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Become an Ambassador for ACM!
from ACM Europe Council Chair Fabrizio Gagliardi 
Dear ACM Member,
Our member recruitment program has been in place for nearly a decade. It was recently renamed "Ambassadors for ACM" to reflect
the collaborative nature of members inviting colleagues to join.
Current ACM members are our greatest source of new members, and I'd like you to think about who in your circle of friends
and colleagues would benefit from ACM's many offerings: our extensive online learning program, with more than 4500 courses
and more than 1100 books; essential publications; discounts on ACM conferences; and community building through our local chapters and
special interest groups.
Along with the new name, we've refreshed the referral process and recruitment tips, and new opportunities for prizes,
rewards and bonus gifts are now available. For example, grand prizes for the 2011/2012 year include an Android tablet and a
Nook eBook reader. Learn more about new rules, recruitment tips and tools, as well as rewards and prizes by visiting the
Ambassadors for ACM site.
Won't you consider helping to expand our growing community in Europe by asking a friend (or two!) to join ACM?
Many thanks in advance,
Fabrizio
Fabrizio Gagliardi is Europe, Middle East and Africa Director for External Research, Microsoft Research.
- TOP STORIES
- ACM Europe Council
- New ACM European Council Members: Serdar Tasiran and Mashhuda Glencross
- Awards
- 2011 ACM European Fellows, Distinguished Members Named
- Best Paper Awards at European Conferences
- Distinguished Speakers Program
- Featured ACM European Distinguished Speaker: Opher Etzion
- Conferences and Events
- ASPLOS 2012: Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March 3 – 7, London, UK
- EUROSYS 2012, April 10 - 13, Bern, Switzerland
- ICSE 2012: 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, June 2 - 9, Zurich, Switzerland
- EC 2012: 13th ACM SIGecom Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 4 - 8, Valencia, Spain
- Chapters News
- Featured ACM Student Chapter: Ionian University, Greece
- Student News
- ACM-W Student Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences
- Publications News
- Featured ICPS Conference Proceedings: 12th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '11)
ACM Europe Council
New ACM European Council Members: Serdar Tasiran and Mashhuda Glencross
Serdar Tasiran is assistant professor of computer engineering at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, and director of the
Koç University Research Center for Multicore Software Engineering, a collaboration with Microsoft Research and the
Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He has been a visiting professor with Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington; Silicon Valley
Center, Mountain View, California; and Bangalore, India, and EPFL, Switzerland. He performs research and technique and tool
development for the formal verification of concurrent software systems. More broadly, his research interests cover the
specification, verification, performance estimation and optimization of concurrent systems. He has been a referee for the
Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (JACM) and the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues
in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems. He has received the Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the
Turkish Academy of Sciences and the Career Award from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. He received
a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, and an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
"Turkey has a rapidly increasing number of well-educated, motivated computer engineering professionals and academics," says Serdar.
"Being a member of the Council provides me with a platform from which I can increase awareness of and contribution to the ACM in Turkey."
Serdar Tasiran's ACM Digital Library author page.
Mashhuda Glencross is a lecturer in the Vision, Imaging & Autonomous Systems group at Loughborough University, UK. Her
research focuses on ways in which human perception can be used to create compelling graphics and tactile interfaces. Her work
has spanned a diverse range of areas including computational photography, 3D reconstruction/imaging, visual perception,
real-time/massive-model rendering, collaborative virtual reality, haptic interaction, and physically based modeling.
Mashhuda is also director of research and development at Pismo Software. She helped to establish the
ACM SIGGRAPH University of Manchester Professional Chapter, serving as chair, and also as courses chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH
2009 conference. More recently, she has served on the ACM SIGGRAPH nominations committee and is a key member of the ACM SIGGRAPH
Professional and Student Chapters Committee.
"Serving as a member of the ACM Europe Council is both a privilege and an opportunity to help facilitate international
recognition for the world-class computer science research that originates from Europe," says Mashhuda. "In particular, I would
like to encourage greater participation from European researchers in ACM organizational roles and also see more involvement
from ACM through sponsored activities in Europe. Towards fulfilling these objectives, I am serving on the Chapters subcommittee
and the ECRC [European Federated Computing Research Conference] working group."
Mashhuda Glencross's ACM Digital Library author page.
Awards
2011 ACM European Fellows, Distinguished Members Named
The ACM Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information
technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues
to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves. There were
four European Fellows named in 2011:
- Serge Abiteboul, INRIA Saclay—Île-de-France, France
- Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Peter B. Key, Microsoft Research, UK
- Janos Pach, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) / Renyi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science / Courant Institute, New York University
The Distinguished Member Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and five years of
continuous Professional Membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the
computing field. There were six European Distinguished Member Grade recipients
in 2011:
- Ingemar Cox, University College London, UK
- Martin Dietzfelbinger, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
- Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
- Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
- Michael Kölling, University of Kent, UK
- Kari-Jouko Raiha, University of Tampere, Finland
ACM commends these outstanding Europeans for their contributions.
Best Paper Awards at European Conferences
CIKM 2011: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Best Paper Award: Intent-aware query similarity
Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award: Transferring Topical Knowledge from Auxiliary Long Texts for Short Text Clustering
Best Student Paper Award: Lower bounding term frequency normalization
ASSETS 2011: ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Best Paper Award: Improving Calibration Time and Accuracy for Situation-Specific Models of Color Differentiation
Best Student Paper Award: Blind People and Mobile Touch-based Text-Entry: Acknowledging the Need for Different Flavors
Distinguished Speakers Program
Featured ACM European Distinguished Speaker: Opher Etzion
The Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) is one of ACM's most valued outreach programs,
providing universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and local ACM chapters with direct access to top
technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry.
Opher Etzion is the principal investigator of the proactive computing initiative at the IBM Haifa
Research Lab. He was lead architect of event processing technology at IBM Websphere, and a Senior Manager at the IBM Research
division, where he managed a department that performed one of the pioneering projects that shaped the area of
"event processing." He is also chair of the Event Processing Technical Society, and an adjunct professor
at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Yizrael Valley College. He is a co-author of
Event Processing in Action (with Peter Niblett). Prior to joining IBM in 1997, he was a faculty member and
Founding Head of the Information Systems Engineering department at Technion. He is a senior member of ACM, and has been
general chair and program chair of various conferences such as COOPIS 2000 and the ACM International Conference on Distributed
Event-Based Systems (ACM DEBS 2011). He received a BA degree in Philosophy from
Tel-Aviv University and a PhD degree in Computer Science from Temple University.
"Since I was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Speaker, besides continuing to speak in various places around the globe,
I've taken it upon myself to coach and mentor young people on presenting and speaking," says Opher.
Learn more about Opher Etzion and read abstracts of his lectures on his
DSP speaker information page.
Opher Etzion's ACM Digital Library author page
Conferences and Events
ASPLOS 2012: Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March 3 – 7, London, UK
ASPLOS 2012 is a multidisciplinary conference
for research that spans the boundaries of hardware, computer architecture, compilers, languages, operating systems, networking,
and applications. ASPLOS provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings
in these rapidly changing fields. It has captured some of the major computer systems innovations of the past two decades, such as
RISC and VLIW processors, small and large-scale multiprocessors, clusters and networks-of-workstations, optimizing compilers,
RAID, and network-storage system designs. ASPLOS is co-sponsored by ACM SIGARCH, SIGOPS, and SIGPLAN.
The ACM VEE Conference on Virtual Execution Environments will be co-located with ASPLOS, March 3 to 4.
EUROSYS 2012, April 10 - 13, Bern, Switzerland
EuroSys 2012 focuses on systems research and development: operating systems, database
systems, and real-time systems and middleware for networked, distributed, parallel, or embedded computing systems. EuroSys has
become a premier forum for discussing various issues of systems software research and development, including implications
related to hardware and applications. Following the pattern established by the previous EuroSys conferences, this year's conference
will feature papers on all aspects of computer systems. EuroSys 2012 will also include a number of workshops to allow junior and
senior members of the systems community to explore leading-edge topics and ideas before they are presented at a conference:
Doctoral; Cloud Computing Platforms; Cloud Data Processing; Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility; Multi-core Architectures;
Social Network Systems; System Security; and Transactional Memory. EuroSys 2012 is organized by EuroSys, the European Chapter
of SIGOPS, and sponsored by ACM SIGOPS, the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems.
ICSE 2012: 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, June 2 - 9, Zurich, Switzerland
ICSE 2012 takes as its theme "Sustainable Software for a Sustainable World."
The conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations,
trends, experiences and issues in the field of software engineering. ICSE will host an
ACM Student Research Competition,
where students can present their research results to conference attendees and compete for prizes. A "New Ideas and Emerging
Results" track will give presenters an opportunity to receive early feedback on novel research ideas and promising work
that has not yet been fully evaluated. Scheduled keynote speakers are Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and
Co-Chair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York; Frank-Dieter Clesle, Vice President of On-Demand Content as a
Service Infrastructure at SAP Sustainability Lab, Markdorf, Germany; and Jeff Kramer, Senior Dean at Imperial College London.
EC 2012: 13th ACM SIGecom Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 4 - 8, Valencia, Spain
EC 2012 is the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, systems, and
applications for electronic commerce. The natural focus of the conference is on computer science issues, but the conference is
interdisciplinary in nature, including research in economics and research related to theory and foundations; artificial intelligence;
and experimentaland experiential research. Paper submissions are due
February 6; workshop and tutorial proposals are due February 13 (for
workshops send proposals to ec12-workshops-chair@acm.org and for
tutorials send proposals to ec12-tutorial-chair@acm.org).
Chapters News
Featured ACM Student Chapter: Ionian University, Greece
In this issue we feature the Ionian University ACM Student Chapter
located in Corfu, Greece. The chapter was chartered in spring 2011, and has organized a conference, a workshop and a summer school. The
Conference on Informatics in Education focused on combining innovations in educational
technologies with advanced learning procedures, techniques, tools and alternative processes. The workshop,
Schools First, Information Technology Second, addressed
coping with novel ICT in Greek schools, design of interactive instructional tools, learning through game playing, and other
educational topics. The summer School on Open and Usable Learning (SOUL),
coming July 8 to July 15, provides a learning environment where participants will have opportunities to develop
their research skills; increase their knowledge base; collaborate with others in their own and complementary research areas;
have access to experts in the field; discuss their own work; and publish the outcome of their research
in a special issue of an established journal. The application
deadline for this summer school is March 1.
ACM Student Chapters in Europe
ACM Professional Chapters in Europe
Student News
ACM-W Student Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences
The ACM Women's Council (ACM-W), with funding from Wipro Technologies, provides support for
women undergraduate or graduate students in computer science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences.
The student does not have to present a paper at the conference she attends. High school students will also be considered for
conference support. As of 2011, 20 ACM-W/Wipro scholarships are funded annually: 10 scholarships of up to $600 will be
awarded for intra-continental conference travel, and 10 scholarships of up to $1,200 will be awarded for intercontinental
conference travel. ACM-W encourages the student's home department to match the scholarship award and recognize the student's
achievement locally within her department. In addition, if the award is for attendance at one of several ACM Special Interest
Group conferences (SIGACCESS, SIGACT, SIGARCH, SIGCOMM, SIGCSE, SIGDA, SIGECOM, SIGSOFT, SIGGRAPH, SIGITE, SIGOPS, and SIGPLAN),
the SIG will provide complementary conference registration and a mentor during the conference. Applications are evaluated in
six groups each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences. For application form, notification dates
and more information, please visit the scholarships page.
Publications News
Featured ICPS Conference Proceedings: 12th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '11)
ICPS is ACM's International Conference Proceedings Series, which enables conferences and workshops to publish their proceedings
in ACM's Digital Library, providing maximum dissemination of the material through electronic channels. In this issue we are
featuring the 12th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '11),
organized by the ACM Bulgarian Chapter in association with the Bulgarian Academic Society of Computer Systems and Information
Technologies, the Bulgarian Union of Automation and Informatics, and the European Commission: European Thematic Network for
Teaching, Research and Innovations in Computing Education (ETN TRICE). This year, a record number of papers (more than 185)
were submitted to the program Committee, which consisted of more than 120 experts in computing from around the world.
See the full list of conferences in the ACM ICPS Series.
Read ACM in the News articles.
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