ACM names 2014 Distinguished Members: 2014 Members Recognized for Contributions to Hardware, Software and Communications ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) acm.org has designated 49 scientists, engineers and educators as Distinguished Members for their individual contributions, and their singular impacts on the vital field of computing. Their achievements have had a significant influence on the social, economic and cultural areas of daily lives all over the world. The 2014 Distinguished Members are from universities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, India, the United Kingdom and North America, and from leading international corporations and research institutions. ACM President Alexander Wolf hailed these ACM members as “drivers of the advances and inventions that are propelling the information revolution in new directions. Their creativity and commitment to their craft ensures that we will benefit as a society in the digital age.” He added that these innovators “demonstrate the advantages of ACM membership, which empowers and inspires a bold vision for advancing computing and 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. Eighty percent of the 2014 recipients are from leading international academic institutions around the world. The rest represent prominent corporate and national research laboratories from North America, Europe, India and Japan. Their achievements in critical computing areas include innovative instruction and curriculum design, systems design and architecture, critical systems security, Internet structure and security, high performance computing, human-computer interaction, programming languages, mobile and wireless networks, database research and management, software engineering. For more information about the selection criteria and the 2014 Distinguished Members, click on awards.acm.org/distinguished_member/ Distinguished Members The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Educators: Stephen Hilary Edwards Virginia Tech Jeffrey Gray University of Alabama Mark J. Guzdial Georgia Institute of Technology Kevin Wayne Princeton University The following ACM Members have been recognized as a 2014 Distinguished Engineers: Jose Nelson Amaral University of Alberta Sreeranga P. Rajan Fujitsu Laboratories of America The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Scientists: Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria Paul Barford University of Wisconsin Clark Barrett New York University Patrick Baudisch Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam Valeria Bertacco University of Michigan Judith Bishop Microsoft Research Martin Burtscher Texas State University Danny Z. Chen University of Notre Dame Jianer Chen Texas A&M University Ed H. Chi Google Inc. Allison Druin University of Maryland Matthew Flatt University of Utah Silvia Giordano University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) Ganesh L. Gopalakrishnan University of Utah Marco Gruteser Rutgers University Lynda Hardman CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) Simon Harper University of Manchester Ahmed Helmy University of Florida Yiwei Thomas Hou Virginia Tech Kristina Höök Mobile Life, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Sweden Ihab Francis Ilyas University of Waterloo Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin David R. Kaeli Northeastern University Li Erran Li Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Xiang-Yang Li Illinois Institute of Technology Jason Xiaowen Liu Florida International University Dmitri Loguinov Texas A&M University Gabriel Loh AMD Research Robyn Lutz Iowa State University Tamiya Onodera IBM Research – Tokyo Manish Parashar Rutgers University Nitendra Rajput IBM Research, India Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University Binoy Ravindran Virginia Tech Timothy Peter Sherwood University of California, Santa Barbara Rajeev Shorey TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati,USA/Bangalore, India Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam Indian Institute of Technology Madras Mike Spreitzer IBM Research, Yorktown Heights Biplav Srivastava IBM Research, India Miroslav N. Velev Aries Design Automation, LLC Duncan Moore “Hank” Walker Texas A&M University Hui Xiong Rutgers University Lenore D. Zuck University of Illinois at Chicago
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:47:34 +0000
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