ACM’s 2016 General Election

ACM Nominating Committee Report Nominees for the 2016 General Election

In accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the ACM, the Nominating Committee hereby submits the following slate of nominees for ACM’s officers. In addition to the officers of the ACM, five Members at Large will be elected. The names of the candidates for each office are presented in random order below:

President (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2018):

Vicki L. Hanson, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Dundee
Erik Altman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Vice President (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2018):

Fabrizio Gagliardi, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University

Secretary/Treasurer (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2018):

Craig Partridge, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Elizabeth Churchill, Google

Members at Large (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2020):

Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University
Gabriele Anderst-Kostis, Johannes Kepler University
Pam Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Tech
Manindra Agrawal, IIT, Kanpur
Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University
Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool
Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Judith Gal-Ezer, The Open University of Israel

The Constitution and Bylaws provide that candidates for elected offices of the ACM may also be nominated by petition of one percent of the Members who as of 1^st November are eligible to vote for the nominee. Such petitions must be accompanied by a written declaration that the nominee is willing to stand for election. The number of Member signatures required for the offices of President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer and Members at Large, is 729.

The Bylaws provide that such petitions must reach the Elections Committee before 31^st of January. Original petitions for ACM offices are to be submitted to the ACM Elections Committee, c/o Pat Ryan, COO, ACM Headquarters, 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121, USA, by 31 January 2016. Duplicate copies of the petitions should also be sent to the Chair of the Elections Committee, Gerry Segal, c/o ACM Headquarters. All candidates nominated by petition are reminded of the requirements stated in the Policy and Procedures on Nominations and Elections that a candidate for high office must meet in order to serve with distinction. This document is available on http://www.acm.org/about/acm-policies-procedures, or copies may be obtained from Rosemary McGuinness, Office of Policy and Administration, ACM Headquarters. Statements and biographical sketches of all candidates will appear in the May 2016 issue of Communications.

The Nominating Committee would like to thank all those who helped us with their suggestions and advice.

Vinton G. Cerf, CHAIR,
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Jennifer Chayes, PJ Narayanan, and Doug Terry

Sidebar

On Diversity and ACM’s 2016 General Election

As the ACM election process begins its biannual schedule, I want to draw attention to the importance of thinking about diversity in our elected bodies. This consideration should be a matter of interest, not only to the nominations committee that I chair this year, but to the electorate as well.

In the past several years, ACM has invested time and effort to become more geographically inclusive through the creation of the ACM-Europe, ACM-China, and ACM-India Councils. We have more work to do along those lines in other regions of geographic importance. Equally important are other axes of diversity including gender and ethnicity. We want our elected officials to reflect the diversity of the computing industry and, frankly, we want to help increase the diversity in this sector. The statistics of involvement in computing are notably out of balance with too few women and too little representation among ethnic groups. The computing community will be well served to increase the participation of diverse constituents and that is equally true of ACM’s elected and appointed positions.

I hope you will take these points into account as you consider recommendations for nominees for our elected posts, our awards, and member advancement opportunities. Similarly, as voting begins, please keep in mind the value of diversity on our boards and councils.

Vinton G. Cerf,
PAST PRESIDENT, CHAIR, NOMINATING COMMITTEE