Carnegie Mellon, IBM, AT&T and Microsoft among others whose computing experts are recognized
Google led the way with four of its employees elected ACM Fellows this week in recognition of their contributions to computing and computer science. Overall, 41 membes of the Association of Computing Machinery were named fellows.
“These men and women have made advances in technology and contributions to the computing community that are meeting the dynamic demands of the 21st century,” said ACM President Alain Chesnais. “Their ability to think critically and solve problems creatively is enabling great advances on an international scale. The selection of this year’s Fellows reflects broad international representation of the highest achievements in computing, which are advancing the quality of life throughout society.”
Microsoft, IBM, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Texas at Austin were among other outfits that claimed more than one fellow. The ACM Fellows are accomplished in areas such as fault-tolerant distributed computing, network analysis and virtual machines.
Google’s ACM Fellows — Luiz Barroso, Dick Lyon, Muthu Muthukrishnan and Fernando Pereira — focus on areas such as multicore computer, the optical mouse and ad auctions. Google crowed about its employees’ achievements in a blog posting.
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