ACM AWARDS

SIG BOARD

Chicago, February 5, 2007

Calvin Gotlieb, Co-chair, ACM Awards Committee

ccg@cs.toronto.edu

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Awards Committee Structure www.acm.org/awards

ACM President | ACM Awards Committee

| ACM-wide Award Selection Committees SIG Award Selection Committees A.M. Turing Award, Distinguished Service SIGACT Goedel PrizeSoftware System, Doctoral Dissertation SIGADA Distinguished ServiceGrace Murray Hopper, Fellows SIGAPL Kenneth E. Iverson Outstanding Contribution to ACM SIGARCH Maurice WilkesParis Kanellakis Theory and Practice SIGCAS Making a DifferenceInternational Science and Engineering Fair SIGCSE Lifetime ServiceEugene Lawler SIGRAPH Stephen A. CookGordon Bell Prize (with Supercomputing Conf,) SIGMETRIC Achievement Eckert_Mauchly (with IEEE CS) SIGDOC Joseph T. RigoAllen Newell (with AAAI) SIGMOD InnovationsComputational Science and Eng,( with SIAM) SIGMOD Test of TimeDistinguished Member, Senior Member SIGPLAN Programming LanguagesCanvassing Subcommittees SIGSOFT Outstanding Research SIGWEB/SIR Vannevar Bush . 58 in all

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POLICIES RE AWARD ESTABLISHMENTwww.acm.org/awards/policies.html

Awards may be for: Merit Service Best paperNew Awards• Must have ACM sponsoring unit – SIG, Council, Awards Committee … (May be in conjunction with other groups)• Must include: Statements of criteria, frequency Descriptions of nomination, selection processes, form of the award Plan for financing honorarium, where applicable• Must be approved by ACM Awards Committee• Named Awards must be approved by Council –after recommendation

Pro forma approval for Service, Best paper awards with proper documentation

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ACM Awards Committee

FunctionMonitors progress of award selection committeesAdvises on policy, new awardsDoes not select award winners

MembershipACM President (Stuart Feldman), CEO (John White) ex-officioChair (Co-chairs—Calvin Gotlieb, Jim Horning)Current chairs of ACM-wide Award Selection committeesSIG Chairs Liaison with Awards Committee ( Fred Niederman)

Meets annually in conjunction with ACM Awards Banquet

Annual Report (Follow link from Awards web page)

Rosemary McGuiness at ACM HQ Awards Liaison mcguinness@acm.org

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ACM-wide Award Selection Committees

• Consist of 3-5 ACM members for 3-5 year terms

(Note: Award winners need not be members of ACM)• Practice is for members to assume chair in next-to-last year• Members may be appointed by Award Committee co-chairs

Committee chair must be approved by ACM President

Because of Practice, Presidential approval sought before

appointment• Recommendations for appointments welcomed from:

Outgoing chairs

SIGs, where interests coincide with those of the Award• Except for Fellows Committee, award selection done by e-mail,

conference call

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Nominations for Awards

• Nomination process must be open, broad• Nominations for merit awards should not be made by members of

the selection committee (Acceptable for service, best paper awards)

If you know of a worthy candidate, it is reasonable to approach

a friend, and solicit a nomination on his/her behalf• Be aware of cliques where a small group of members nominate

each other• Practice on holdovers from one year to the next, varies

Most committees do have holdovers for small number of years

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ACM Awards Banquet, Annual Meeting of Awards Committee

• Held in different city each year, as determined by Council• May be stand-alone, or with a conference, Council meeting --• Banquet now ACM gala event, with President presiding

Seating usually sold out• ACM covers travel costs of incoming, outgoing chairs of ACM-wide

Award committees• Awards Banquet Program lists award winners (both ACM-wide and

SIG), citations, identifies sponsors, previous award winners, award nomination procedures, etc. (see sample distribution)

2007 Awards Banquet Saturday, June 9, San Diego