2006 ACM FELLOWS (10 Jan 2007)

ACM has recognized 41 of its members for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology. The new ACM Fellows, from some of the world's leading industries, universities, and research labs, made significant advances that are having lasting effects on the lives of citizens throughout the world.

• Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University)
  For contributions to query processing and data mining.
• Usama Fayyad (Yahoo! Inc.)
  For contributions to machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery.
• Phillip B Gibbons (Intel Corporation)
  For contributions to parallel computing, databases, and sensor networks.
• Laura M Haas (IBM Almaden Research Center)
  For research leadership, and contributions to federated database systems.
• Alon Halevy (Google, Inc.)
  For contributions to data integration and knowledge representation.
• Tamer M. Ozsu (University of Waterloo)
  For contributions to distributed data management and service to the database community.
• Victor D Vianu (University of California, San Diego)
  For contributions to database management systems.
• Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  For contributions to information management and security.
• Stanley B Zdonik (Brown University)
  For contributions to data management and database systems.

You can read the official press release at http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/1_2007/acm_fellows_2006.cfm

For more information on the ACM Fellows program, please visit: http://fellows.acm.org.

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