian.randell at ncl.ac.uk

Committee Members:
Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Alan Kay
Vint Cerf, Google
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft
Ravi Sethi, Avaya Labs

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ACM - Infosys Foundation Award

Nominations Solicited

Nominations are invited for the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award. The ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences recognizes personal contributions by young scientists and system developers to a contemporary innovation that, through its depth, fundamental impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline. The award is accompanied by a prize of $150,000. Financial support for the award is provided by an endowment from the Infosys Foundation.

Nominations should include:

1. A current vitae, listing the age of the candidate, publications, patents, honors other awards, etc.
2. A nomination letter from the principal nominator, which describes the work of the nominee, and draws particular attention to the contributions which are seen as meriting the award.
3. Short supporting letters from at least three, and no more than five, endorsers. The letters should come from prominent individuals familiar with the nominee's contributions and no more than two from the same institution.

Please visit the ACM Awards site for additional information on ACM's award program.

Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the ACM – Infosys Foundation Award by December 31, 2008: Juris Hartmanis, jh at cs dot cornell dot edu

Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, Chair
Committee Members:
Susan L. Graham, University of California, Berkeley
Butler Lampson, Microsoft Corporation
Kurt Mehlhorn, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik
John Mitchell, Stanford University
Amit Singhal, Google Inc.
Andrew C. Yao, Tsinghua University

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Grace Murray Hopper Award:

Jennifer Rexford, Chair
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
35 Olden Street
CS-306
Princeton, NJ 08544
+1-609-258-5182 – office
+1-609-258-1771 – fax
jrex at cs dot princeton dot edu

Committee Members:
Martín Abadi, University of California Santa Cruz and Microsoft Research
Kelly Lyons, Univesity of Toronto
Gabriel (Gabby) Silberman, CA Labs

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Distinguished Service Award:

Gurindar Sohi, Chair
Dept. of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706-1685
+1-608-262-7985 – office
+1-608-262-9777 – fax
sohi at cs dot wisc dot edu

Committee Members:
Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University
Bryant York, Portland State University

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Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award:

Diana Marculescu, Chair
Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Electrical and Computing Eng.
Hamerschlag Hall, 2124
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
+1-412-268-1167 – office
+1-412-268-2859 – fax
dianam at ece dot cmu dot edu

Committee Members:
Ronald Boisvert, National Inst. of Standards and Technology
Vicki Hanson, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Pat Ryan, ACM

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Software System Award:

Michael Stonebraker, Chair
44 Byledge Rd
Manchester, NH 03104-2144
+1-603-232-3500
stonebraker at lcs dot mit dot edu

Committee Members:
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano
Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College

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Doctoral Dissertation Award:

Richard Karp, Chair
International Computer Science Inst.
1947 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
+1-510-642-4274 x 2973
karp at icsi dot berkeley dot edu

Committee Members:
Brian Bershad, University of Washington
Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
Martin Rinard, MIT
Bart Selman, Cornell University

For more details, see the Nomination Submission Procedures.

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Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award:

David Gries, Chair
Dept. of Computer Science
Cornell University
Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
+1-607-255-9207
gries at cs dot cornell dot edu

Committee Members:
Andries van Dam, Brown University Jeffrey Ullman, Gradiance Corp.

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Fellows:

Cherri Pancake, Chair
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Oregon State University
Kelley Engineering Center 2021
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
+1-541-737-2109
pancake at nacse dot org
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~pancake/

Committee Members:
Stephen Bourne, El Dorado Ventures
David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science
Avi Silberschatz, Yale University

For more details, see the ACM Guide For Fellow Nominations
For questions on the Fellows Program, contact Rosemary McGuinness: fellow@acm.org

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Distinguished Member:

Marc Snir, Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2248 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MC 258
201 North Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
+1-217-244-6568 – fax
snir at uiuc dot edu

Telle Whitney, Co-Chair
President
Anita Borg Institute
for Women and Technology
1501 Page Mill Rd., MS 1105
Palo Alto, CA 94304
+1-650-236-4758 – office
tellew at anitaborg dot org
www.anitaborg.org

Committee Members:
Adele Goldberg, Neometron
Robert Lefkowitz, Asurion
John Nolan, Craigfad
David Thomas, Bedarra
Robert A. Walker, Kent State University

For more details, see the Distinguished Member Nomination Guide
For questions on the Distinguished Member Program, contact Rosemary McGuinness: distinguished@acm.org

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Senior Member:

Robert A. Walker, Chair
Department of Computer Science
Kent State University
223 Math and CS Bldg. (MSB)
Kent, OH 44242
+1-330-672-9055 – office
Walker at cs dot kent dot edu
senior at acm dot org

Committee Members:
Reinaldo Bergamaschi, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Susan Rodger, Duke University
John Yen, Pennsylvania State University
Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

For more details, see the Senior Member Nomination Guide
For questions on the Senior Member Program, contact Rosemary McGuinness: senior@acm.org

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Gordon Bell Prize: Deadline for Competition – April 4, 2008 (abstracts)

James W. Demmel, Chair
University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science Division
737 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
+1-510-643-5386
demmel at cs dot berkeley dot edu

Committee Members:
David H. Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia

For more details, see the Gordon Bell Prize

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ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award:

Hal Abelson, Chair
Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
+1-617-253-5856
Hal at mit dot edu

Committee Members:
John Seely Brown
Katherine McKeown, Columbia University
Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell University

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Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award:

Rajeev Alur, Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
609 Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
+1-215-573-7483 - office
+1-215-573-0587– fax
alur at cis dot upenn dot edu

Committee Members:
Edmund M. Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University
Yossi Matias, Google

For more details, see the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award

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ACM – IEEE CS Eckert Mauchly Award:

Steve Scott, Chair
Cray Inc.
1050 Lowater Rd.
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
+1-715-726-4757 office
sscott at cray dot com

ACM Representatives:
Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University

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International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

David S. Wise, Chair
Computer Science Department
Indiana University
Lindley Hall 330H
150 South Woodlawn Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
+1-812-855-4866 - office
+1-812-855-4829 – fax
dswise at acm dot org

Committee Members:
Cynthia Brown, Portland State University

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Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
(Biennial)

Nina Bhatti, Chair
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
+1-650-857-3390 - office
+1-650-852-3791 - fax
nina dot bhatti at hpl dot hp dot com

Committee Members:
Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen
David Shmoys, Cornell University
Barbara Simons
Michael Ubell, Oracle
Sabine Susstrunk, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
(Biennial)

J. M. Littleton
SIAM
+1-215-382-9800 ext. 303
littleton at siam dot org

Committee Members:
Richard J. Hanson
Mac Hyman, Los Alamos National Lab.
Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas

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Canvassing Subcommittee I
A.M. Turing, Distinguished Service,
Outstanding Contribution to ACM,
ACM Fellows

Martin Abadi
Computer Science Department
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
+1 831 459 1489 - office
abadi at cs dot ucsc dot edu
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~abadi/home.html

Canvassing Subcommittee II
Software System, Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice,
SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
ACM/IEEE Eckert Mauchly, ACM Fellows

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
LRI - Bat 490
Universite’ Paris-Sud
91405 ORSAY Cedex
FRANCE
+33 1 69 15 69 10 - office
+33 1 69 15 65 86 - fax
mbl at lri dot fr

Canvassing Subcommittee III
Grace Murray Hopper, Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator,
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell, Doctoral Dissertation,
Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions
within Computer Science and Informatics,
ACM Fellows

Mary Gray Baker
HP Labs
1501 Page Mill Road
Mail Stop 1183
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126
+1-650-857-4128
Mary dot Baker at hp dot com

Award Committee Co-Chair:

C.C. Gotlieb
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1A4
+1-416-978-2986 – office
+1-416-978-1931 – fax
ccg at cs dot toronto dot edu

Award Committee Co-Chair:

James J. Horning
Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Security Operation
SPARTA, Inc.
710 Lakeway Drive, Suite 195
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-4013
+1-408-774-1111, x102 - office
+1-408-774-9311 - fax
horning at acm dot org

SGB Award Committee Liaison:

Robert A. Walker
Department of Computer Science
223 Math and CS Bldg. (MSB)
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
+1-330-672-9055 – office
walker at cs dot kent dot edu