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ACM AWARDS
HONOR ADVANCES IN INTERNET, PROGRAMMING,
SOFTWARE
TECHNOLOGY
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NEW
YORK, March 1,
2005 -- ACM, the Association for
Computing Machinery, today announced the winners of four
prestigious awards honoring advances in computing
technology. The awards reflect outstanding achievements
ranging from improving Internet communications to
innovative programming language and software designs to
creative applications of computer science in the fine
arts. This year's winners represent innovative research
teams and new luminaries as well as renaissance thinkers
in the computing field. ACM will present these and other
awards at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 11,
2005, in San Francisco, CA.
The 2004 ACM awards winners include:
- Jennifer Rexford of Princeton University --
the Grace Murray Hopper Award for her work on assuring
stable and efficient Internet routing. The Hopper
Award recognizes the outstanding young computer
professional of the year.
- Yoav Freund of Columbia University and Robert
Schapire of Princeton University -- the Paris
Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for their
contribution to highly accurate prediction rules used
in web search engines. The Kanellakis Award honors
specific theoretical accomplishments that
significantly affect the practice of
computing.
- Secure Network Programming -- the Software
System Award for SNP, the first secure sockets layer
designed for Internet applications, aimed at achieving
secure network programming for widespread use.
SNP was designed and implemented by Raghuram
Bindignavle, Simon Lam, Shaowen Su, and Thomas Woo in
1993, while at the University of Texas at Austin
Networking Research Laboratory. This work was
funded by the National Security Agency and the
National Science Foundation. The Software System
Award is given to an institution or individual(s)
recognized for developing software systems that have
had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to
concepts and/or commercial acceptance.
- Richard Gabriel of Sun Microsystems -- the
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for his role in shaping
the growth and impact of object technology, and his
influence in developing a software design community
that cares about clear communication of ideas. A
published poet and musician, Gabriel conceived of
java.net as a self-creating and self-governed web
place where communities join to build a city of
diverse interests engaged in using the Java language
and technology in routine and innovative ways. The
Newell Award recognizes career contributions that have
breadth within computer science, or that bridge
computer science and other disciplines.
"These
awards highlight the essential role of computing in
today's technology-driven world," said ACM President
David Patterson. "Like the recently announced winners of
ACM's A.M. Turing Award, these contributions all
recognize ground breaking innovations that influence how
we communicate through the Internet. They also serve to
illustrate the integral role for computer science skills
in disparate callings like Internet traffic, network
programming, architecture and poetry," he noted.
About the
Awards
Grace
Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding
young computer professional of the year, selected on the
basis of a single recent major technical or service
contribution. This award is accompanied by a prize of
$15,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or
less at the time the qualifying contribution was made.
Financial support for this award is provided by
Google.
Paris
Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honors specific
theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant
and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing.
This award is accompanied by a prize of $5,000 and is
endowed by contributions from the Kanellakis family,
with additional financial support provided by ACM's
Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computational
Theory (SIGACT), Design Automaton (SIGDA), Management of
Data (SIGMOD), and Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), the
ACM SIG Projects Fund, and individual
contributions.
Software
System Award honors an institution or individual(s)
recognized for developing a software system that has had
a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to
concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both. This award
carries a prize of $10,000. Financial support for the
award is provided by IBM.
ACM/AAAI
Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual
selected for career contributions that have breadth
within computer science, or that bridge computer science
and other disciplines. This endowed award is accompanied
by a prize of $10,000, and is supported by the American Association for
Artificial Intelligence, and by individual
contributions.
About
ACM
ACM
(http://www.acm.org/)
is widely recognized as the premier organization for
computing professionals, delivering a broad array of
resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines,
enable professional development, and promote policies
and research that benefit society. For further
information, contact Virginia Gold 212-626-0505 or vgold@acm.org.
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