• 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

For more details, see the Nomination Submission Procedures.

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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

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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

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
Review a List of Frequently Asked Questions about the ACM Distinguished Member Grade: Distinguished Member FAQ
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
Review a List of Frequently Asked Questions about the ACM Senior Member Grade: Senior Member FAQ
For questions on the Senior Member Program, contact Rosemary McGuinness: senior@acm.org

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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

For more details, see the Gordon Bell Prize.

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

Cynthia Brown, Chair
Portland State University
cbrown at cs dot pdx dot edu

Committee Members:
Stephen Ibaraki

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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, Universiteit 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)

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

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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