Contents u u u ACM Awards Reception and Banquet, June 2018 .................................................. 2 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 A.M. Turing Award .............................................................................................................. 4 ACM Prize in Computing ................................................................................................. 5 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award ............. 6 ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award .................................................................................. 7 Software System Award ................................................................................................... 8 Grace Murray Hopper Award ......................................................................................... 9 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ...........................................................10 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award .....................................................11 Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics ..........................................................12 Distinguished Service Award .......................................................................................13 ACM Athena Lecturer Award ........................................................................................14 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award ..............................................................15 Doctoral Dissertation Award ........................................................................................16 ACM Student Research Competition ........................................................................17 ACM Fellows .......................................................................................................................18 ACM Policy Award ............................................................................................................19 ACM – CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize ........................................................................................19 ACM Gordon Bell Prize ...................................................................................................20 ACM – IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award ......................................................................21 ACM – IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award ..........................................................................21 ACM – IEEE CS George Michael HPC Memorial Fellowships .............................22 SIAM – ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering .......................22 ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award ..................................................................23 ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award .................................................................23 ACM China Rising Star Award ......................................................................................24 IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research .............24 ACM Special Interest Group Awards ................................................................... 25-27 2018 ACM Award Subcommittee Chairs ..................................................................28 ACM Award Nomination Submission Procedures ................................................29 2019 ACM Award Subcommittee Chairs and Members .............................. 30-31 Past Recipients ........................................................................................................... 32-37 ACM Fellows Complete Listing ............................................................................. 38-46 In Memoriam, ACM Fellows ..........................................................................................47 1 ACM Awards Reception & Banquet u u u The Palace Hotel San Francisco, California June 23, 2018 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award (left to right) Vicki L. Hanson, ACM Past President and CEO; 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson; Jeffery Dean, Google Senior Fellow; and John R. White, ACM Awards Committee Co-Chair. 2017 ACM Prize in Computing (left to right) Vicki L. Hanson, ACM Past President and CEO; Srikantan Moorthy, Infosys Head of Talent Acquisition; Dina Katabi, 2017 ACM Prize in Computing recipient; and John R. White, ACM Awards Committee Co-Chair. 2 ACM AWARDS u u u Introduction ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. ACM’s overarching goal is to advance computing as a science and a profession. A very important part of this goal is to recognize outstanding technical and professional achievements in computing and computer science through our series of awards. These prestigious and internationally recognized honors are an integral part of ACM’s mission to unite computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field’s challenges. ACM welcomes nominations for candidates whose work exemplifies the best and most influential contributions to our community, and society at large. More information on nominating candidates for future awards is available on page 29 in this booklet. The awards included in this overview are being presented at the 2019 ACM Awards Banquet on June 15, 2019, at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. More information on ACM’s Awards Programs can be found at https:// awards.acm.org, including links to the full award citations and a downloadable version of this booklet. 3 A.M. Turing Award Yoshua Bengio Geoffrey Hinton Yann LeCun University of Montreal Google/Vector Institute Facebook Mila University of Toronto New York University u u u The A.M. Turing Award is presented to Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Working independently and together, Bengio, Hinton and LeCun developed conceptual foundations for the field, identified surprising phenomena through experiments, and contributed engineering advances that demonstrated the practical advantages of deep neural networks. In recent years, deep learning methods have been responsible for astonishing breakthroughs in computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and robotics—among other applications. While the use of artificial neural networks as a tool to help computers recognize patterns and simulate human intelligence had been introduced in the 1980’s, by the early 2000’s, LeCun, Hinton and Bengio were among a small group who remained committed to this approach. Though their efforts to rekindle the AI community’s interest in neural networks were initially met with skepticism, their ideas resulted in major technological advances, and their methodology is now the dominant paradigm in the field. This award celebrates the work of one of the founding fathers of modern computer science – Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954). In a 1936 paper, Turing introduced a precise definition of a computational machine (now called a Turing Machine). He is perhaps best known for his contributions during World War II in cracking the Enigma code. He later studied problems key to artificial intelligence. Accompanied by a prize of $1,000,000, ACM’s most prestigious award is given to recognize contributions of a technical nature which are of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field. Financial support of the A.M. Turing Award is provided by Google Inc. 4 ACM Prize in Computing Shwetak Patel University of Washington Google u u u The ACM Prize in Computing is presented to Shwetak Patel for contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health. Before Patel’s work, most systems for monitoring energy and health required expensive and cumbersome specialized devices, precluding practical widespread adoption. Patel and his students found highly creative ways to leverage infrastructure to make affordable and accurate monitoring a practical reality. Patel quickly turned his team’s research contributions into real-world deployments, founding companies to commercialize their work. Patel’s research closed the gap between science fiction and reality in many applications in ubiquitous computing for sustainability and health. The three broad areas in which Patel has made important contributions include monitoring energy and water usage in the home, low-powered home sensors, and digital health. The ACM Prize in Computing recognizes an early to mid-career fundamental, innovative contribution in computing that, through its depth, impact, and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline. The award carries a prize of $250,000. Financial support is provided by an endowment from Infosys Ltd. 5 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award Mendel Rosenblum Stanford University u u u The inaugural ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award is presented to Mendel Rosenblum of Stanford University for reinventing the virtual machine for the modern era and thereby revolutionizing datacenters and enabling modern cloud computing. In the late 1990s, Rosenblum and his students at Stanford University revisited the idea of virtual machines to develop system software for FLASH, an experimental large-scale multiprocessor. They recognized