ACM Names 47 Distinguished Members for Computing Innovations

2010 Recipients Hail from Leading International Universities and Industries

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New York, NY, November 16, 2010 -- ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has named 47 of its members as Distinguished Members in recognition of their individual contributions to practical and theoretical aspects of computing that drive innovation and sustain economic competitiveness. This year’s Distinguished Members include computer engineers and scientists who represent academic and corporate institutions from a broad spectrum of countries and disciplines. Nearly 40 percent of the 2010 honorees are from non-North American countries, including France, Germany, Italy, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, India, and South Africa. The new Distinguished Members are recognized for significant advances in computing technology that have dramatically influenced progress in science, engineering, business, and many other areas of human endeavor.

“This year’s Distinguished Members reflect the growing international diversity of ACM’s membership and our commitment to recognizing excellence throughout the computing world,” said Alain Chesnais, president of ACM. “These prominent men and women have met the stringent criteria for this honor by demonstrating creativity, leadership, and dedication to computing and computer science. Their achievements buttress the innovations that sustain competitiveness in a global economy. We applaud their entrepreneurial and creative spirit and its beneficial impact on society.”

The ACM Distinguished Member program can recognize the top 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field. ACM’s current worldwide membership exceeds 97,000.

Some 60 percent of the 2010 recipients are from leading research and academic institutions around the world. They were recognized for achievements in cybersecurity, software engineering and architecture, data mining and management, Web systems, 3D user interfaces, interactive multimedia, biomedical computing, and programming language implementation.

Among representatives from renowned global businesses and industries, recipients were recognized for achievements in Web performance evaluation, computer architecture virtualization, mobile computing, wireless networking, and Web image and information retrieval.

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2010 ACM Distinguished Engineers (6):

Mark S. Anderson, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia	Carl Waldspuger, VMware, Inc.
Liana L. Fong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center	Dan Wolfson, IBM Software Group
Linda M. Northrop, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University	Andrew Woo, NGRAIN (Canada) Corporation, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2010 Distinguished Scientists (41)

Divyakant Agrawal, University of California, Santa Barbara	Dino G. Mandrioli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Martin F. Arlitt, Hewlett Packard Laboratories/University of Calgary	Tshilidzi Marwala, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Vasanth Bala, IBM Research	Gail C. Murphy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
M. Brian Blake, University of Notre Dame	Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Doug A. Bowman, Virginia Tech	Lori Pollock, University of Delaware
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh	Ramachandran Ramjee, Microsoft Research India
Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo! Research	Steven K. Reinhardt, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Donald D. Cowan, University of Waterloo	Andrew Sears, UMBC, Baltimore
Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Research	Joel I. Seiferas, University of Rochester
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa	Shiuhpyng Shieh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Serge Fdida, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France	Anand Sivasubramaniam, Pennsylvania State University
Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech	Kevin Skadron, University of Virginia
Juan E. Gilbert, Clemson University	Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas
David Grove, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	Walter F. Tichy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Mary W. Hall, University of Utah	Joseph Touch, University of Southern California
Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University	Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM Research – India, Bangalore	Kesheng Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Huan Liu, Arizona State University	Jun Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China	Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Haifa, Israel	Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Paul P. Maglio, IBM Research – Almaden

For more information about the selection criteria and a complete list of 2010 Distinguished Members, please visit the 2010 Distinguished Members page.

About ACM

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing 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.

About the ACM Recognition Program

The ACM Fellows program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The ACM Distinguished Member program, initiated in 2006, recognizes those members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. The ACM Senior Member program, also initiated in 2006, includes members with at least 10 years of professional experience who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers through technical leadership, technical contributions and professional contributions. The new ACM Fellows, Distinguished Members, and Senior Members join a list of eminent colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.