ACM Advanced Membership Grades
Last updated December, 2022
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 at the ACM Awards page.
A very useful reference is an article by Marc Snir & Telle Whitney in the July 2010 CACM: Advice to members seeking ACM distinction.
ACM 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 at the beginning of September. Fellows require five endorsements from current ACM Professional Members and must be nominated by an ACM Professional Member.
SIGCSE members who are ACM Fellows
Judith Gal-Ezer | Susanne E Hambrusch | Paul Resnick |
William Richards Adrion | Robert M Aiken | Ronald M Baeker |
Tracy Camp | Robert S Cartwright | Jack Davidson |
Peter J Denning | Dennis J. Frailey | Frank L Friedman |
Juan E. Gilbert | Mark Guzdial | Richard E. Ladner |
Joyce Currie Little | Michael Littman | Dianne Martin |
William B Poucher | John Mark Pullen | Eric S Roberts |
Bhavani Thuraisingham | Allen Tucker | Albert J Turner |
Stuart Zweben |
ACM Distinguished Member
This membership grade recognizes members with exemplary achievements that have advanced the science, engineering and education of computing. Applications are due annually on August 1.
This award level requires at least 15 years of professional experience and the ability to demonstrate that the member has had significant accomplishments or impact in the computing field. Distinguished Members must be nominated by a current ACM Professional Member.
SIGCSE members: Distinguished Educator status
Tony Clear | Quintin Cutts | Diana Franklin |
Margaret Hamilton | Guido Rößling | Alison Clear |
Kathi Fisler | Andrew Luxton-Reilly | Jane Chu Prey |
Ingrid Russell | Joel Adams | Christine Alvarado |
Owen Astrachan | Tim Bell | Mordechai Ben-Ari |
Judith Bishop | Martin C Carlisle | Michael E. Caspersen |
Lillian (Boots) Cassel | Michael J Clancy | Steve Cooper |
Michelle Craig | Suzanne W Dietrich | Stephen H Edwards |
Dan Garcia | Jeff Gray | Elizabeth K Hawthorne |
John Impagliazzo | Doug Jacobson | Charles F. Kelemen |
Michael Kolling | Barbara Boucher Owens | Richard Pattis |
Ramon C Puigjaner | Susan Rodger | Clifford A Shaffer |
Henry M Walker | Kevin D Wayne | Mark Weiss |
Tiffany Barnes | Barb Ericson | Deepak Kumar |
Gloria Childress Townsend |
SIGCSE members: Distinguished Scientist status
Antonija Mitrovic | Leo Porter | Mats Daniels |
Marie DesJardins | Laura Dillon | Alan D Fekete |
Sally Fincher | Armando Fox | Lane A Hemaspaandra |
Ethan L Miller | Marian Petre | Sushil K Prasad |
David S Touretzky | Robert A. Walker | Panagiotis Papadimitratos |
SIGCSE members: Distinguished Member status
Valerie Barr | Andrew B. Begel | Kim B Bruce |
Gail Chapman | Thomas Cortina | James H. Cross II |
Andrea Danyluk | Cay S. Horstmann | Matt Huenerfauth |
Renee McCauley | Andrew McGettrick | Manuel Pérez-Quiñones |
Mehran Sahami | Amber Settle | Judithe Sheard |
Lynn Andrea Stein | Chris Stephenson | Jodi L Tims |
Andre van der Hoek | Charles Weems |
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: ACM Senior Member status
Rajeev Agrawal | Vicki Almstrum | Barbara Anthony |
David Arnow | Reyyan Ayfer | Douglas Baldwin |
Valerie Barr | Rebecca A Bates | Joseph A Bergin |
Cindy Bethel | Benjamin Bishop | Jean Blair |
Richard Blumenthal | Erik Brunvand | Peter Brusilovsky |
Suzanne Buchele | Jennifer Campbell | Jeffrey C Carver |
Vincent A Cicirello | John Cigas | Alison Clear |
Thomas Cortina | Venu G Dasigi | Janet Davis |
Karen Davis | Susan Dean | Adrienne Decker |
John Dooley | John P Dougherty | J.Philip East |
Ali Ebnenasir | Deger Erdil | Barbara Jane Ericson |
Vladimir Estivill-Castro | Rudolf Fleischer | Yetunde Folajimi |
Timothy Fossum | Edward F Gehringer | Paul V. Gestwicki |
Don Goelman | Timothy A Gonsalves | Rebecca Grasser |
James Heliotis | Daryl Hepting | Mark A Holliday |
Ellis Horowitz | Meriel Huggard | Hongbo Jiang |
Jeremy R Johnson | Lawrence G Jones | Daniel T Joyce |
Jennifer S. Kay | Carsten Kleiner | Vladik Kreinovich |
Can Kultur | Deepak Kumar | Clif Kussmaul |
David Largent | Niels Muller Larsen | Cary Laxer |
Robert R. Lewis | Fuhua (Oscar) Lin | Erik Linstead |
Vicente Ferreira de Lucena | David Luginbuhl | Roman Lysecky |
Cynthia R Marling | Bruce R Maxim | Ciaran Mc Goldrick |
John W McCormick | Kevin W McCullen | Monica McGill |
James McGuffee | James Miller | Antonija Mitrovic |
William Mongan | Freeman L Moore | Michael O Moorman |
Patricia A Morreale | Todd Neller | Amos Olagunju |
Joann Ordille | Michael Oudshoorn | Panagiotis Papadimitratos |
Abelardo Pardo | Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones | Jeffrey Popyack |
Leo Porter | Viera Krnanova Proulx | Samuel A. Rebelsky |
Donna S Reese | Stefan A Robila | Guido Roessling |
Anthony S Ruocco | Amber Settle | Kelly Shaw |
Richard E Smith | Peter Sommerlad | Daniel R. Tauritz |
Eli Tilevich | Jodi Tims | Kim Tracy |
Paul Tymann | Jan Vahrenhold | Michael Van Hilst |
Troy Vasiga | Kam H Vat | J. Angel Velazquez-Iturbide |
Ellen L Walker | Jerod Weinman | James Whitmore |
Gunnar Wolf | Steven A Wolfman | Xiao-Chun Yang |
Mohamed M Zahran |
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