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NEW YORK, NY, December 18, 2012 -- ACM has identified 41 of its members as Distinguished Members for their individual contributions  and their singular impacts on the dynamic computing field.  Their achievements have advanced the science, engineering, and education of computing, enabling a range of technologies that drive innovation in the digital age. The 2012 Distinguished Members hail from universities in Australia, Denmark, Italy, Korea, China, and the United Kingdom in addition to North America, and from leading corporations and research institutions around the world. 

“This year’s Distinguished Members demonstrate the advantages of ACM membership, which empowers self-improvement and inspires a bold vision for the future,” said Vinton G. Cerf, president of ACM.  “Through their participation in building the foundations for groundbreaking technologies, they have achieved exemplary levels of professional standing.  We celebrate their entrepreneurial spirit, their creative energy, and their leadership in strengthening the computing community.”
 
The ACM Distinguished Member program can recognize the top 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field.  ACM’s current worldwide membership exceeds 100,000.

Some 68 percent of the 2012 recipients are from academic institutions around the world.  Another 22 percent represent prominent corporate and national research laboratories.  They were recognized for achievements in innovative instruction, wireless networking, network design and routing, computer vision, cybersecurity and data policy and reliability, data management, computational biology, high-performance computing, and energy efficient systems, among others.

Among representatives from renowned global businesses and industries, recipients were honored for achievements in large-scale visualization, information retrieval and machine learning, and sensor networks for protection in hazardous areas.

For more information about the selection criteria and the 2012 Distinguished Members, click on http://distinguished.acm.org.

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2012 Distinguished Engineers (3):

 

Murthy Devarakonda IBM T. J. Watson Research Center		Michel Hack IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Kenneth Russell Fast Electric Boat Corporation

 

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2012 Distinguished Educators (6):

 

Joel C. Adams Calvin College		Wanda P. Dann Carnegie Mellon University
Lillian (Boots) Cassel Villanova University		Dan Garcia University of California, Berkeley
Stephen C. Cooper Stanford University		Barbara Boucher Owens Southwestern University

 

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2012 Distinguished Scientists (32):

 

Nancy M. Amato Texas A&M University		Joseph P. Loyall Raytheon BBN Technologies
Ruth Iris Bahar Brown University		Maged M. Michael IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Edward Wes Bethel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		Michael Muller IBM Research
Athman Bouguettaya RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia		Erich M. Nahum IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Ian Brown University of Oxford		Torben Bach Pedersen Aalborg University, Denmark
K. Selcuk Candan Arizona State University		Vijay V. Raghavan University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Naehyuck Chang Seoul National University		Sudipta Sengupta Microsoft Research
Chen-Nee Chuah University of California, Davis		Sandeep K. Shukla Virginia Tech
Evgeniy Gabrilovich Google		Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami
Wendi Beth Heinzelman University of Rochester		Peter F. Sweeney IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Antony L. Hosking Purdue University		Peri Tarr IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Daniel A. Jiménez Texas A&M University		Jeffrey S. Vetter Oak Ridge National Laboratory/ Georgia Institute of Technology
Kimberly Keeton Hewlett Packard Labs		Jennifer L. Welch Texas A&M University
Angelos Dennis Keromytis Columbia University		Changsheng Xu Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Latifur Khan University of Texas, Dallas		Franco Zambonelli Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Ninghui Li Purdue University		Wenwu Zhu Tsinghua University

About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking. 
 
About the ACM Recognition Program
The ACM Fellows program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field.  These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The ACM Distinguished Member program, initiated in 2006, recognizes those members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field.  The ACM Senior Member program, also initiated in 2006, includes members with at least 10 years of professional experience who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers through technical leadership, technical contributions and professional contributions.  The new ACM Fellows, Distinguished Members, and Senior Members join a list of eminent colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.