Contact: Tina Angelone 212-626-0532 angelone@acm.org IMMEDIATE GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY DEAN HONORED BY ACM AS OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR New York, November 12, 1996… Peter J. Denning, associate dean for computing and chair of the computer science department at George Mason University, has been selected as the winner of the 1996 Association for Computing (ACM) Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. This award recognizes an outstanding educator for advancements in teaching methods and for effecting new curriculum development in computer science and engineering. The award will be presented on Mar. 2, 1997, during the ACM awards banquet at "ACM97: the Next Fifty Years of Computing," a world-wide interactive event on the longterm impact of information technology. Denning is honored for his long standing efforts to shape the field of computing and convey its nature to computer scientists and to the broader scientific community. His vision, leadership and early writings on operating systems played a key role in making that area a respected part of the core curriculum. Through a series of columns in American Scientist, he conveyed the intellectual substance of computing to the broader scientific community long before such efforts became fashionable. Denning's primary research interests are operating systems, workflow systems, computer systems architecture and hyperlearning environments. He has published over 250 papers and articles and is co-editing Beyond Calculation: The Next 50 Years of Computing. This award carries a prize of $5000 which is supplied by Prentice-Hall Publishing Company. Karlstrom was a Prentice-Hall editor who piloted some 500 books in computer science to publication. ACM is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership by delivering cutting-edge information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM, with its world-class journals and -more- magazines, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops and forums, is a primary resource to the IT field. For additional information on ACM, visit our web site at http://www.acm.org. ###