ACM Advanced Membership Grades
Last updated February, 2012
The Awards Committee of the SIGCSE Board is interested in raising the profile of computing education, and we believe that one way to do this is to have more SIGCSE members identified as Advanced Members of the ACM. There are three advanced membership grades available: Senior, Distinguished, and Fellow. Requirements, due dates, nomination forms and FAQs about each of these grades are available here:
Call for nominations for Advanced Member grades in the ACM.
A very useful reference is an article by Marc Snir & Telle Whitney in the July 2010 CACM:
Advice to members seeking ACM distinction.
Feel free to contact either Amber Settle or Daniel Joyce if you have questions.
Fellow
This is ACM's most prestigious member grade recognizing the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Applications are due annually on September 1. Fellows require five endorsements from current ACM Professional Members and must be nominated by an ACM Professional Member.
SIGCSE members who are ACM Fellows:
| William Richards Adrion | Robert M Aiken | Alan W Biermann | Tracy Camp |
| Robert S Cartwright | Thomas A D'Auria | Nell B. Dale | Jack Davidson |
| Peter J Denning | Gerald L Engel | Dennis J. Frailey | Frank L Friedman |
| David Gries | Vicki L. Hanson | Lance J Hoffman | Richard E Ladner |
| Joyce Currie Little | Dianne Martin | Daniel D McCracken | William B Poucher |
| J Mark Pullen | Eric S Roberts | Barbara G Ryder | Richard Schantz |
| Albert J Turner | Jeffrey D Ullman | Stuart Zweben |
Distinguished Member
This membership grade has three categories: Educator, Engineer, and Scientist. Applications are due annually on August 1. This award level requires at least 15 years of professional experience and the ability to demonstrate that one has had significant accomplishments or impact in the computing field. Distinguished Members can be self-nominating or may be nominated by a current ACM Professional Member.
SIGCSE members with Distinguished grades:
| Joel Adams | Distinguished Educator |
| Mordechai Ben-Ari | Distinguished Educator |
| Martin C Carlisle | Distinguished Educator |
| Lillian (Boots) Cassel | Distinguished Educator |
| Steve Cooper | Distinguished Educator |
| Wanda Dann | Distinguished Educator |
| Marie DesJardins | Distinguished Scientist |
| Suzanne W Dietrich | Distinguished Educator |
| Alan D Fekete | Distinguished Scientist |
| Sally Fincher | Distinguished Scientist |
| Dan Garcia | Distinguished Educator |
| John Impagliazzo | Distinguished Educator |
| Charles F. Kelemen | Distinguished Educator |
| Michael Kölling | Distinguished Educator |
| Barbara Boucher Owens | Distinguished Educator |
| Richard Pattis | Distinguished Educator |
| Ramon C Puigjaner | Distinguished Educator |
| Susan Rodger | Distinguished Educator |
| John Stasko | Distinguished Scientist |
| Pradip K Srimani | Distinguished Scientist |
| David S Touretzky | Distinguished Scientist |
| Henry M Walker | Distinguished Educator |
| Robert A. Walker | Distinguished Scientist |
| Mark Weiss | Distinguished Educator |
Senior Member
ACM members can apply for the first advanced membership grade, Senior Membership, approximately every three months. Senior Membership requires at least 10 years of professional experience, including graduate school, and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership. Senior members are self-nominating, and three letters of recommendation from colleagues are required.
SIGCSE members with Senior grade:
| Joel Adams | David Arnow | Reyyan Ayfer | Douglas Baldwin |
| Valerie Barr | R Daniel Bergeron | Jean Blair | Richard Blumenthal |
| Peter Brusilovsky | Suzanne Buchele | Paul E Buis | Martin C Carlisle |
| Jeffrey C Carver | Michael E. Caspersen | Lillian N Cassel | Vincent A Cicirello |
| Alison Clear | Steve Cooper | Thomas Cortina | Venu G Dasigi |
| Marie DesJardins | John Dooley | J.Philip East | Kurt Eiselt |
| Georgios Eleftherakis | Rommel P Feria | Leslie D Fife | Rudolf Fleischer |
| Timothy Fossum | Joan Francioni | Terrence P. Fries | Oscar N Garcia , PE |
| Edward F Gehringer | Dennis R Goldenson | Jeff Gray | William Grosky |
| Mark Guzdial | Jesse M Heines | David Hemmendinger | Mark A Holliday |
| Ellis Horowitz | Meriel Huggard | John Impagliazzo | Kip Irvine |
| R H James | Jeremy R Johnson | Lawrence G Jones | Daniel T Joyce |
| Jennifer S. Kay | Youry Khmelevsky | Can Kultur | Amruth Kumar |
| Deepak Kumar | Niels Muller Larsen | Cary Laxer | Erik Linstead |
| Antonio M Lopez Jr | Bruce R Maxim | Renee McCauley | John W McCormick |
| Kevin W McCullen | Ciaran McGoldrick | Rebecca Mercuri Ph.D. | Panagiotis Takis Metaxas |
| William Mongan | Freeman L Moore | Patricia A Morreale | Robert W Neufeld |
| Amos Olagunju | Michael Oudshoorn | Scott P Overmyer | Carl Owenby |
| Barbara Boucher Owens | Viera Krnanova Proulx | Rammohan K Ragade | Donna S Reese |
| Martin Reisslein | Stefan A Robila | Guido Roessling | Gary E. Schubert |
| Amber Settle | Clifford A Shaffer | Peter Sommerlad | John Stasko |
| Chris Stephenson | Tammy VanDeGrift | Kam H Vat | Ellen L Walker |
| Henry M Walker | James J Whitmore | Steven A Wolfman | Benjamin Yu |
| Mohamed M Zahran |
