Message from the ACM CEO - Call for Nominations for 2024 ACM Awards
August 28, 2024
Dear ACM Community,
ACM seeks your help in building and diversifying the nomination pool for our 2024 Awards. It is often the case that people wonder why individuals who seem highly deserving have not received an ACM award. The typical answer is that the individuals in question were never nominated. ACM needs participation from the community to ensure that the individuals from our diverse field are nominated for ACM Honors, which include ACM Awards and ACM Advanced Member Grades such as Fellow. The committees that select recipients of these Honors work by evaluating nominations that have been submitted by ACM members and the broader community. If you know of deserving individuals, please take the time to make sure they are nominated.
As ACM seeks to get the word out about the need to nominate highly qualified candidates, we ask people to consider ACM’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As noted by ACM’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, this commitment includes multiple aspects of diversity such as age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, physical ability, thinking style, and experience. We encourage all potential nominators to think of these factors when considering deserving individuals to nominate. While candidates for advanced member grades (Fellow or Distinguished Member) must be ACM members, candidates for ACM Awards do not need to be members to be nominated.
We ask you to help distribute the attached ACM Awards Call for Nominations to your network through distribution lists, related organizations, and individual contacts to help ensure that deserving individuals are nominated.
The list in the link below outlines ACM awards not only for lifelong contributions, but also for early-to-mid career contributions and specific types of contributions such as education or outstanding contributions to ACM, along with specific attention to certain technical areas such as artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and programming systems. There is also the Athena Lecturer Award that each year honors a preeminent woman in computing, and the inaugural Luiz André Barroso Award which celebrates the contributions of researchers from communities historically underrepresented in computing from across the world. Award nominations are due December 15, 2024, except for the Doctoral Dissertation Award which are due October 31, 2024.
Again, ACM seeks your assistance in broadly distributing this call for nominations. Details about the nomination process for individual awards can be found at https://awards.acm.org/award-nominations. Remember, deserving individuals cannot receive these awards unless someone such as you take the time to submit their nomination for an Award!
Vicki L. Hanson
ACM Chief Executive Officer
