The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society announced Kunle Olukotun, a Professor at Stanford University and former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop organizer, as the recipient of the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions and leadership in the development of parallel systems. The Eckert-Mauchly Award is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. It is co-sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society and comes with a $5,000 prize. In the early 1990s, Olukotun became a leading designer of a new kind of microprocessor known as a “chip multiprocessor”—today called a “multicore processor.” His work demonstrated the performance advantages of multicore processors over […]

The American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS) recently announced 269 new members elected to the academy. Among them are nine new members under the “computer science” category, including several that have worked closely with the Computing Research Association, CRA-Widening Participation, and  Computing Community Consortium in the past.  The Academy is an honorary society that recognizes outstanding individuals across all disciplines, perspectives, and professions. Founded in 1780 the American Academy of Arts and Science brings together cutting-edge researchers to examine new ideas and work together to  “cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” Please […]

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) just announced their new class of 2023 Fellows. AAAI is a nonprofit that aims to advance and promote research in, and the responsible use of, artificial intelligence. Each year, AAAI asks the community to nominate members of the community that have made “significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence” for the Fellows program. Fellows are selected by a Fellows Selection Committee comprising nine current Fellows, and chaired by the Past President of AAAI. Nominees are chosen based on individual technical contributions or for having performed significant extended service for the AAAI. There are 11 2023 AAAI Fellows. Among them […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently announced their 2022 Fellows. The ACM Fellows award recognizes individuals for their important work and contributions to the computing field. The 2022 ACM Fellows are made up of 57 individuals from many different areas of expertise and countries. ACM states the following about the award: “ACM’s most prestigious member grade 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. Candidates for Fellow must have at least 5 years of Professional Membership within the last 10 years.” Among the 2022 ACM Fellows are members of the community […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just announced their 2023 class of Elevated Fellows. Among them are members of the community with past affiliations and/or involvement with the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium activities.  Fred Chong (Speaker at CCC Workshop “Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role”) Aaron Dollar (Contributor to the 2016 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics) Juan Gilbert (2009 CIFellow Mentor, also participated in several CRA and CRA-WP events) Yoshi Kohno (Presenter Computer Science: Past, Present and Future)  Jana Kosecka (contributor to 2009 and 2020 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics and author of white paper “Next Generation Robotics”) […]

The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. The conference was held in Seattle, Washington on on November 1st-4th, 2022. 1st Place: “Causal Inference for Interpretable and Robust Machine Learning in Mobility Analysis” by Yanan Xin (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich), Natasa Tagasovska (Prescient Design, Genentech | Roche), Fernando Perez-Cruz (Swiss Data Science Center) and Martin Raubal (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich) 2nd Place: “Geospatial Accessibility and Inclusion by Combining Contextual Filters, the Metaverse and Ambient Intelligence” by Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs – Research), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T) and Divesh Srivastava (AT&T). 3rd Place: “Electric Vehicle […]