Call for ACM Award Nominations

KEY PEOPLE NOMINATIONS SOLICITED

 

As part of its mission, ACM brings broad recognition to outstanding technical and professional achievements within the computing and information technology community.  Each year our award committees evaluate the contributions of candidates for various awards that span a spectrum of professional and technological accomplishments. 

 

Nominations by ACM members of those who deserve recognition for their contributions to the field of computing are welcomed. 

 

The deadline for the following ACM awards is November 30, 2010:

 

A.M. Turing Award:  http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?awd=140

            ACM – Infosys Foundation Award:  http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?awd=165

            Distinguished Service Award:  http://awards.acm.org/distinguished%5Fservice/

            Doctoral Dissertation Award:  http://awards.acm.org/doctoral%5Fdissertation/

            Grace Murray Hopper Award:  http://awards.acm.org/hopper/

            Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award:  http://awards.acm.org/kanellakis/

            Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award:  http://awards.acm.org/karlstrom/

            Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics:

            http://awards.acm.org/lawler/ - Biennial

            Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award:  http://awards.acm.org/outstanding%5Fcontribution/

            ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award: http://awards.acm.org/newell/

            Software System Award:  http://awards.acm.org/software%5Fsystem/

                        

For information on SIG Awards please see:  http://www.acm.org/sigs/sig-awards

 

Here are the exceptions to the November 30^th deadline.

                        ACM Distinguished Member – August 2, 2010:  http://www.acm.org/awards/distinguished_member_nom_guide.html

                        Please see Marc Snir and Telle Whitney's article "Advice to Members Seeking Distinction:  http://awards.acm.org/html/distinguished_advice.cfm

                        ACM Fellows - September 1, 2010:  http://awards.acm.org/html/fellow_nom_guide.cfm

                        Please see Jim Horning's "Making the case for an ACM Fellow": http://awards.acm.org/html/making_the_case_for_acm_fellow.cfm

                        Please refer to the ACM Fellows Guide for updated nomination information:  http://awards.acm.org/html/fellow_nom_guide.cfm

                        ACM Senior Members:  Sept. 1, 2010 http://www.acm.org/awards/senior_member_nom_guide.html

                        ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - October 31, 2010:  http://awards.acm.org/html/dda.cfm

                        ACM – IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award - March 1, 2011:  http://awards.acm.org/eckert%5Fmauchly/  

                        ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award - TBA: http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?awd=167

                        ACM Gordon Bell Prize – http://awards.acm.org/bell/   http://sc10.supercomputing.org/schedule/schedule_all.php

                        ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award:  https://acm-w.acm.org/public/acmw/athena_nomination.cfm

 

Please refer to the ACM Awards page, http://www.acm.org/awards/, for:

• award descriptions, and lists containing the names of the previous ACM Award winners and their citations,
• nomination procedures for the 2010 awards, including the membership of the 2010 Award Committees, and contact information for the chairs:  http://awards.acm.org/html/award_nominations.cfm

 

Thank you.

 

C.C. Gotlieb, ACM Awards Committee Co-chair (ccg@cs.toronto.edu)

J.J. Horning, ACM Awards Committee Co-chair (horning@acm.org)

 

SGB Awards Committee Liaison:  Robert A. Walker (walker@cs.kent.edu)

 

Rosemary McGuinness, ACM Awards Committee Liaison (mcguinness@acm.org)