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ACM 2004 Awards Banquet: Images from an Evening Celebrating Excellence
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Winners of the prestigious ACM Awards were
feted at ACM's annual Awards Banquet, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City
in June. Every year, ACM honors top achievers in the various disciplines of
computing. Nominations for next year's awards are already being accepted. For
more information, please visit the Award Nominations
page.
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ACM's new president David Patterson greets guests at the 2004 ACM Awards Banquet
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Outgoing ACM president Maria Klawe and David Patterson with Turing Award winner Alan Kay and his wife
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Alan Kay, who led the team that developed Smalltalk, accepting the $100,000 prize provided by Intel Corp.
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2003 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award winners David Haussler of UC Santa Cruz and Judea Pearl of UCLA, accepting their award from Maria Klawe and ACM CEO John White
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Patrick Ball of the Benetech Initiative, the 2003 recipient of the Eugene Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
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Stuart Feldman of IBM, winner of the Software System Award and ACM's new vice president
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Carnegie Mellon University's Gary Miller accepts the 2003 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award on behalf of co-recipients Michael Rabin (Harvard), Robert Solovay (UC Berkeley), and Volker Strassen (University of Konstanz, Germany)
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Sartaj Sahni of the University of Florida, winner of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
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Maria Klawe and John White with Stephen W. Keckler, University of Texas at Austin, accepting the Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computing professional
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Maria Klawe and John White congratulate Ruzena Bajcsy of the University of California at Berkeley, winner of the 2003 Distinguished Service Award
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The 2003 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award went to Mark Scott Johnson, a leader in building community among ACM's Special Interest Groups
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AnHai Doan of the University of Illinois accepts the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
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The newest members of the ACM Fellows Program, honoring outstanding ACM members for achievements in CS and IT
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2004 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Champions from St. Petersburg University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics celebrate their first place showing
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2004 ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals winners were recognized at the banquet. From left: John White, Mark Lewin, Microsoft Research (SRC sponsor), Maria Klawe, Michael Piatek (undergraduate category, Duquesne University), Michael Swift (first place, University of Washington), T.J. Giuli (second place, Stanford University), Petros Maniatis (second place, Stanford University), Xinyuan Wang (third place, North Carolina State University), and Ann Sobel (coordinator of the 2004 SRC)
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STORIES
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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League of Women Voters Is Split on Paperless Computer Voting Systems
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New York Times,
June 11, 2004
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ACM Past President Barbara Simons ran for League of Women Voters president on paper-trail platform.
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Undergrad Helps Make Engineering More Congenial for Women
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Currents--UC Santa Cruz,
June 14, 2004
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Female engineering major points to involvement in ACM student chapter, networking, and mentors as keys to success.
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League of Women Voters Rescinds Its Support of Touchscreen Voting Systems
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ContraCosta Times,
June 15, 2004
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Barbara Simons expresses "joy and relief" at League's decision.
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Computer Science Fights Nerd Image
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MPR Future Tense,
June 24, 2004
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New ACM President David Patterson talks on Minnesota Public Radio show about how students perceive Computer Science.
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A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing
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Fortune,
July 8, 2004
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Turing Award winner and Queue editorial board member Alan Kay criticizes development of PCs, Web.
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E-Voting Backup Is Demanded
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Salt Lake Tribune,
July 14, 2004
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Former ACM Pres Barbara Simons speaks out at "Computer Ate My Vote" rally.
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