ACM Fellows

The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves.

The ACM Council endorsed the establishment of a Fellows Program and provided guidance to the ACM Fellows Committee, taking the view that the program represents a concrete benefit to which any ACM Member might aspire, and provides an important source of role models for existing and prospective ACM Members. The program is managed by an ACM Fellows Committee as part of the general ACM Awards program administered by Calvin C. Gotlieb and James J. Horning.

The men and women honored as ACM Fellows have made critical contributions toward and continue to exhibit extraordinary leadership in the development of the Information Age and will be inducted at the ACM Awards Banquet on June 21, 2008, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

These 38 new inductees bring the total number of ACM Fellows to 632 (see http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all for the complete listing of ACM Fellows).

Their works span all horizons in computer science and information technology: from the theoretical realms of numerical analysis, combinatorial mathematics and algorithmic complexity analysis; through provinces of computer architecture, integrated circuits and firmware spanning personal computer to supercomputer design: into the limitless world of software and networking that makes computer systems work and produces solutions and results that are useful—and fun—for people everywhere.

Their technical papers, books, university courses, computing programs and hardware for the emerging computer/communications amalgam reflect the powers of their vision and their ability to inspire colleagues and students to drive the field forward. The members of the ACM are all participants in building the runways, launching pads and vehicles of the global information infrastructure.

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ACM Fellows

• Anant Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
• Utpal Banerjee, Intel Corp.
• Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University
• Avrim Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
• Eric A. Brewer, University of California, Berkeley
• Andrei Z. Broder, Yahoo! Research
• Michael F. Cohen, Microsoft Research
• Larry L. Constantine, University of Madeira; Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd.
• Danny Dolev, Hebrew University
• Rodney Graham Downey, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University
• Edward W. Felten, Princeton University
• Lance J. Fortnow, Northwestern University of Chicago
• Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware
• Georg Gottlob, Oxford University
• Richard Hull, Bell Labs Research, Alcatel–Lucent
• Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cornell University
• Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside
• John C. Klensin, Consultant
• Monica S. Lam, Stanford University
• Marc Levoy, Stanford University
• Bhubaneswar Mishra, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University
• Martin Odersky, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Gary M. Olson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• David Padua, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon University
• Amir Pnueli, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Viktor K Prasanna, University of Southern California
• Aristides A.G. Requicha, University of Southern California
• Eric S. Roberts, Stanford University
• Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles
• Donald E. Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University
• Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh
• Mitchell Wand, Northeastern University
• HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft–Advanced Technology Center, Beijing

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Call for 2008 ACM Fellows Nominations

The designation "ACM Fellow" may be conferred upon those ACM members who have distinguished themselves by outstanding technical and professional achievements in information technology, who are current professional members of ACM and have been professional members for the preceding five years. Any professional member of ACM may nominate another member for this distinction. The Fellows Guidelines are available on: http://awards.acm.org/html/fellow_nom_guide.cfm.

Nomination information organized by a principal nominator includes:

1. Excerpts from the candidate’s current curriculum vitae, listing selected publications, patents, technical achievements, honors, and other awards.
2. A description of the work of the nominee, drawing attention to the contributions that merit designation as Fellow.
3. Supporting endorsements from five ACM professional members.

Nominations and endorsements must be submitted online by Sept. 9, 2008.

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