The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2018 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s “most prestigious member grade,” which “recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.” The 2018 list honors 56 members of ACM for their contributions to computing.

Among the 2018 Fellows is Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member David Parkes (Harvard University), recognized for his “contributions to computational markets, including novel mechanism design and incentive engineering methods.” David joined the CCC this year and is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group that is leading the CCC’s effort to develop an AI Roadmap. The AI Roadmap is similar to one of the CCC’s first activities, the Robotics Roadmap, which helped to launch the National Robotics Initiative in 2011 and the subsequent 2016 Robotics Roadmap and NRI 2.0. The AI Roadmap will be generated as part of the output of a workshop series taking place this fall and winter.

Other CCC contributors that were granted Fellowship are Jessica Hodgins (Carnegie Mellon University) “for contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics” and Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University) “for contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding.” Jessica is one of the organizers of the CCC’s upcoming Content Generation for Workforce Training workshop, while Fei-Fei Li is the co-chair of the third AI Roadmap workshop, on Learning and Robotics.

Congratulations to all the Fellows on their significant achievements! To see the full list of Fellows visit the ACM webpage.