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CONTACT: Anne P. Wilson
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New York, Dec.4, 2000 -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that it awarded the 2000 Outstanding Contribution to ACM award to Dr. Hal Berghel for significant and wide-ranging contributions on behalf of the ACM Membership and Publication Boards, ACM Technology Outreach Programs, and the ACM Distinguished Lectureship Series. Dr. Berghel chairs the ACM Technology Outreach Program and Electronic Communities Committees, and serves on the ACM Publications Board. He is also Vice-Chair of the ACM Membership Activities Board. Technology Outreach Program With ACM's growing international presence, Dr. Berghel developed a number of programs for Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. He began the Technology Outreach Program (TOP) for Mexico and Central America in 1995 with Prof. Jesus Flores Morfin. TOP has involved supporting computing conferences in Mexico with ACM Distinguished Lecturers for numerous Computing and IT conferences. He also instituted student chapters in Latin America, providing all the research, publications and networking benefits of the ACM to undergraduates. Australia and New Zealand were next. After a "good will tour" to many area universities, Berghel's TOP work resulted in establishing ACM student chapters, and laying groundwork for the Australian/New Zealand ACM Distinguished Lectureship Progam. Research and Writing Dr. Berghel is currently Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He has held a variety of research and administrative positions in industry and academia during his 25-year computing career. His current research focuses on Internet and Web technologies, interactive and participatory computing environments, including the design of virtual communities and electronic information management. His research work appears frequently in a variety of scientific and technical publications. Award Presentation Dr. Berghel will receive the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award on Sunday, March 11, 2001, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. ACM Founded in 1947, ACM (www.acm.org) is the world's first educational and scientific computing society. With more than 80,000 members worldwide, a dynamic series of authoritative publications, the ACM Digital Library, with one of the most respected online collections of computer science information, a wide range of special interest groups (SIGs), and an outstanding array of conferences, workshops and forums, ACM is a world-class resource for the entire technology field. |
