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ACM is out with its 2011 Fellows, 46 of its members from universities, corporations, and research labs being recognized “for their contributions to computing that have provided fundamental knowledge to the computing field and generated multiple technology advances in industry, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and education.” They join a distinguished set of colleagues honored since 1993.
Check out the 2011 Fellows and their contributions to the field after the jump…
| Serge Abiteboul INRIA SaclayFor contributions to the theory and practice of databases |
Divyakant Agrawal University of California, Santa BarbaraFor contributions to distributed data management systems |
| Ronald M. Baecker University of TorontoFor contributions to human-computer interaction and computer animation |
Thomas J. Ball Microsoft ResearchFor contributions to software analysis and defect detection |
| Guy Blelloch Carnegie Mellon UniversityFor contributions to parallel computing |
Carl Ebeling University of WashingtonFor contributions to the architecture and design of reconfigurable systems |
| David Eppstein University of California, IrvineFor contributions to graph algorithms and computational geometry |
Geoffrey C. Fox Indiana UniversityFor contributions to software applications for high-performance computing, and for diversity outreach |
| George W. Furnas University of MichiganFor contributions to human-computer interaction |
David K. Gifford Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFor contributions to distributed systems, e-commerce and content distribution |
| Ramesh Govindan University of Southern CaliforniaFor contributions to computer networking |
Baining Guo Microsoft ResearchFor contributions to computer graphics |
| David Heckerman Microsoft ResearchFor contributions to reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty |
Gerard J. Holzmann NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryFor contributions to software verification by model checking |
| Hugues Hoppe Microsoft ResearchFor contributions to computer graphics |
Christian S. Jensen Aarhus UniversityFor contributions to temporal and spatio-temporal data management |
| Howard J. Karloff AT&T Labs – ResearchFor contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms |
Stephen W. Keckler NVIDIA Corporation/The University of Texas at AustinFor contributions to computer architectures and technology modeling |
| Peter B. Key Microsoft ResearchFor network control and routing |
Scott Kirkpatrick The Hebrew University of JerusalemFor simulated annealing and contributions to combinatorial optimization |
| Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon UniversityFor contributions to human-computer interaction |
Susan Landau Harvard UniversityFor public policy leadership in security and privacy |
| Ming C. Lin University of North Carolina at Chapel HillFor contributions to geometric modeling and computer graphics |
Peter S. Magnusson Google Inc.For contributions to full-system simulation |
| Dahlia Malkhi Microsoft ResearchFor contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing |
Keith Marzullo National Science Foundation/University of California, San DiegoFor contributions to distributed systems and service to the computing community |
| Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of TechnologyFor contributions to the design of high-performance computers |
Nelson Max University of California, DavisFor contributions to visualization tools and computer animation |
| Joseph S.B. Mitchell Stony Brook UniversityFor contributions to geometric computing and approximation algorithms |
Shubu Mukherjee Cavium, Inc.For contributions to modeling and design of high-performance and soft-error-tolerant microarchitectures |
| Beng Chin Ooi National University of SingaporeFor contributions to spatio-temporal and distributed data management |
Zehra Meral Özsoyoglu Case Western Reserve UniversityFor contributions to database management systems |
| Janos Pach École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne—EPFL/Renyi Institute/Courant Institute at NYUFor contributions to computational geometry |
Linda Petzold University of California, Santa BarbaraFor contributions to computational science |
| Martha E. Pollack University of MichiganFor contributions to planning systems design and for service to the computing community |
Dan Roth University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFor contributions to machine learning and natural language processing |
| John W. Sanguinetti Forte Design SystemsFor contributions to hardware simulation |
Margo Seltzer Harvard University/Oracle CorporationFor contributions to data management and computing systems |
| Amit Singhal Google Inc.For contributions to search and information retrieval |
Diane L. Souvaine Tufts UniversityFor contributions to computational geometry and for service on behalf of the computing community |
| Divesh Srivastava AT&T Labs – ResearchFor contributions to query processing in data management systems |
Dan Suciu University of WashingtonFor contributions to probabilistic databases and semistructured data |
| Dean M. Tullsen University of California, San DiegoFor contributions to the architecture of high-performance processors |
Amin Vahdat University of California, San Diego/Google Inc.For contributions to data center scalability and management |
| David J. Wetherall University of WashingtonFor contributions to computer network design |
Frank Kenneth Zadeck L.J. Gonzer AssociatesFor contributions to optimizing compilers |
For more, check out ACM’s press release announcing this year’s Fellows.
Congratulations to our colleagues!
(Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)
