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Francine Berman Wins Kennedy Award<br />
Francine Berman<br />
was one of<br />
two founding<br />
principal<br />
investigators<br />
on the National<br />
Science<br />
Foundation’s TeraGrid Project.<br />
rancine Berman, vice<br />
president for research at<br />
Rensselaer Polytechnic<br />
Institute, recently received<br />
the IEEE Computer Society’s Ken<br />
Kennedy Award for outstanding<br />
contributions to programmability<br />
or productivity in high-performance<br />
<strong>computing</strong>. She is a pioneer in grid<br />
<strong>computing</strong> and a leading advocate<br />
for the development of a national<br />
cyberinfrastructure for the access,<br />
use, stewardship, and preservation<br />
of digital data. Berman’s work has<br />
had a major impact on the direction<br />
of computational science and<br />
the cyberinfrastructure. Her citation<br />
reads “For her influential leadership<br />
in the design, development and<br />
deployment of national-scale cyber<br />
infrastructure, her inspiring work<br />
as a teacher and mentor, and her<br />
exemplary service to the high-<br />
performance community.”<br />
Berman is co-chair of the Blue<br />
Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable<br />
Digital Preservation and Access,<br />
an international group focusing<br />
on the economic sustainability of<br />
digital information that must be<br />
accessed and preserved for many<br />
decades.<br />
In 2001, Berman became director<br />
of both the San Diego Supercomputer<br />
Center and the National Partnership<br />
for Advanced Computational Infrastructure,<br />
a consortium of more than<br />
40 national and international partners<br />
who worked together to create a<br />
comprehensive national <strong>computing</strong><br />
infrastructure.<br />
Berman is a founding member and<br />
co-chair of the Computing Research<br />
Association’s Committee on the Status<br />
of Women in Computing Research<br />
and currently serves on the Anita<br />
Borg Institute for Women and Technology<br />
Board of Trustees.<br />
Before moving to RPI, Berman<br />
held the High Performance Computing<br />
Endowed Chair in the<br />
Jacobs School of Engineering at<br />
the University of California, San<br />
Diego. In 2000, she was named an<br />
ACM Fellow for pioneering work in<br />
application scheduling for parallel<br />
distributed <strong>computing</strong>. Berman<br />
received a BA in mathematics from<br />
the University of California, Los<br />
Angeles, and an MA and PhD in<br />
Top Educators Honored<br />
he IEEE Computer Society<br />
sponsors an active<br />
and prestigious awards<br />
program as part of its<br />
mission to promote the free exchange<br />
of ideas among computer professionals<br />
around the world and to recognize<br />
its members for their outstanding<br />
accomplishments. Several noted<br />
educators recently received two<br />
Computer Society awards that honor<br />
achievement in education.<br />
COMPUTER SCIENCE<br />
& ENGINEERING<br />
UNDERGRADUATE<br />
TEACHING AWARD<br />
The IEEE Computer Society<br />
Computer Science & Engineering<br />
Undergraduate Teaching Award is<br />
presented each year for outstanding<br />
contributions to undergraduate education<br />
through teaching and service,<br />
for helping to maintain interest in<br />
the field, and for making a statement<br />
mathematics from the University<br />
of Washington.<br />
Ken Kennedy Award<br />
The IEEE Computer Society Ken<br />
Kennedy Award was established<br />
in memory of the founder of Rice<br />
University’s nationally ranked computer<br />
science program and one of<br />
the world’s foremost experts on<br />
high-performance <strong>computing</strong>. A certificate<br />
and $5,000 honorarium are<br />
awarded jointly by the ACM and the<br />
Computer Society for outstanding<br />
contributions to programmability<br />
or productivity in high-performance<br />
<strong>computing</strong> together with significant<br />
community service or mentoring<br />
contributions.<br />
about the importance with which<br />
the Society views undergraduate<br />
education.<br />
Judy Robertson<br />
Judy Robertson of Heriot-Watt University,<br />
the 2009 award winner, was<br />
honored “for outstanding contributions<br />
to the undergraduate education<br />
through teaching and the innovative<br />
use of pioneering technologies in<br />
teaching.” Robertson is the principal<br />
investigator of a grant funded by the<br />
UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences<br />
Research Council that supports<br />
high school teachers who use gamemaking<br />
projects with their students.<br />
She received a BS and PhD in computer<br />
science and artificial intelligence<br />
from the University of Edinburgh.<br />
Elizabeth Burd<br />
Elizabeth Burd of Durham University,<br />
the 2008 winner, was recognized<br />
“for outstanding contributions to<br />
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