{"73356":{"#nid":"73356","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Georgia Tech Professors Named ACM Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the oldest and largest society for computing and technology professionals worldwide, has recognized two Georgia Tech professors for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKrishna V. Palem\u003C\/strong\u003E, joint professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the College of Computing and the founding Director of the Center for Research in Embedded Systems \u0026amp; Technology (CREST) (1999-2005), was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to compiler optimization and embedded computing. He has worked with and led efforts internationally in the area of embedded systems and their compiler optimizations, having founded one of the earliest laboratories for research in academia dedicated to this field in 1994 \u0022the Real-time Compilation Technologies and Instruction Level Parallelism (ReaCTILP) laboratory at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, where he was a faculty member. The work pursued there led to the widely used TRIMARAN system co-developed with the CAR group of HP-Labs and the IMPACT project of the University of Illinois. From 1986 to 1994, he was a member of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. As part of his research and while at Georgia Tech, Palem laid the foundations of architecture assembly which the prestigious Analysts\u0027 Choice Awards recognized by nominating it as one of the outstanding technologies of 2002. More recently, he has been innovating a novel technology entitled Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS) for enabling \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news-room\/release.php?id=514\u0022\u003Eultra low-energy embedded computing\u003C\/a\u003E. He was a Schonbrunn visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he was recognized for excellence in teaching, and an invited professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Palem was instrumental in helping found the first thematic program in Embedded and Hybrid Systems administered by Singapore\u0027s premier funding agency, ASTAR, and chairs its advisory body in this area. He is a fellow of the IEEE.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVijay Vazirani\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the College of Computing, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to optimization and approximation algorithms. Dr. Vazirani is a leading researcher in algorithm design, and more generally, in the theory of computing. Throughout his research career, he has demonstrated a consistent ability to obtain novel algorithmic ideas, frequently of substantial mathematical depth, which while solving the problem at hand, also lay the groundwork for future contributions by others. Vazirani joined Georgia Tech in 1995. His work on approximation algorithms, championing the primal-dual schema, which he applied to network design, facility location, and web searching and clustering, helped determine the direction of that field in the 1990\u0027s, culminating in his definitive book on the subject, published in 2001 and translated into several languages. More recently, with his brother, Umesh Vazirani, professor at U.C. Berkeley, and his doctoral students, Aranyak Mehta and Amin Saberi, he has gone back to his earlier seminal contributions to the classical maximum matching problem to develop algorithms for optimizing ad auctions on the web, an entirely new application with large commercial implications for search engine companies such as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news-room\/release.php?id=568\u0022\u003EGoogle, Yahoo and MSN\u003C\/a\u003E. His recent work in the nascent area of algorithmic game theory and market equilibria, which attempts to address economic\/computational issues arising from the Internet, represents another example of the creation of a wholly new area. He is currently involved in producing, together with three other prominent researchers, an edited volume that will consolidate progress made in this area over the last five years and also help set the tone of research for the next few years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new ACM Fellows, from some of the world\u0027s leading industries, research labs and universities, have made significant advances that are having lasting effects on the lives of citizens throughout the world. This year ACM selected 34 of its members as ACM Fellows.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral universities had multiple winners, including Georgia Tech, Berkeley, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, Stanford, Washington and Wisconsin, with achievements in a variety of fields. Among the technology areas cited were: verifiable voting systems; software reliability and security; active and semi-structured database systems; high performance discrete-event simulation; theory and computing infrastructure for real time computing systems; shared-memory multiprocessing; compiler construction, programming languages, interactive programming environments, and network architecture, protocols and algorithms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWithin the corporate sector, Intel Corporation garnered two Fellows, with achievements recognized in mobile and ubiquitous systems, and high performance processors and multimedia architectures. AT\u0026amp;T Labs also had two Fellows, whose contributions were in algorithms and data structures, and the theory of e-commerce and market-based, decentralized computation. Other corporate research facilities with 2005 Fellows were Microsoft Research; IBM Almaden Research Center; and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Their contributions included database query processing; application of logic in computer science; and packet processing and traffic management algorithms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These individuals deserve our acclaim for their dedication, creativity, and success in pursuing productive careers in information technology,\u0022 said ACM President David Patterson. \u0022By seizing these opportunities, they demonstrate the astonishing potential for innovation in the computing discipline, and the broad-based, profound and enduring impacts of their achievements for the way we live and work in the 21st Century. On a personal note, I am pleased that I\u0027ve known and collaborated with many of these new fellows for several years.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EACM will formally recognize the new Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet on May 20, 2006, in San Francisco, CA. Additional information about the ACM 2005 Fellows, the awards event, as well as previous ACM Fellows and award winners is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acm.org\/awards\/\u0022\u003Ewww.acm.org\/awards\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2005 ACM Fellows\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThomas E. Anderson, University of Washington\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDines Bj\u00c7\u00bfrner, Technical University of Denmark\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStephen R. Bourne, El Dorado Ventures\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRodney Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSurajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKeith D. Cooper, Rice University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDavid L. Dill, Stanford University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChristophe Diot, Thomson Paris Research Lab\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichel Dubois, University of Southern California\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael J. Franklin, University of California, Berkeley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOphir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRobert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMaurice Herlihy, Brown University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPhokion G. Kolaitis, IBM Almaden Research Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVipin Kumar, University of Minnesota\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nT.V. Lakshman, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBrad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDavid M. Nicol, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crest.gatech.edu\/palembioetc\/bio2004.pdf\u0022\u003EKrishna Palem, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThomas Reps, University of Wisconsin, Madison\/GrammaTech, Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLui Sha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMikkel Thorup, AT\u0026amp;T Labs - Research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEli Upfal, Brown University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUmesh Vazirani, University of California, Berkeley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/vazirani.html\u0022\u003EVijay V. Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRoy Want, Intel Corporation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUri C. Weiser, Intel Corporation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDaniel S. Weld, University of Washington\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael P. Wellman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJennifer Widom, Stanford University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWalter Willinger, AT\u0026amp;T Labs - Research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDavid A. Wood, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ACM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world\u0027s computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field\u0027s challenges. ACM strengthens the profession\u0027s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the ACM Fellows Program \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInitiated in 1993, the Fellows program celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Palem and Vazirani recognized for contributions to Computing and IT"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Association for Computing Machinery, the oldest and largest society for computing and technology professionals worldwide, has recognized two Georgia Tech professors for their contributions to computing and information technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Palem and Vazirani selected for contributions to CS"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2006-01-11 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:23","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73357":{"id":"73357","type":"image","title":"Dr. Krishna Palem","body":null,"created":"1449178002","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:42","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36"},"73358":{"id":"73358","type":"image","title":"Dr. Vijay Vazirani","body":null,"created":"1449178002","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:42","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36"}},"media_ids":["73357","73358"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/feb2005\/tc2005024_2426_tc024.htm","title":"PCMOS and Moore\\\u0027s Law"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.crest.gatech.edu\/palembioetc\/bio2004.pdf","title":"Palem Bio"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/vazirani.html","title":"Vazirani Faculty Page"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/","title":"ACM"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news-room\/release.php?id=568","title":"Google Advertising release"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}