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NEW YORK, NY, December 4, 2014—ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has designated 49 scientists, engineers and educators as Distinguished Members for their individual contributions and their singular impacts on the vital field of computing. Their achievements have had a significant influence on the social, economic and cultural areas of daily lives all over the world. The 2014 Distinguished Members are from universities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, India, the United Kingdom and North America, and from leading international corporations and research institutions.

ACM President Alexander Wolf hailed these ACM members as "drivers of the advances and inventions that are propelling the information revolution in new directions. Their creativity and commitment to their craft ensures that we will benefit as a society in the digital age." He added that these innovators "demonstrate the advantages of ACM membership, which empowers and inspires a bold vision for advancing computing and the computing community."

The ACM Distinguished Member program can recognize the top 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field. ACM's current worldwide membership exceeds 100,000.

Eighty percent of the 2014 recipients are from leading international academic institutions around the world. The rest represent prominent corporate and national research laboratories from North America, Europe, India and Japan. Their achievements in critical computing areas include innovative instruction and curriculum design, systems design and architecture, critical systems security, Internet structure and security, high performance computing, human-computer interaction, programming languages, mobile and wireless networks, database research and management, and software engineering.

For more information about the selection criteria and the 2014 Distinguished Members, click on http://awards.acm.org/distinguished_member/.

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Educators:

Judith Bishop Microsoft Research					Stephen Hilary Edwards Virginia Tech
Jeffrey Gray University of Alabama					Mark J. Guzdial Georgia Institute of Technology
Kevin Wayne Princeton University

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Engineers:

Jose Nelson Amaral   University of Alberta

Sreeranga P. Rajan Fujitsu Laboratories of America

The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Scientists:

Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis Johannes Kepler University Linz		David R. Kaeli Northeastern University
Paul Barford University of Wisconsin		Li Erran Li Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Clark Barrett New York University		Xiang-Yang Li Illinois Institute of Technology
Patrick Baudisch Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam		Jason Xiaowen Liu Florida International University
Valeria Bertacco University of Michigan		Dmitri Loguinov Texas A&M University
Martin Burtscher Texas State University		Gabriel Loh AMD Research
Danny Z. Chen University of Notre Dame		Robyn Lutz Iowa State University
Jianer Chen Texas A&M University		Tamiya Onodera IBM Research–Tokyo
Ed H. Chi Google Inc.		Manish Parashar Rutgers University
Allison Druin University of Maryland		Nitendra Rajput IBM Research, India
Matthew Flatt University of Utah		Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University
Silvia Giordano University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)		Binoy Ravindran Virginia Tech
Ganesh L. Gopalakrishnan University of Utah		Timothy Peter Sherwood University of California, Santa Barbara
Marco Gruteser Rutgers University		Rajeev Shorey TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati,USA/Bangalore, India
Lynda Hardman CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)		Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Simon Harper University of Manchester		Mike Spreitzer IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
Ahmed Helmy University of Florida		Biplav Srivastava IBM Research, India
Yiwei Thomas Hou Virginia Tech		Miroslav N. Velev Aries Design Automation, LLC
Kristina Höök Mobile Life, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Sweden		Duncan Moore "Hank" Walker Texas A&M University
Ihab Francis Ilyas University of Waterloo		Hui Xiong Rutgers University
Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin		Lenore D. Zuck University of Illinois at Chicago

About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, 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. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s 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.

About the ACM Recognition Program
The ACM Fellows program, initiated in 1993, 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 ACM Distinguished Member program, initiated in 2006, recognizes those members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. The ACM Senior Member program, also initiated in 2006, includes members with at least 10 years of professional experience who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers through technical leadership, technical contributions and professional contributions. The new ACM Fellows, Distinguished Members, and Senior Members join a list of eminent colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.