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Please note that the deadline for submission of nominations for 2011 is November 30, 2011 for all awards, unless otherwise indicated.

Please note the following exceptions:

Nominations Content

Nominations for the 2011 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.
  7. For the Grace Murray Hopper and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, nominations should include a current vitae and the age of the candidate.

Nominations for the 2011 awards should be submitted to the respective chairs listed below:

2011 Award Subcommittee Chairs and Members

A.M. Turing Award:

Turing Award Nominations should be sent to Rosemary McGuinness, ACM Awards Committee Liaison, at mcguinness@acm.org.

    Jennifer Chayes, Chair
    Microsoft Research
    jchayes at microsoft.com
    Committee Members:
    Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
    Ravi Sethi, Avaya Labs
    Frances E. Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita
    Adele Goldberg, Neometron
    Barbara Liskov, MIT
    Michael Jordan, UC, Berkeley

ACM - Infosys Foundation Award

Nominations Solicited

Nominations are invited for the 2011 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.

[Nomination Form(Word document)]     [Endorsement Form (Word document)]  

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. Substantive 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.
  4. A short citation of 25 words or less should be included in the nomination.

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:

    Henry Kautz, Chair
    University of Rochester
    infosys2011 at acm dot org

    Committee Members:
    Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University
    Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research
    Dines Bjorner, Professor Emeritus, Technical University of Denmark
    Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
    Sue Whitesides, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Grace Murray Hopper Award:

    Mendel Rosenblum, Chair
    Stanford University
    mendel at cs dot stanford dot edu

    Committee Members:
    Martin Abadi, University of California at Santa Cruz / Microsoft Research
    Melanie Baljko, York University
    Georg Gottlob, Technische Univ. Wien

Distinguished Service Award:

    Harry Shum, Chair
    Microsoft Research
    hshum at microsoft dot com
    Committee Members:
    Marc Shapiro, INRIA
    Anne Condon, University of British Columbia
    Reinhard Wilhelm, Schloss Dagstuhl

Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award:

    Richard Snodgrass, Chair
    University of Arizona
    rts at cs.arizona.edu
    Committee Members:
    Patricia Ryan, ACM
    Thomas Rodden, University of Nottingham

Software System Award:

    Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Chair
    INRIA
    Anne-Marie.Kermarrec at inria.fr
    Committee Members:
    Hagit Attiya, Technion
    Alexander Wolf, Imperial College London
    Benjamin Zorn, Microsoft Research
    Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton

Doctoral Dissertation Award:

    Martin Rinard, Chair
    MIT
    rinard at lcs.mit.edu
    Committee Members:
    Brian Bershad, Google
    Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University
    Allan Borodin, University of Toronto
    Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego
    Steve Seitz, University of Washington
    Greg Morrisett, Harvard
    Constantinos Daskalakis, MIT

Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award:

    Andrew McGettrick, Chair
    University of Strathclyde
    andrew.mcgettrick at cis.strath.ac.uk
    Committee Members:
    Nancy Leveson, MIT
    Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Labs-Research
    Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology

Fellows:

    Ronald Perrott, Chair
    Queen's University
    rperrott at acm.org
    Committee Members:
    Stephen R. Bourne, El Dorado Ventures
    E.G. Coffman, Jr., Columbia University
    Stuart I. Feldman, Google
    Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University
    Renee Miller, University of Tornoto
    Avi Silberschatz, Yale University
    Andrew C. Yao, Tsinghua University

Distinguished Member:

    Lori Clarke, Co-Chair
    University of Massachusetts
    clark at cs dot umass dot edu
    distinguished at acm dot org

    Avi Mendelson, Co-Chair
    Microsoft R&D Israel
    avim at microsoft dotcom
    distinguished at acm dot org

    Committee Members:
    Robert Lefkowitz
    David Thomas, Bedarra
    Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, SAP Research
    Robert A. Walker, Kent State University
    Stuart Zweben, Ohio State University

Senior Member:

    Robert A. Walker, Chair
    Kent State University
    rawalke1 at kent dot edu
    senior at acm dot org
    Committee Members:
    Reinaldo Bergamaschi
    Susan Rodger, Duke University
    R.K. Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Gordon Bell Prize:

For submissions, please go to SC12 Submissions Site

    Cherri Pancake, Chair
    Oregon State University
    pancake at nacse dot org

    Committee Members:
    Michael Norman, San Diego SC Center
    Thomas Schulthess, ETH Zurich
    Thom Dunning, NCSA
    Almadena Chtchelkanova, NSF
    Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba

ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award:

    Manuela Veloso, Chair
    Carnegie Mellon University
    veloso at cmu.edu
    Committee Members:
    Fernando Pereira, Google
    Eric Grimson, MIT
    Paul Rosenbloom, University of Southern California
    John Laird, University of Michigan

Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award:

    Eugene Fiume, Chair
    University of Toronto
    elf at dgp.toronto.edu
    Committee Members:
    Monika Henzinger, University of Vienna
    Peter Wegner, Brown University

ACM – IEEE CS Eckert Mauchly Award:

    David A. Patterson, Chair
    University of California, Berkeley
    pattrsn at cs.berkeley.edu
    ACM Representatives:
    Charles Moore
    Andre Seznec, IRISA

ACM – IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award:

    Kathryn McKinley, Chair
    The University of Texas at Austin
    mckinley at utexas.edu
    ACM Representatives:
    David Rosenblum, National University of Singapore
    Larry Smarr, University of California, San Deigo

International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

    Lynne Andrea Stein, Chair
    Olin College
    las at olin.edu
    Committee Member:
    Robb Cutler
    John Timothy Korb, Purdue University

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

    Barbara Simons, Chair
    IBM (retired)
    simons at acm dot org

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

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

    Richard J. Hanson, Chair - ACM Rep
    Rogue Wave Software
    richard.koolhans at gmail.com

    Committee Members:
    Chris Johnson, University of Utah - SIAM
    Barbara Wohlmuth, University of Stuttgart - SIAM

Award Committee Co-Chair:

    C.C. Gotlieb
    University of Toronto
    kelly27 at sympatico dot ca

Award Committee Co-Chair:

    James J. Horning
    Advanced Elemental Technologies
    horning at acm dot org

SGB Award Committee Liaison:

    Erik R Altman
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
    ealtman at us dot ibm dot com