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ACM Names 47 Fellows for Innovations in Computing and Information Technology
NEW YORK, Dec 01, 2009 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) --
ACM
(http://www.acm.org/) has recognized 47 of its members for
their contributions to computing and computer science that
have contributed fundamental knowledge to the field and
generated a broad range of innovations in industry,
commerce, entertainment, and education. The 2009 ACM Fellows
(http://fellows.acm.org/), from the world's leading
universities, industries, and research labs, created
advances in computer theory as well as practice. These
accomplishments will play a crucial role in driving
innovations that are necessary to sustain competitiveness in
an information-based society.
"The contributions of these computing professionals
reflect the knowledge and skills they have acquired to
address the challenges of the 21st century," said ACM
President, Professor Dame Wendy Hall "Their problem-solving,
logical reasoning, and critical thinking are making positive
changes to the lives and wellbeing of countless people
across the globe. We are especially pleased to welcome the
increased number of ACM Fellows from outside of North
America. The selection of this year's Fellows offers an
opportunity to celebrate their dedication to the dynamic
computing field and to recognize their achievements in
advancing the quality of life throughout society."
The complete list of 2009 ACM Fellows is appended at the
end of this announcement.
Within the corporate sector, the 2009 ACM Fellows named
from Google Inc. were cited for contributions ranging from
the science and engineering of large-scale distributed
computer systems and cloud computing systems to dynamic
computer architecture and data analysis. Microsoft Research
had ACM Fellows who were recognized for achievements in
database management, computing theory, and operating
systems. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center had Fellows
who were honored for advances in programming language
design, social computing, and relational database
technology. Other companies with 2009 Fellows were Yahoo!
Research and Cisco Systems. Their respective contributions
include information retrieval techniques and computer
networking.
Among the universities with 2009 ACM Fellows was the
University of Texas at Austin, whose Fellows were recognized
for achievements in computational biology and bioinformatics
as well as computing education. Fellows from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology were recognized for contributions to
combinatorial optimization problems and for analysis of
parallel computing and software reliability.
Other North American universities with 2009 ACM Fellows
include University of Washington; Northwestern University;
Duke University; University of Colorado; University of
California at Irvine, Riverside, and Berkeley; State
University of New York at Buffalo and Stony Brook; McGill
University; University of Michigan; North Carolina State
University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Princeton University; University of Toronto; University of
Minnesota; University of Southern California; Cornell
University; University of Florida; and Stanford University.
ACM Fellows from these institutions were cited for
achievements in development of embedded computing systems;
parallel storage; robotics and molecular biology;
computer-human interaction; data structures and algorithms;
image analysis, recognition, and retrieval; program analysis
and optimization; database management; object-oriented
programming languages; security of network systems;
complexity theory; applications of volume visualization;
geometric computing for computer graphics; power-aware
computing; metadata management; collaborative computing;
interdisciplinary applications of computer science;
fault-tolerant distributed computing; and human-centered
design.
Among universities outside North America, the 2009 ACM
Fellows include Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in
Israel; International Institute of Information Technology,
Pune in India; University of Munich in Germany; Sapienza
Universita di Roma in Italy; Chinese University of Hong Kong
in China; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India;
University of Lisbon in Portugal; Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland; Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea; and
University of Sheffield in UK. Fellows from these
universities were recognized for contributions to
distributed and parallel computing; computing technology andeducation;
knowledge discovery and data mining; data
management and knowledge representation; parallel storage
and communications systems; distributed programs and logic
programming; secure computing; multimedia compression and
communication; database management system architecture; and
natural language for computers. ACM also named a 2009 Fellow
from Argonne National Laboratory for advances in parallel
programming languages.
ACM will formally recognize the 2009 Fellows at its
annual Awards Banquet June 26, 2010. Additional information
about the ACM 2009 Fellows, the awards event, as well as
previous ACM Fellows and award winners is available at
http://www.acm.org/awards .
2009 Fellows and Citations
Hagit Attiya, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology;
For contributions to distributed and parallel computing
David F. Bacon, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; For
contributions to real-time systems and to object-oriented
language design and implementation
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research; For contributions to
the implementation of information retrieval algorithms and
techniques
Chandrajit P. Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin; For
contributions to algorithms for geometric design, scientific
visualization, computational biology and bioinformatics
Vijay Bhatkar, International Institute of Information
Technology/ ETH/ Multiversity, Pune; For contributions to
computing technology, education and research
Jose A. Blakeley, Microsoft Corporation; For contributions
to database management systems and data access technologies
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; For the
design, realization, and integration of embedded and
ubiquitous computing systems
Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University; For contributions
to High Performance Computing, storage, and parellel I/O
Nell B. Dale, University of Texas at Austin - Emerita; For
distinguished service to the ACM and her impact on computing
education
Bruce S. Davie, Cisco Systems; For contributions to
computer networking
Jeffrey A. Dean, Google Inc.; For contributions to the
science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer
systems.
Thomas L. Dean, Google Inc.; For the development of
dynamic Bayes networks and anytime algorithms
Bruce R. Donald, Duke University; For contributions in
robotics, MEMS, and computational molecular biology
Thomas Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; For
contributions to interaction design and social computing and
for outstanding service to ACM
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado; For contributions
to human computer interaction and computer-mediated lifelong
learning
Ian T. Foster, Argonne National Laboratory; For work in
parallel programming languages, collaborative and
distributed computing
Andrew V. Goldberg, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; For
contributions to fundamental theoretical and practical
problems in the design and analysis of algorithms
Michael T. Goodrich, University of California, Irvine; For
contributions to data structures and algorithms for
combinatorial and geometric problems
Venugopal Govindaraju, State University of New York at
Buffalo; For contributions to handwritten document image
analysis, recognition, and retrieval
Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside; For
contributions to program analysis and optimization and
professional service to the computer science research
community
Joseph M. Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley;
For contributions to database systems and data management
Laurie Hendren, McGill University; For contributions to
program analysis of procedural, object-oriented and
aspect-oriented programming languages
Urs Hoelzle, Google Inc.; For the design, engineering and
operation of energy-efficient large-scale cloud computing
systems
Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan; For contributions
to the dependability and security of networks and systems.
Erich L. Kaltofen, North Carolina State University; For
contributions to symbolic and algebraic computation,
algebraic algorithms and complexity theory
David Karger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; For
efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems
based on randomization
Arie E. Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony
Brook; For contributions to volume visualization and its
applications
Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen); For
contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining,
similarity search, spatial data management, and access
methods for high-dimensional data
Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza Universita di Roma; For
contributions to data management and knowledge
representation
John C.S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong; For
contributions to stochastic analysis of parallel storage and
communication systems
Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; For contributions to geometric computing and
applications to computer graphics, robotics and Graphics
Processing Unit computing
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University; For
contributions in power-aware computing
Yossi Matias, Google Inc.; For contributions to the
analysis of large data sets and data streams
Renee J. Miller, University of Toronto; For innovations in
metadata management, especially the creation of tools to
integrate, transform, query and analyze information
John T. Riedl, University of Minnesota; For contributions
to recommender systems and to social and collaborative
computing
Martin Rinard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; For
his contributions to program analysis for parallel computing
and for techniques for enabling software systems to execute
successfully in the face of errors and failures
Patricia Selinger, IBM Research; For contributions to the
field of relational database technology
R. K. Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research; For contributions to real-time distributed
programs and logic programming
Shang-Hua Teng, University of Southern California; For
contributions to theoretical computer science, algorithms
and interdisciplinary applications of computing
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Microsoft Research Silicon
Valley; For contributions to operating systems, distributed
systems, and scalable storage
Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University; For contributions
to fault-tolerant distributed computing
Baba C. Vemuri, University of Florida; For contributions
to computer vision and medical image analysis
Paulo Verissimo, University of Lisbon; For contributions
to dependable and secure distributed computing
Martin Vetterli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL); For contributions to multimedia compression and
communication Kyu-Young Whang Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology (KAIST) For contributions to physical
database design, query processing, and database management
system architecture
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield; For research on
meaning-based understanding of natural language by computers
Terry Winograd, Stanford University; For contributions to
AI, natural language processing, HCI, and human-centered
design
ABOUT ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery
(http://www.acm.org/), is the world's largest educational
and scientific computing society, uniting computing
educators, researchers and professionals to inspire
dialogue, share resources and address the field's
challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession's
collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the
highest standards, and recognition of technical
excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its
members by providing opportunities for life-long learning,
career development, and professional networking.
ABOUT THE ACM FELLOWS PROGRAM
The ACM Fellows Program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the
exceptional contributions of the leading members in the
computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten
researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of
information technology throughout the world. The new ACM
Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM
and its members look for guidance and leadership in
computing and information technology.
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