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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