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 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:

Mordechai Ben-Ari Distinguished Educator
Martin C Carlisle Distinguished Educator
Marie DesJardins Distinguished Scientist
Suzanne W Dietrich Distinguished Educator
Alan D Fekete Distinguished Scientist
Sally Fincher Distinguished Scientist
John Impagliazzo Distinguished Educator
Charles F. Kelemen Distinguished Educator
Michael Kölling 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:

Valerie Barr R Daniel Bergeron Jean Blair Peter Brusilovsky
Joel Adams Reyyan Ayfer Valerie Barr R Daniel Bergeron
Jean Blair Peter Brusilovsky Suzanne Buchele 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 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 William Grosky
Mark Guzdial Jesse M Heines David Hemmendinger Mark A Holliday
Ellis Horowitz John Impagliazzo Kip Irvine R H James
Jeremy R Johnson Lawrence G Jones Daniel T Joyce Youry Khmelevsky
Amruth Kumar Deepak Kumar Niels Muller Larsen Cary Laxer
Erik Linstead Antonio M Lopez Jr Renee Mccauley John W McCormick
Kevin W Mccullen Rebecca Mercuri Ph.D. Panagiotis Takis Metaxas Freeman L Moore
Patricia A Morreale 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