NEW YORK, March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today announced the winners of four awards honoring significant contributions to the computing and information technology field. Also announced was the winner of ACM's Doctoral Dissertation Award. These awards recognize men and women, students and professors, researchers and practitioners, role models and trailblazers. They will be presented with other achievement awards at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on May 20, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
- This year's announcement includes the 2006 ACM President's Award to Andreas Bechtolsheim, Janice Cuny, and Edward Lazowska for contributions that transcend technical achievements in computing and information technology. The recipients of this rarely-bestowed honor each demonstrated their exceptional abilities to advance computing technology and enhance its impact for the benefit of society.
- ACM also honored Don Gotterbarn, who spearheaded the establishment of ACM's Software Engineering Code of Ethics, with the Outstanding Contribution Award; and Mary Jane Irwin for her advocacy of students and junior members of the computing community, with ACM's Distinguished Service Award.
- The first Athena Lecturer award, presented by ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W), was given to Deborah Estrin. This new award recognizes women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer Science.
- ACM also announced that Ben Liblit of the University of Wisconsin-Madison received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for his study on understanding and fixing computer "bugs" in the real world. Honorable Mention went to Olivier Dousse of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories for his study of complex wireless networks.
2006 PRESIDENT'S AWARD
Andreas Bechtolsheim, chief architect for Sun Microsystems' Network Systems Group, was cited for demonstrating that "success need not be an obstacle to continuing to make outstanding technical achievements." He showed how to share wealth and knowledge to help younger computer scientists and engineers follow his example.
Janice Cuny, professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon, was acknowledged for her ability to "demonstrate how to help underserved populations as a parent, teacher, civil servant and citizen." Her efforts underscore the difference that one person can make in helping underrepresented populations in information technology.
Edward Lazowska, former chair of the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering department, was recognized for "demonstrating how to advocate effectively for IT research and advanced education." His lifetime commitment to demonstrating how to promote investment in the IT community has led to expanded funding for IT research and advanced educational opportunities.
2005 ACM OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD
Don Gotterbarn, professor of Computer Science and director of the Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute at East Tennessee State University, promoted the ethical behavior of computing professionals and organizations with lectures, articles and advocacy. ACM's Codes of Ethics have achieved real world impact through Gotterbarn's research. He created the Software Development Impact Statement (SoDIS) process that encourages software project managers to consider the wider ramifications of their work. This approach incorporates the ethics codes into the software development decision-making process, thereby integrating ethical and social responsibility into the process.
2005 ACM DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
Mary Jane Irwin of Penn State University holds the A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Irwin co-founded the annual workshop for women in design automation. As a member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Women (CRA-W) Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, she organized a mentoring program for mid-career women faculty. She chaired the National Science Foundation's Computer Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate's Advisory Committee, and is a past vice president of ACM.
2006 ATHENA LECTURER AWARD
Deborah Estrin, professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, holds the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks. She is founding director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Estrin has collaborated with colleagues and students to develop protocols and systems architectures needed to build sensor networks, rapidly-deployable and robustly-operating networks of physically-embedded devices. She is particularly interested in the application of these embedded sensors for environmental monitoring.
2005 ACM DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD
Ben Liblit was recognized for his study on understanding and fixing computer "bugs" in the world. He was nominated by the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, entitled "Cooperative Bug Isolation" describes a system to support debugging based on feedback from actual users.
Honorable Mention went to Olivier Dousse for his dissertation entitled "Asymptotic Properties of Wireless Multi-hop Networks." He was nominated by Ecole Polytechnique federale De Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland for his study of complex wireless networks that play an important role in commercial and military communications systems.
The Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation in computer science and engineering. The Doctoral Dissertation Award carries a prize of $5,000. Financial support and the publication of the winning dissertation are provided by Springer-Verlag.
ABOUT ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery http://www.acm.org , is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the 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.
- - - -
CONTACT: Virginia Gold, ACM Media Relations,
212-626-0505, vgold@acm.org
|
|
|
AScribe Newswire distributes news from nonprofit and public sector organizations. We provide direct, immediate access to mainstream national media for 600 colleges, universities, medical centers, public-policy groups and other leading nonprofit organizations.
AScribe transmits news releases directly to newsroom computer systems and desktops of major media organizations via a supremely trusted channel - The Associated Press. We also feed news to major news retrieval database services, online publications and to developers of web sites and Intranets.
And AScribe does it at a cost all organizations, large and small, can afford, a fraction of what corporate newswires charge. Click here to see how we do it