ACM Events Honor Computing's Top Achievers
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The Bay Area was the scene of this year's ACM Awards celebrations. In addition
to the gala banquet at San Francisco's Palace Hotel honoring all winners, a
historic, first-time reception
for the winners of the Turing Award (widely known as the Nobel Prize of
computing) was held at the Computer History Museum, where nine laureates
joined their colleagues.
Turing Award Reception at the Computer History Museum
Turing Award winners past and present: Butler Lampson (1992), Alan Kay (2003), Ed Feigenbaum (1994), Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn (2004), Doug Engelbart (1997), Donald Knuth (1974), Raj Reddy (1994)
ARPANET pioneers Leonard Kleinrock and Larry Roberts with Ed Feigenbaum and Bob Kahn
Alan Kay, Donald Knuth, Robert Tarjan (Turing Award winner, 1986)
ACM Awards Banquet at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco
ACM CEO John White, David Tennenhouse, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group and Director of Research for Intel, Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf, and ACM President Dave Patterson
Gordon Bell, ACM Fellow and Senior Researcher at Microsoft Media Presence Research Group, Gabriel (Gabby) Silberman, Program Director of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies and ACM Council Member, Jane Bourne, and Steve Bourne, Former ACM President
Gabby Silberman and ACM Vice President Stu Feldman
Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb, Awards Committee Co-Chair
Jim Horning, Awards Committee Co-Chair
Richard Gabriel, winner of the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
Robert Schapire and Yoav Freund, winners of the Paris Kanellakis Award, flanked by John White and Dave Patterson
Winners of the Software System Award, sponsored by IBM: Shaowen Su, Thomas Y. C. Woo Simon S. Lam, and Raghuram Bindignavle, flanked by John White and Dave Patterson, with Gabby Silberman (center)
Rick Snodgrass, winner of the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award, with John White and Dave Patterson
E.G. Coffman, Jr., winner of the Distinguished Service Award
Jennifer Rexford (right), winner of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, with Natasha Haase
Alan Eustace, Google's Vice President of Research and Systems Engineering, and Google Co-Founder Larry Page join Jennifer Rexford on stage. Google provided funding for this year's Grace Murray Hopper Award.
Boaz Barak, winner of the Doctoral Dissertation Award, and wife Ravit
2004 ACM Fellows flanked by Dave Patterson and John White: Andrew A. Chien, Mark D. Hill, Joel S. Emer, Per-Åke (Paul) Larson, Allan J. Gottlieb, Peter Lee, Yannis Ioannidis, Paul Mockapetris, Richard E. Schantz, and David S. Wise (enlarge)
Student Research Competition Grand Finals winners (front row): Kamil Wnuk, Tao Xie, Kulesh Shammugasundaran, Spiros Xanthos, Eric Bodden, and Jane Tougas. Back row: John White, Ann Sobel (competition coordinator), Mark Lewin of Microsoft (SRC sponsor), and Dave Patterson.
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