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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 (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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