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Award Nominations

Please note that the deadline for submission of nominations for 2009 is November 30, 2009 for all awards, unless otherwise indicated.

Please note the following exceptions:

  • Doctoral Dissertation Award - October 30, 2009
  • SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering - September 30, 2010
  • ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award – March 2010
  • ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award - July 1, 2009
  • ACM Advanced Member Grades
    • Fellows - September 1, 2009
    • Distinguished Member - July 31, 2009
    • Senior Member - August 31, 2009

Nominations Content

Nominations for the 2009 Awards should be submitted electronically 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 2009 awards should be submitted to the respective chairs listed below:

2009 Award Subcommittee Chairs and Members


A.M. Turing Award:

    Alan Kay, Chair
    turing-award at vpri.org
    Committee Members:
    Brian Randell, Newcastle University
    Vint Cerf, Google
    Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft
    Ravi Sethi, Avaya Labs
    Frances E. Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita


ACM - Infosys Foundation Award

Nominations Solicited

Nominations are invited for the 2009 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, 2009: 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


Grace Murray Hopper Award:

    Kelly Lyons, Chair
    Associate Professor
    Faculty of Information Studies
    University of Toronto
    45 Willcocks Street, Rm. 314
    Toronto, Ont., M5S 1C7 Canada
    +1-416-946 3839 - office
    kelly.lyons at acm.org
    Committee Members:
    Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
    Martin Abadi, University of California Santa Cruz and Microsoft Research


Distinguished Service Award:

    Marc Shapiro, Chair
    INRIA
    Laboratoire LIP6, bureau 825
    104, Avenue du Président Kennedy
    75016, Paris, France
    +011-33 1 44-27-70-93 -office
    +011-33 1 44-27-74-95 - fax
    marc.shapiro at acm.org
    Committee Members:
    Gurindar Sohi, University of Wisconsin
    Bryant York, Portland State University


Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award:

    Vicki Hanson
    School of Computing
    University of Dundee
    Dundee DD1 4HN
    Scotland
    +44 (0)1382 386510 - office
    +44 (0)1382 385509 - fax
    vlh at computing.dundee.ac.uk
    Committee Members:
    Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University
    Rich Snodgrass, University of Arizona
    Pat Ryan, ACM


Software System Award:

    Alexander Wolf, Chair
    Imperial College London
    Department of Computing
    180 Queen's Gate
    London W7 2AZ
    United Kingdom
    +44-0-207-594-8355 - office
    +44-0-207-594-8282 - fax
    a.wolf at imperial.ac.uk
    Committee Members:
    Michael Stonebraker, MIT
    P. Anandan, Microsoft Research India


Doctoral Dissertation Award:

    Bart Selman, Chair
    Dept. of Computer Science
    4148 Upson Hall
    Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY 14853
    +1-607-255-5643 - office
    +1-607-255-4428 - fax
    Selman at cs.cornell.edu
    Committee Members:
    Brian Bershad, University of Washington
    Richard Karp, International Computer Science Inst.
    Martin Rinard, MIT
    Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University


Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award:

    Nancy Leveson, Chair
    MIT - Room 33-334
    Aero/Astro Department
    77 Massachusetts Avenue
    Cambridge, MA 02139-4301
    +1-617-258-0505 - office
    leveson at mit.edu
    Committee Members:
    David Gries, Cornell University
    Andries van Dam, Brown University


Fellows:

    Stephen R. Bourne, Chair
    El Dorado Ventures
    fellow at acm.org
    Committee Members:
    Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University
    Stuart I. Feldman, Google
    Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University
    Ron Perrott, Queen’s University
    Avi Silberschatz, Yale University
    Andrew C. Yao, Tsinghua University


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


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


Gordon Bell Prize:

    Mateo Valero, Chair
    Computer Architecture Department
    Technical University of Catalonia
    DAC - UPC
    Campus Nord, D6
    Jordi Girona, 1 - 3
    08034 Barcelona, Spain
    +011-34-93 401 69 79 - office
    mateo at ac.upc.edu
    Committee Members:
    Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
    Christian Bischof, RWTH Aachen University
    James W. Demmel, University of California, Berkeley
    Doug Kothe, ORNL


ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award:

    Daniel Huttenlocher, Chair
    Computer Science Department
    Johnson Graduate School of Management
    Cornell University
    4130 Upson Hall
    Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
    +1-607-255-1974 - office
    dph at cs.cornell.edu
    Committee Member:
    Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University


Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award:

    Yossi Matias, Chair
    Head, Google R&D Center
    23 Menachem Begin Road
    Tel Aviv, Israel 66183
    +972-3-7617354 - office
    yossi.matias at gmail.com

    Committee Members:
    Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
    Peter Wegner, Brown University


ACM – IEEE CS Eckert Mauchly Award:

    Jean-Loup Baer
    University of Washington
    Box 352350
    Seattle, WA 98195-2350
    +1-206-685-1376 - office
    baer at cs.washington.edu
    ACM Representatives:
    Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
    Charles Moore


ACM – IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award:

    Rob Schreiber, Chair
    HP Labs
    1501 Page Mill Road
    MS 1177
    Palo Alto, CA 94304
    +1-650-857-8156 – office
    Rob dot Schreiber at hp dot com
    ACM Representatives:
    William Griswold, University of California, San Diego
    Kathryn McKinley, The University of Texas at Austin


International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

    Cynthia Brown, Chair
    Portland State University
    cbrown at cs dot pdx dot edu
    Committee Members:
    Stephen Ibaraki


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, Universiteit Bremen
    David Shmoys, Cornell University
    Barbara Simons
    Michael Ubell, Oracle
    Sabine Susstrunk, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology


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

    Chair, SIAM/ACM Prize in CS&E
    c/o Joanna M. Littleton
    SIAM
    3600 University City Science Center
    Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
    Phone: +1-215-382-9800 ext. 303 - office
    +1-215-386-7999 - fax
    littleton at siam.org
    Committee Members:
    Richard J. Hanson, Visual Numerics, Inc.
    Mac Hyman, Los Alamos National Lab.
    Mary F. Wheeler, The University of Texas at Austin


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
    Cobham Analytic Solutions
    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