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ACM News -June 2019

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ACM Announces 2018 Turing Award Recipients

ACM has named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM’s highest honor, for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Working independently and together, Hinton, LeCun and Bengio developed conceptual foundations for the field, identified surprising phenomena through experiments, and contributed engineering advances that demonstrated the practical advantages of deep neural networks. Bengio is Professor, University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute; Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow, Google, Chief Scientific Adviser, The Vector Institute, and Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto; and LeCun is Professor at New York University and VP and Chief AI Scientist, Facebook.

 

OTHER AWARDS

Shwetak Patel Receives 2018 ACM Prize in Computing

ACM has named Shwetak Patel the recipient of the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health. Patel and his students found highly creative ways to leverage existing infrastructure to make affordable and accurate monitoring a practical reality. Patel quickly turned his team’s research contributions into real-world deployments.

Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Ubicomp Lab, which develops innovative sensing systems for real-world applications in health, sustainability and novel interactions. He is also a director at Google working on healthcare.

Mendel Rosenblum Honored with Inaugural ACM Thacker Breakthrough Award

ACM has named Mendel Rosenblum of Stanford University the recipient of the inaugural ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. He is being recognized for reinventing the virtual machine for the modern era and thereby revolutionizing datacenters and enabling modern cloud computing. Rosenblum is the DRC Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and co-founder of VMware, a private company that developed many of the core technologies that underpin cloud computing today.

Elisa Bertino Named 2019-2020 ACM Athena Lecturer

ACM has named Elisa Bertino of Purdue University the 2019-2020 Athena Lecturer for pioneering and impactful contributions to data management and data security theory and systems, along with outstanding contributions to broadening participation in computing via professional leadership and mentoring. Bertino is the Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, where she also heads the Cyber Space Security Lab.

ACM Honors Computing Innovators Who Are Changing the World

ACM has named the recipients of four prestigious technical awards for 2018.

Gerald C. Combs is the recipient of theACM Software System Award for creating the Wireshark network protocol analyzer.

Constantinos Daskalakis and Michael J. Freedman are recipients of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. Daskalakis is recognized for his seminal contributions to the theory of computation and economics, particularly the complexity of Nash Equilibrium. Freedman is cited for the design and deployment of self-organizing geo-distributed systems.

Pavel Pevzner is the recipient of the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for pioneering contributions to the theory, design and implementation of algorithms for string reconstruction and to their applications in the assembly of genomes.

Henry Kautz is the recipient of the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for contributions to artificial intelligence and computational social science, including fundamental results on the complexity of inference, planning and media analytics for public health.

ACM Recognizes Outstanding Service to Computing Field

ACM has recognized four individuals with its 2018 awards for their exemplary service to the computing field.

Robert Sedgewick is the recipient of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for developing classic textbooks and online materials for the study of algorithms, analytic combinatorics, and introductory computer science that have educated generations of students worldwide.

Victor Bahl is the recipient of the ACM Distinguished Service Award for significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia, industry, and government agencies.

Meenakshi Balakrishnan is the recipient of the Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics for research, development, and deployment of cost-effective embedded-system and software solutions addressing mobility and education challenges of the visually impaired in the developing world.

Chris Stephenson is the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Awardfor advancing CS education by architecting and nurturing the Computer Science Teachers Association to incorporate more than 22,000 K-12 CS educators and partners into the ACM community.

UC Berkeley Graduate Receives 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Chelsea Finn of the University of California, Berkeley is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Learning to Learn with Gradients.” In her thesis, Finn introduced algorithms for meta-learning that enable deep networks to solve new tasks from small datasets, and demonstrated how her algorithms can be applied in areas including computer vision, reinforcement learning and robotics.

Honorable Mentions for the award went to Ryan Beckett and Tengyu Ma, who both received PhD degrees in Computer Science from Princeton University.

 

FEATURED ACM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER

Shipeng Li is Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager coordinating multimedia research activities at Microsoft Research Asia. He has authored and co-authored over 280 journal and conference papers and holds 167 granted US patents in image/video processing, compression and communications, digital television, multimedia and wireless communication. Li has helped organize several conferences and was an invited panelist at ACM Multimedia 2010 on mobile computing.

 

STUDENT NEWS

ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals Winners

Here are the 2019 Grand Finals winners of the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft. There are two rounds of competition (for graduate and undergraduate students) at each conference hosting an SRC, which culminates in a Grand Finals competition.

Graduate Category:

First Place: Gengjie Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "VLSI Routing: Seeing Nano Tree in Giga Forest" (ICCAD 2018)

Second Place: Christie Louis Alappat, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: "RACE-Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine" (SC18)

Third Place: Scott Parker Kolodziej, Texas A&M University: "Empirical Assessment of Software Documentation Strategies: A Randomized Controlled Trial" (SIGCSE 2019)

Undergraduate Category:

First Place: Zhuangzhuang Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: "DALS: Delay-driven Approximate Logic Synthesis" (ICCAD 2018)

Second Place: Fandel Lin, National Cheng Kung University: "An Intelligent and Interactive Route Planning Maker for Deploying New Transportation Services" (SIGSPATIAL 2018)

Third Place: Elizaveta A. Tremsina, University of California, Berkeley: "Your Story Recorded in a Magnet: Micromagnetic Simulations of Spin-Orbit Torque in Multi-layer Structures" (Tapia 2018)

 

Upcoming ACM Student Research Competitions: Submission Deadlines

Learn more about competitions on the SRC submissions page and SRC guidelines for students.

 

ACM-W Student Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences

The ACM Women's Council (ACM-W) provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs to attend research conferences. This exposure to the computer science research world can encourage a student to continue on to the next level (Undergraduate to Graduate, Masters to Ph.D., Ph.D. to an industry or academic position). For application form, notification dates and more information, please visit the scholarships page.

 

LEARNING CENTER TECH TALKS 

April 3: The Future of Wireless and What It Will Enable  with ACM Athena Lecturer Andrea Goldsmith

April 30:The Exascale Computing Project and the Future of HPC with Doug Kothe

June 4:Agile Data Science: Achieving Salesforce-Scale Machine Learning in ProductionwithSarah Aerni

 

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Symposium on Symbolic & Algebraic Computation, July 15-18, 2019, Beijing

ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, July 15-19, 2019, Beijing

ACM SIGCOMM 2019, August 19-24, Beijing

Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, September 24-27, 2019, Chonqing

ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, September 24-26, 2019, Hong Kong