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New York, March 22, 2004 -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Stuart I. Feldman for creating a seminal piece of software engineering known as Make. Almost every software developer in the world has used Make, or one of its descendants, as a tool for maintaining computer software. Dr. Feldman, Vice President of Internet Technology at IBM, developed the Make configuration management system in 1977, and it has remained in use for more than 20 years. Dr. Feldman will receive the ACM Software System Award, which carries a $10,000 prize. Make provides a mechanism for maintaining up-to-date versions of programs that have been altered by many operations on a number of files. It mechanizes many of the activities of program development and maintenance, and has played an integral role in products from virtually every major computer and software vendor. At IBM, Dr. Feldman is responsible for Internet technology where he oversees strategies, new applications and technologies, and relations with key universities, standards bodies and government organizations. His research focuses on data-driven computing, high-end computing architectures, and implications of networked computing. Dr. Feldman joined IBM in 1995, where he was head of computer science for IBM Research and director of IBM's Institute for Advanced Commerce. He began his career at AT&T Bell Labs as a computer science researcher, and a member of the original UNIX research team. As a research manager at Bellcore, he was the architect of a new line for software products and led an international technical team. He is currently a Consulting Professor of Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University and Yale University. A Fellow of ACM, Dr. Feldman was chair of ACM SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) and the founding chair of ACM SIGeCOM (Special Interest Group on E-Commerce). He is the SIG Governing Board representative to the ACM Council and a member of the editorial board of ACM Queue magazine. Dr. Feldman is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of IEEE's Internet Computing editorial board. He currently co-chairs the International World Wide Web Conference, to be held in New York May 19-21, 2004. Dr. Feldman earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University. ACM will present the award to Dr. Feldman at its annual Awards Banquet on June 5, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The Software System Award honors an institution or individual for developing a software system that has had lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, commercial acceptance, or both. Financial support for the ACM Software System Award is provided by IBM. About ACM ACM (www.acm.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for computing professionals, delivering a broad array of resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines, enable professional development, and promote policies and research that benefit society. |
