Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Five Indian-Americans Named 2011 ACM Fellows

Ramesh Govindan, USC

NEW YORK, NY -- Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) has recognized five Indian-Americans among forty-six of its members for their contributions to computing that have provided fundamental knowledge to the computing field and generated multiple technology advances in industry, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and education.

The 2011 ACM Fellows, from the world’s leading universities, corporations, and research labs, are helping to drive the innovations that will sustain competitiveness in the digital age.

Amit Singhal, Google

Named as ACM Fellows were Divyakant Agrawal of the University of California at Santa Barbara, for contributions to distributed data management systems; Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California, contributions to computer networking; Shubhendu Mukherjee, Cavium Networks, for contributions to modeling and design of high-performance and soft-error-tolerant microarchitectures; Amit Singhal, Google, Inc., for contributions to search and information retrieval; and Divesh Srivastava, AT&T, for contributions to query processing in data management systems.

ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges.

“These women and men, who are some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in computer science and engineering, are changing how the world lives and works,” said ACM President Alain Chesnais. “They have mastered the tools of computing and computer science to address the many significant challenges that confront populations across the globe. These international luminaries are responsible for solutions that are transforming our society for the better—in healthcare, communications, cybersecurity, robotics, commerce, industry, and entertainment.”

ACM will formally recognize the 2011 Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet on June 16, 2012 in San Francisco, CA.

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