ACM SIG Chairs Meeting
SIG Awards Report
1997-08-23
Mark Scott Johnson, ACM SIG Chairs' Liaison with the ACM Awards Committee

• ACM Awards Committee (http://www.acm.org/awards/)
• Restructuring of committee
• Moratorium on "named" awards
• Endowments
• New SIG Awards
• SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award (outstanding contribution to computer architecture)
• SIGLINK/SIGIR Vannevar Bush Award
• SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

 
• Other Recent Achievements
• SIG awards now listed in annual ACM Awards brochure
• SDF matching contributions to the endownment for the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (other than $10K from SIGACT and SIGMOD): $6K from SIGDA and SIGPLAN
• Recommendations
• Nominate candidates for ACM awards (were due 1997-08-01).
• Establish SIG awards.
• Endow SIG awards (e.g., SIGACT, SIGARCH, and SIGGRAPH).
• Contribute to the endowment of existing ACM awards.
• Discussion of ACM Fellows Program
• S. Rao Kosaraju, Current Chair
• Frances E. Allen, Immediate Past Chair