Patricia (Patti) Ordóñez is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras. A Co-chair of ACM’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, she mentors and develops mentoring communities in K-12, undergraduate and graduate educational settings. She also creates assistive technologies for programming and communication to help ensure computing is accessible to all. Ordóñez is the Program Chair for the 2021 CMD-IT/ACM Richard A. Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, which will be held from September 14-17.

The 2021 ACM Europe Summer School on “HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications” will take place 30 August - 3 September, and it is hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). This edition of the school will be fully remote. The summer school addresses young computer science researchers and engineers, and it is open to outstanding MSc students and senior undergraduate students. Applications are due 31 July.

Ayanna Howard is Dean of The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering. She is also the founder of Zyrobotics, a company that develops mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs. Howard received the Computer Research Association’s A. Nico Habermann Award and the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award. She was recently named the 2021-2022 ACM Athena Lecturer for contributions to the development of accessible human-robotic systems and artificial intelligence, and for broadening participation in computing.

View a May 6 panel convened by ACM and IEEE to discuss the computing profession's state in the world today and its future outlook. The panel focused on the many challenges of computational science, computer science education, and how information technology affects society, industry, and academia. Panelists included ACM President Gabriele Kotsis; IEEE-CS President Forrest Shull; ACM Turing Award Laureate Barbara Liskov; and ACM Fellows Nuria Oliver, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Moshe Vardi.

ACM's US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) hosted a HotTopics webinar session, "Of Access, Excess, and Trespass: The Supreme Court’s Van Buren Ruling on the CFAA," on June 24, 2021. USTPC Law Subcommittee Chair and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy Grosso moderated a 90-minute deep dive into the Court’s new and long-awaited Van Buren decision. Panelists included Alan Butler, Cindy Cohn, Mark Rasch and Eric Vandevelde.

The Computing Research Association (CRA) -- the premier member organization of academic departments, laboratories, and industry centers aimed at advancing computing research to change the world -- seeks an inclusive, transparent, and enterprising leader to serve as its next Executive Director. The next Executive Director has a unique opportunity to lead CRA to effect change that benefits both computing research and society at large. Learn more here.

ACM Selects are themed shortlists curated by subject matter experts for both serious and emerging computing professionals, with the goal of providing new ways to discover relevant resources, either through ACM or authenticated by ACM-affiliated specialists. The latest Selects cover Getting Started with HPC, Getting Started with Networks, Getting Started with Data Science #2, and People in Computing #7: Women in Hardware and Programming Languages.

By highlighting successful technical women who are leading diverse careers in the technology industry, ACM-W’s webinar series, “Celebrating Technology Leaders,” aims to inform students and early-career professionals about the multitude of career options open to them. Episodes have featured tech entrepreneurship, UI/UX, data science, robotics, and cybersecurity. Visit https://women.acm.org/celebrating-technology-leaders/ to view on-demand.

ACM Focus is a new way to explore the breadth and variety of ACM content, and to stay current with the latest trends in your technical community. ACM Focus consists of a set of AI-curated custom feeds by subject, each serving up a focused set of the latest relevant ACM content that provides overall awareness of relevant ACM activities, people, talks and a variety of published works. Examples of topic categories include AI, Web, Applied Computing, Society, Graphics, and more. The feeds are built in an automated fashion and are refined as you interact with them. Explore ACM Focus today!

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference includes workshops on swarm intelligence, complex systems, evolutionary numerical optimization, genetic algorithms and more. The virtual platform Gather will encourage informal networking, while talks (sessions, keynotes, workshops and, other events involving oral presentations) will be streamed in Whova. Scheduled keynote speakers are Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT), Marc Mézard (École Normale Supérieure), and Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute).

The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval will feature keynotes by Eszter Hargittai (University of Zurich), Hang Li (ByteDance Technology), and Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech). Sessions will cover bias and counterfactual learning, social media, hybrid learning, graph learning for recommendation, and more. Workshops will cover IR for children, e-commerce, patent text mining, simulation for information retrieval evaluation, and more.

The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference will include workshops on Building a Strategic Plan for your Research Computing and Data Program; Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure; Enhancing HPC Education and Training; Refining Your Research Computing Pitch; NVIDIA; and more. Tutorials will cover topics such as coding, the Rogues Gallery platform, programming and profiling modern multicore processors, and managing HPC software complexity with Spack.

Andrew McGettrick was named recipient of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for his scholarship and tireless volunteer work and contributions, which have fundamentally improved rigorous computer science as a field of professional practice and as an academic pursuit. His work in curricula, standards and evaluation guidelines improved the quality and rigor of undergraduate, Master’s, and doctoral programs around the world.

Jennifer Chayes was named recipient of the ACM Distinguished Service Award for her effective leadership, mentorship, and dedication to diversity during her distinguished career of computer science research, teaching, and institution building. Her contributions include leadership at Microsoft Research and the University of California, Berkeley; service to computing organizations; mentorship of women, underrepresented racial minorities and other disadvantaged groups; and important research.

Chris Hankin was named recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award for fundamental contributions to ACM Europe and for bringing a European perspective to critically important ACM committees and activities. As Chair of the ACM Europe Council from 2017 to 2019, Hankin made it a priority to strengthen the visibility of ACM among younger generations in Europe. As a member of its policy committee, he co-authored two white papers: one on cybersecurity and one on automated decision making.

Richard Anderson received the 2020 ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics for contributions bridging the fields of computer science, education, and global health. With his students and collaborators, Anderson developed a range of innovative applications in health, education, the internet, and financial services, benefiting underserved communities around the globe.

Marc Rotenberg receives the 2020 ACM Policy Award for long-standing, high-impact leadership on privacy and technology policy. A leading advocate for privacy and data protection, Rotenberg has testified before the US Congress and European Parliament, and is active in several international policy organizations. Rotenberg has mentored two generations of public interest attorneys through internships at EPIC, as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, and as the author of many textbooks and articles.

Margaret Martonosi, the Hugh Trumbull Adams '35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, was named the recipient of the 2021 ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture. Martonosi has made significant contributions in computer architecture and microarchitecture, and her work has led to new fields of research.

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