ACM Names 41 Fellows from World's Leading Institutions
ACM Names 41 Fellows from World's Leading InstitutionsMany Innovations Made in Areas Critical to Global Competitiveness
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New York, NY, December 7, 2010 -- ACM has recognized 41 of its members for their contributions to computing and computer science that have provided fundamental knowledge to the field and generated multiple innovations in industry, commerce, entertainment, and education. The 2010 ACM Fellows, from the world’s leading universities, corporations, and research labs, achieved accomplishments that are driving the innovations necessary to sustain competitiveness in the digital age. “These men and women have made advances in technology and contributions to the computing community that are meeting the dynamic demands of the 21st century,” said ACM President Alain Chesnais. “Their ability to think critically and solve problems creatively is enabling great advances on an international scale. The selection of this year’s Fellows reflects broad international representation of the highest achievements in computing, which are advancing the quality of life throughout society.” Within the corporate sector, the 2010 ACM Fellows named from Google Inc. were cited for contributions ranging from multi-core computing to machine learning, algorithms for Internet ad auctions, and the invention of the optical mouse. Microsoft Research’s ACM Fellows were recognized for achievements in microprocessor architecture and the mathematical foundations of dynamic random networks. AT&T’s ACM Fellow was cited for contributions to programming language design, theory, and practice. IBM Almaden and Thomas J. Watson Research Centers had Fellows who were honored for object-oriented programming language design and implementation and human-computer interface research and innovation. Other companies with 2010 Fellows were Xilinx Research Labs and Galois. Their respective contributions include reconfigurable architecture design and design automation tools, and functional programming. Among the universities with 2010 ACM Fellows was the University of Texas at Austin, whose Fellows were recognized for achievements in fault-tolerant distributed computing, and large-scale distributed computer systems, and natural language processing. Fellows from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were recognized for contributions to hardware and language memory models and multiprocessor architectures. Carnegie Mellon University Fellows were cited for contributions to graph and multimedia mining and revolutionizing human computer interaction. Other North American universities with 2010 ACM Fellows include University of Michigan; Boston University; Washington University; Duke University; Indiana University; University of California at Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Berkeley; Rice University; Rutgers University; Yale University; Brown University; University of British Columbia; and the University of Waterloo. ACM Fellows from these institutions were cited for achievements in reliable storage and virtual machines; networks and distributed systems; automatic program parallelization; energy management for mobile devices; numerical optimization; data management protocols; computational geometry; algorithms for DNA sequencing; large scale systems and network security; theory and application of machine learning; robotic motion planning; algorithms for Internet ad auctions; algorithms for solving linear equations; graph algorithms; biomolecular computation; and data management. Among universities outside North America, the 2010 ACM Fellows include Monash University in Australia; University of Auckland in New Zealand; University of Southampton in UK; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland; University of Kaiserslautern and Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Germany; University College in UK; and Saarland University in Germany. Fellows from these universities were recognized for contributions to high performance supercomputers; parallel processor and memory system design; semantic web and web science; security in wireless networks; XML data management; software engineering research for industrial applications; software testing; and automated debugging. ACM will formally recognize the 2010 Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet on June 4, 2011, in San Jose, CA. Additional information about the ACM 2010 Fellows, the awards event, as well as previous ACM Fellows and award winners is available at www.acm.org/awards.
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