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Contact: Tina Angelone angelone@acm.org 212-626-0532 IMMEDIATE
New York, NY December XX, 1996…The Association of Computing (ACM) has named Robert Aiken, professor of computer and information sciences at Temple University, recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award. The award will be presented to Aiken during the ACM awards banquet, Mar.2, 1997, which will be held in conjunction with "ACM97: The Next Fifty Years of Computing," a world-wide interactive event on the long-term impact of information technology. Aiken is honored "for outstanding contributions to computer science education and for long-term leadership in national and international computer science education activities on behalf of the ACM." Aiken has been active in a variety of ACM leadership roles since 1968, when he helped found and later chaired the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). Since then he has served as an ACM National Lecturer, as chairman of the ACM Education Board, as a two-term ACM representative to the Computing Science Accreditation Board (CSAB) and as a U.S. representative to and vice chair of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education. His record of service to the ACM and the computing science community is a model for all and the embodiment of the kind of leadership for which the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award was intended. The ACM Outstanding Contribution Award is presented annually to individuals who are selected on the value and degree of service to the ACM. 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 theory to practice. ACM with its world-class journals and magazines, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops and forums is a primary resource to the field of IT. For additional information on ACM, visit out Web sit at http://www.acm.org.
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