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Award Nominations

Please note that the deadline for submission of nominations for 2008 is October 31, 2008 for all awards, unless otherwise indicated.

Please note the following exceptions:

  • 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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: 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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