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ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) regularly cite outstanding individuals
for their contributions in more than 30 distinct technological fields. Some
recent honorees reflect the broad scope of computing achievements and the
active efforts of several SIGs to acknowledge their members and advance their
expertise. These winners include:
SIGACT Knuth Prize
Mihalis Yannakakis, professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and
an ACM Fellow, received the Knuth Prize for his contributions to theoretical
Computer Science. Yannakakis was cited for his work in verification as "arguably
the researcher most responsible for laying the rigorous algorithmic and complexity-theoretic
foundations of the field." The Prize, which is given every 1 ½
years by ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory
(SIGACT) and the IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing, includes
a $5,000 award. It was presented at the Foundations of Computer Science 2005
Symposium (FOCS).
SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty, Best Paper, Dissertation Awards
The Outstanding New Faculty Award was presented to David Pan, Assistant Professor
in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of
Texas at Austin. Pan is currently teaching VLSI design automation. The award
recognizes a junior faculty member early in her or his academic career who
demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in electronic
design automation. The award carries a prize of $1,000.
Zhenhai Zhu and Jacob K. White of MIT were awarded the William J. McCalla
ICCAD Best Paper Award for their paper, FastSies:
A Fast Stochastic Integral Equation Solver for Modeling the Rough Surface
Effect. The award is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society (CAS), the IEEE Computer Society Design Automation Technical Committee,
and SIGDA.
The Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation was
awarded to Shuvendu K. Lahiri of Carnegie Mellon University, for "Unbounded
System Verification using Decision Procedure and Predicate Abstraction."
The award is given for the PhD dissertation that makes the most substantial
contribution to the theory and/or application in electronic design automation.
The award carries a prize of $1,000.
The awards were presented at the ICCAD
2005 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, co-sponsored by
SIGDA, ACM's Special Interest Group
on Design Automation, IEEE CAS, and IEEE-CS.
SIGOPS Mark Weiser, Hall of Fame Awards
Tom Anderson, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at the University of Washington, has received the Mark Weiser Award, which
is given to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in
operating systems research. The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is named
in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his research
accomplishments during his career at Xerox PARC.
The SOSP Hall of Fame Award
recognizes the most influential papers from the ACM Symposium on Operating
Systems Principles (SOSP) at least ten
years in the past. Five authors received the awards for their papers:
Edsger W. Dijkstra, The
structure of the "THE"-multiprogramming system
Peter Denning, The
working set model for program behavior
Butler Lampson, Hints
for computer system design
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The
UNIX time-sharing system
The awards were presented at SOSP, which is sponsored by SIGOPS,
ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems.
SIGSAC Innovation, Contribution Awards
Whitfield Diffie, Vice President, Sun Fellow, and Chief Security Officer at
Sun Microsystems, received the SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for his
technical contributions to computer and communication security. Diffie, best
known for discovering the concept of public key cryptography, also was a co-recipient
of ACM's Paris
Kanellakis Award in 1996.
Peter G. Neumann, Principal Scientist at SRI's Computer Research Lab, moderator
of the Risks Forum and editor of the "Inside Risks" column for Communications
of the ACM, received the Outstanding Contribution Award for fostering research
and development activities, educating students, and providing services such
as running professional societies and conferences.
The awards were presented at the CCS
2005 Conference on Computer and Communications Security, sponsored by
ACM's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC).
Each award carries a $1,000 prize and a plaque.
SIGUCCS Penny Crane Award
J. Michael Yohe, Executive Director of Electronic Information Services at
Valparaiso University, received the 2005 Penny
Crane Award in recognition of his significant service to higher education,
the computing profession, and to SIGUCCS,
ACM's Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services.
Yohe was conference chair of the Spring 2003 Computer Services Management
Symposium, and was program chair in 1989, 1996, and 2002. He also served as
presenter at the Fall User Services Conferences in 1994, 1995, and 2000. The
award was established in honor of Penny Crane, a volunteer very active in
SIGUCCS, who died in 1999.
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