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ACM AWARDS HONOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPUTING
Doctoral Dissertation Award Honors Cryptography Research
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NEW YORK, March 10, 2005 -- ACM, the
Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the winners of two awards honoring significant contributions to the computing field. E G. Coffman of Columbia University has been awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award for a career of notable scholarly contributions to the Computer Science community. Richard T. Snodgrass of the University of Arizona is the recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award for exceptional leadership in broadening the vision of the ACM Digital Library, and for service to the board of ACM's Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD). In addition, ACM announced that Boaz Barak received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis entitled "Non-Black Box Techniques in Cryptography." ACM will present these and other awards at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 11, 2005, in San Francisco, CA.
2004 ACM Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Coffman pioneered time-sharing systems and computer networks, and conducted seminal research in performance evaluation. He also made fundamental contributions in scheduling theory, queueing theory and combinatorial optimization. With the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's, Dr. Coffman, a veteran of extensive collaborations with Soviet computer scientists, played a key role in facilitating their integration into the western scientific community. He was instrumental in securing a grant from AT&T Bell Laboratories to fund applied probability and information theory groups in Moscow and Leningrad in the immediate post-Communist era.
Dr. Coffman, an ACM Fellow, co-founded ACM's Special Interest Group on Metrics (SIGMETRICS) and served as an initial editor of numerous journals on scheduling, performance evaluation and networking. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM, and currently sits on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Algorithms and the Journal of Interconnection Networks.
A graduate of UCLA, Dr. Coffman received a Ph.D. in Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering, and a B.S. in Mathematics. He has held professorships at Princeton University, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the Mathematics Research Center of Bell Labs from 1979-1999. Dr. Coffman received the ACM Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award in 1987, and the first ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in 2002.
2004 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award
Dr. Snodgrass led a successful effort to align ACM's Special Interest Groups behind the goal of broadening the ACM Digital Library, the renowned archival resource for the computing research community, into a portal spanning the entire computing literature, with more than 40 years of publications, proceedings, and bibliographic sources.
An ACM Fellow, Dr. Snodgrass is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) and co-chair of the ACM History Committee. He chaired both ACM's Publications Board and ACM SIGMOD, and served on the ACM Council and the SIG Governing Board Executive Committee, and was program chair for the 1994 ACM SIGMOD Conference.
A graduate of Carleton College with a B.A. in Physics, Dr. Snodgrass holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include temporal databases, query language design, query optimization and evaluation, storage structures and database design. Dr. Snodgrass received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2002.
2004 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Boaz Barak, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, conducted his doctoral dissertation work at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, from which he received a Ph.D. in 2004. He earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. His current research is in foundations of cryptography and complexity theory. He will become an assistant professor in Princeton University's Computer Science Department this summer.
Honorable Mention for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award went to Ramesh Johari of Stanford University for his thesis "Efficiency Loss in Market Mechanism for Resource Allocation," and Emmett Witchel of the University of Texas, Austin for his thesis "Mondriaan Memory Protection." Both nominations were submitted by MIT.
The Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation in computer science and engineering. The amount of the Doctoral Dissertation Award is $5,000. Financial support and the publication of the winning dissertation are provided by Springer-Verlag.
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