December 08, 2011
NEW YORK, NY, Dec. 8 -- ACM has recognized 46 of its members for their contributions to computing that have provided fundamental knowledge to the computing field and generated multiple technology advances in industry, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and education. The 2011 ACM Fellows, from the world’s leading universities, corporations, and research labs, are helping to drive the innovations that will sustain competitiveness in the digital age.
“These women and men, who are some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in computer science and engineering, are changing how the world lives and works,” said ACM President Alain Chesnais. “They have mastered the tools of computing and computer science to address the many significant challenges that confront populations across the globe. These international luminaries are responsible for solutions that are transforming our society for the better—in healthcare, communications, cybersecurity, robotics, commerce, industry, and entertainment.”
Within the corporate sector, the 2011 ACM Fellows named from AT&T Labs–Research were cited for contributions for data management and algorithm design and analysis. Google Inc. Fellows were recognized for advances in full-system simulation and information retrieval. Microsoft Research’s ACM Fellows were honored for achievements in software analysis, computer graphics, reasoning and decision-making, network control, and distributed computing. Other companies with 2011 ACM Fellows are IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Cavium, Inc., and Forte Design Systems. Their respective contributions include optimizing compilers, high performance microarchitecture, and hardware simulation.
Among the universities with 2011 ACM Fellows was the University of California, with representatives from the Santa Barbara, Irvine, Davis, and San Diego campuses. These Fellows were recognized for achievements in data management systems; graph algorithms and computational geometry; visualization and computer animation; computational science; high performance processors; and data center scalability and management. ACM Fellows at Carnegie Mellon University included those honored for contributions to parallel computing, and human computer interaction. Harvard University’s ACM Fellows were cited for security and privacy policy leadership, and data management and computing systems. The University of Washington’s ACM Fellows were acknowledged for achievements in architecture and design of reconfigurable systems, and computer network design. At the University of Michigan, ACM Fellows were tapped for contributions to human-computer interaction and planning systems design.
Other North American universities with 2011 ACM Fellows include University of Toronto; Indiana University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of Southern California; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Stony Brook University; Case Western Reserve University; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Tufts University. ACM Fellows from these institutions were cited for achievements in human-computer interaction; software applications for high performance computing; distributed systems and e-commerce; computer networking; geometric modeling and computer graphics; geometric computing and approximation algorithms; database management systems; machine learning and natural language processing; and query processing in data management systems.
Among universities outside North America, the 2011 ACM Fellows hailed from INRIA Saclay in France; Aarhus University in Denmark; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel; Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan; and National University of Singapore. Fellows from these universities were recognized respectively for achievements in theory and practice of databases; temporal and spatio-temporal data management; simulated annealing and combinatorial optimization; high performance computer design; and distributed data management.
In addition, an ACM Fellow was named from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fellows with multiple affiliations included those from NVIDIA Corp. and the University of Texas at Austin; the National Science Foundation and the University of California, San Diego; Harvard University and Oracle Corporation; the University of California, San Diego and Google Inc.; and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Renyi Institute in Hungary, and the Courant Institute at New York University. They were cited respectively for contributions to software verification by model checking; computer architectures and technology modeling; distributed systems; data management and computing systems; data center scalability and management; and computational geometry.
ACM will formally recognize the 2011 Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet on June 16, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. Additional information about the ACM 2011 Fellows, the awards event, as well as previous ACM Fellows and award winners is available at www.acm.org/awards.
2011 ACM Fellows
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Serge Abiteboul
For contributions to the theory and practice of databases |
Divyakant Agrawal For contributions to distributed data management systems |
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Ronald M. Baecker
For contributions to human-computer interaction and computer animation |
Thomas J. Ball
For contributions to software analysis and defect detection |
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Guy Blelloch For contributions to parallel computing |
Carl Ebeling
For contributions to the architecture and design of reconfigurable systems |
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David Eppstein
For contributions to graph algorithms and computational geometry |
Geoffrey C. Fox
For contributions to software applications for high-performance computing, and for diversity outreach |
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George W. Furnas
For contributions to human-computer interaction |
David K. Gifford
For contributions to distributed systems, e-commerce and content distribution |
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Ramesh Govindan
For contributions to computer networking |
Baining Guo
For contributions to computer graphics |
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David Heckerman
For contributions to reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty |
Gerard J. Holzmann
For contributions to software verification by model checking |
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Hugues Hoppe
For contributions to computer graphics |
Christian S. Jensen
For contributions to temporal and spatio-temporal data management |
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Howard J. Karloff
For contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms |
Stephen W. Keckler
For contributions to computer architectures and technology modeling |
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Peter B. Key
For network control and routing |
Scott Kirkpatrick
For simulated annealing and contributions to combinatorial optimization |
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Robert E. Kraut
For contributions to human-computer interaction |
Susan Landau
For public policy leadership in security and privacy |
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Ming C. Lin
For contributions to geometric modeling and computer graphics |
Peter S. Magnusson
For contributions to full-system simulation |
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Dahlia Malkhi
For contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing |
Keith Marzullo For contributions to distributed systems and service to the computing community |
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Satoshi Matsuoka For contributions to the design of high-performance computers |
Nelson Max
For contributions to visualization tools and computer animation |
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Joseph S.B. Mitchell
For contributions to geometric computing and approximation algorithms |
Shubu Mukherjee
For contributions to modeling and design of high-performance and soft-error-tolerant microarchitectures |
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Beng Chin Ooi
For contributions to spatio-temporal and distributed data management |
Zehra Meral Özsoyoglu
For contributions to database management systems |
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Janos Pach
For contributions to computational geometry |
Linda Petzold
For contributions to computational science |
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Martha E. Pollack
For contributions to planning systems design and for service to the computing community |
Dan Roth
For contributions to machine learning and natural language processing |
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John W. Sanguinetti
For contributions to hardware simulation |
Margo Seltzer
For contributions to data management and computing systems |
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Amit Singhal
For contributions to search and information retrieval |
Diane L. Souvaine For contributions to computational geometry and for service on behalf of the computing community |
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Divesh Srivastava
For contributions to query processing in data management systems |
Dan Suciu
For contributions to probabilistic databases and semistructured data |
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Dean M. Tullsen
For contributions to the architecture of high-performance processors |
Amin Vahdat
University of California, San Diego/Google Inc. For contributions to data center scalability and management |
| David J. Wetherall
University of Washington For contributions to computer network design |
Frank Kenneth Zadeck
L.J. Gonzer Associates For contributions to optimizing compilers |
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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