Ronald Fagin Is Recipient of IEEE Computer Society
W. Wallace McDowell Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 26 March, 2012 – Ronald Fagin, best known for his pioneering work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge, has been selected as the 2012 winner of the prestigious W. Wallace McDowell Award.
Fagin, who won a 2011 IEEE Technical Achievement Award “for pioneering contributions to the theory of rank and score aggregation,” received the McDowell Award this year for making “fundamental and lasting contributions to the theory of databases.”
One of computing's most prestigious individual honors, the W. Wallace McDowell Award has a list of past winners that reads like a who's who of industry giants. They include FORTRAN creator John W. Backus (1967); supercomputer pioneers Seymour Cray (1968), Gene Amdahl (1976), and Ken Kennedy (1995); the architect of IBM's mainframe computer Frederick Brooks (1970); Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore (1978); Donald Knuth, the father of algorithm analysis (1980); microprocessor inventor Federico Faggin (1994); World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee (1996); and Lotus Notes creator and Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie (2000).
Manager of the Foundations of Computer Science group at IBM Almaden Research Center, and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, Fagin has received an IBM Corporate Award, eight IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and two IBM key patent awards.
Fagin co-authored the book “Reasoning about Knowledge,” and has published more than 100 papers and served on more than 30 conference program committees and as program committee chair of four different conferences.
He received his BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College, and his PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Fagin was named an IEEE Fellow for “contributions to finite-model theory and to relational database theory,” an ACM Fellow for “creating the field of finite model theory and for fundamental research in relational database theory and in reasoning about knowledge,” and an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow for “fundamental contributions to computational complexity theory, database theory, and the theory of multi-agent systems.”
He holds a Docteur Honoris Causa commemoration from the University of Paris, and was named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information). He was the winner of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, a lifetime achievement award in databases, for “fundamental contributions to database theory.”
The McDowell Award is given to individuals for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other innovative contributions in the field of computing. The award may be given for a single contribution of great merit or a series of lesser contributions that have had or are expected to have an important influence on the computer field. It consists of a bronze medal and a $2,000 honorarium. For more information, visit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/wallace.
McDowell, who spent decades working for IBM, directed development of the first commercial electronic calculator. He was later responsible for development of major advances, including IBM's card-programmed calculator, magnetic drums and tape units, magnetic core and disc storage, the company’s “700” systems, and the Naval Ordinance Research Calculator.
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Ian F. Akyildiz Is Recipient of McDowell Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 7 March, 2011 – Ian F. Akyildiz, Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the 2011 winner of the prestigious W. Wallace McDowell Award.
The McDowell Award is given to individuals for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other innovative contributions in the field of computing. Akyildiz was recognized “for pioneering contributions to wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols.”
Akyildiz is director of Georgia Tech’s Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory. He has held visiting professorships at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile; Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure Télécommunications in Paris, France; Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona, Spain; and Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
He is the editor-in-chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) as well as the founding editor-in-chief of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier). He is a past editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1996-2001), Kluwer Journal of Cluster Computing (1997-2001), ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems (1995-2002), IEEE Transactions on Computers (1992-1996), and ACM-Springer Wireless Networks (1995-2005).
He was the technical program chair of the Ninth IEEE Computer Communications workshop in 1994, ACM MobiCom '96, IEEE INFOCOM '98, and IEEE ICC 2003. He was the general chair for ACM MobiCom 2002 and co-founded the ACM SenSys Conference.
Akyildiz serves on the advisory board of several research centers, journals, conferences, and publication companies. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in computer engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981, and 1984, respectively.
The award may be given for a single contribution of great merit or a series of lesser contributions that have had or are expected to have an important influence on the computer field. It consists of a bronze medal and a $2,000 honorarium. For more information, visit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/wallace.
McDowell, who spent decades working for IBM, directed development of the first commercial electronic calculator. He was later responsible for development of major advances, including IBM's card-programmed calculator, magnetic drums and tape units, magnetic core and disc storage, the company’s “700” systems, and the Naval Ordinance Research Calculator.
One of computing's most prestigious individual honors, the W. Wallace McDowell Award has a list of past winners that reads like a who's who of industry giants. They include Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore (1978); microprocessor inventor Federico Faggin (1994); World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee (1996); Lotus Notes creator and Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie (2000); supercomputer pioneers Seymour Cray (1968), Gene Amdahl (1976) and Ken Kennedy (1995); and the architect of IBM's mainframe computer Frederick Brooks (1970).
The award will be presented at an awards dinner on Wednesday, 25 May in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jiawei Han, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was the 2009 winner of the prestigious award for his research into data mining, information network analysis, data warehousing, stream mining, spatiotemporal and multimedia data mining, text and Web mining, and software bug mining.
Jiawei holds has received IBM Faculty Awards, an HP Innovation Award, the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2002 International Conference on Data Mining, a 2004 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, and an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2005.
Rice University computer scientist Krishna Palem, also head of the Institute of Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), was winner of the 2008 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his pioneering contributions to the growing field of embedded computing.
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Jiawei Han Recipient of McDowell Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 30 April, 2010 – Jiawei Han, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 2009 winner of the prestigious W. Wallace McDowell Award.
Jiawei has been working on research into data mining, information network analysis, data warehousing, stream mining, spatiotemporal and multimedia data mining, text and Web mining, and software bug mining. With more than 400 conference and journal publications to his credit, Han has chaired or participated in more than 100 international conference program committees.
He previously served on the editorial board for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. He is currently the founding editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD).
Jiawei has received IBM Faculty Awards, an HP Innovation Award, the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2002 International Conference on Data Mining, a 2004 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, and an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2005.
An IEEE and ACM Fellow, Jiawei is currently director of the Information Network Academic Research Center (INARC) supported by the Network Science-Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS-CTA) program of US Army Research Lab. He is author of the textbook “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques” (Morgan Kaufmann).
A bronze medal and $2,000 honorarium accompany the award, which is presented for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest.
McDowell, who spent decades working for IBM, directed development of the first commercial electronic calculator. He was later responsible for development of major advances, including IBM's card-programmed calculator, magnetic drums and tape units, magnetic core and disc storage, the company’s “700” systems, and the Naval Ordinance Research Calculator.
Rice University computer scientist Krishna Palem, also head of the Institute of Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), was winner of the 2008 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his pioneering contributions to the growing field of embedded computing.
One of computing's most prestigious individual honors, the W. Wallace McDowell Award has a list of past winners that reads like a who's who of industry giants. They include Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore (1978); microprocessor inventor Federico Faggin (1994); World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee (1996); Lotus Notes creator and Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie (2000); supercomputer pioneers Seymour Cray (1968), Gene Amdahl (1976) and Ken Kennedy (1995); and the architect of IBM's mainframe computer Frederick Brooks (1970).
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