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ACM Awards Banquet Celebrates Computing's Top Achievers
The annual ACM Awards Banquet, held at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California on June 9,
celebrated the best and brightest computing innovators and innovations. The 2006 ACM Award recipients
ranged from students demonstrating their programming and research prowess, to pioneers in their
respective fields.
For more information, please visit the ACM
Awards page.
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IBM Fellow Emerita Frances E. Allen is congratulated upon receiving the A.M. Turing Award by (from left) ACM President Stuart Feldman, Andrew A. Chien,
Intel’s Vice President of Research, and ACM CEO John White. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by the
Intel Corporation.
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Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award winner Robert K. Brayton, University of California at Berkeley
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ACM Vice President Wendy Hall accepting the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award and the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award on behalf of the late
Karen Spärck Jones of Cambridge University. At right is Rina Dechter, AAAI Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California,
Irvine.
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Software System Award winner Bertrand Meyer, Eiffel Software/ETH Zurich, with Stuart Feldman, John White and
Charles Lickel, IBM Vice President, Software. Financial support of the award is provided by IBM.
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Daniel Klein, University of California at Berkeley, winner of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, with Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research and new ACM Fellow.
Google provides financial support of both the Hopper and Doctoral Dissertation Awards.
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Doctoral Dissertation Award winner Yi-Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, with Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research
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Eugene Spafford, Purdue University, winner of the ACM President's Award
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David S. Wise, Indiana University, winner of the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award
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Distinguished Service Award winner Susan L. Graham, University of California at Berkeley
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ACM honored Peter J. Denning, Naval Postgraduate School (who served as President of ACM from 1980-82), with a special award "for his exceptional vision, devotion, and commitment to
excellence. His 40 years of dedication and guidance have been an inspiration to the Association and all those who
have served with him."
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The 2006 ACM Fellows. Please see the 2006 Fellows Page for the complete listing.
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Bill Poucher, ICPC Executive Director, congratulates International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2007 World Champions:
Coach Jan Madey, Warsaw University team members Filip Wolski, Marek Cygan, and Marcin Pilipczuk, and Co-Coach Krzysztof
Diks. Financial support of ICPC is provided by IBM.
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Ann Sobel of Miami University, Ohio, Chair of Student Research Competition Committee, and Mark Lewin of Microsoft Research, congratulate SRC Grand
Finals winners in the Graduate Division: Eugene Borodin (Stony Brook University), Emerson Murphy-Hill (Portland State University),
and Bowen Hui (University of Toronto); and in the Undergraduate Division:
Yuan-Ting E. Huang (University of British Columbia), Maria Kazandijieva (Mount Holyoke College), and
Anselm Grundhoefer (Bauhaus University, Weimar). Financial support of SRC is provided by Microsoft.
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Peter A. Freeman, Director, Washington Advisory Group, winner of the Computing Research Association's Distinguished Service Award, with John White,
ACM Past President David Patterson, and Stuart Feldman
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Janice E. Cuny, University of Oregon, NSF CISE Program Director, winner of the Computing Research Association's A. Nico Haberman Award
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ACM Awards Committee Co-Chair Jim Horning, Chief Scientist, SPARTA, Inc.
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ACM Awards Committee Co-Chair Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
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