ACM Frances E. Allen Award

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Allen Award</h2> <p>Presented biennially to an individual who has exemplified excellence and/or innovation in mentoring with particular attention to recognition of individuals who have shown outstanding leadership in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing.The award is presented at the ACM Award Banquet and is accompanied by a prize of $25,000 to the awardee, and an additional $10,000 cash contribution to an approved charity of the awardee’s choice. Financial Support is provided by Microsoft Research.</p> <p> </p></div> </div> </div> <div> <h2> Recent ACM Frances E. Allen Award News</h2> <div class="awards-winners__related-content"> <h3> Background</h3> <div class="awards-winners__related-content-body"> <p><a href="https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/martonosi_4125274" target="_blank">Margaret Martonosi</a> is the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She also recently served a four-year term as the National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director leading the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).</p> <p>Martonosi earned MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.</p> <p>Her many honors include the ACM-IEEE-CS Eckert-Mauchly Award, the Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, Princeton's Graduate Mentoring Award, as well as numerous Test-of-Time and Best Paper Awards. Martonosi is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.<span id="cke_bm_1086C" style="display: none;"> </span> She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.</p></div> </div> <div class="awards-winners__related-content"> <h3> 2023 ACM Fran Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring</h3> <div class="awards-winners__related-content-body"> <div class="video-wrapper" style="display: block;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-cookieconsent="ignore" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xjLP5azLIQA?si=AjY0Z2nLHrTNzzEq" width="560"></iframe></div> <div style="padding-top: 38px;"> <p>ACM named <a href="https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/martonosi_4125274" target="_blank">Margaret Martonosi</a> the recipient of the ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring. Martonosi is recognized for outstanding and far-reaching mentoring at Princeton University, in computer architecture, and to the broader computer science community. Martonosi, the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, is a leader in the design, modelling, and verification of power efficient computer architecture.</p> <p>The ACM Frances E. Allen Award is presented biennially to an individual who has exemplified excellence and/or innovation in mentoring, with particular attention to recognition of individuals who have shown outstanding leadership in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. The award is accompanied by a prize of $25,000 to the awardee and an additional $10,000 cash contribution to an approved charity of the awardee’s choice. Financial support is provided by Microsoft Research.</p> <p><strong><u>Mentoring Contributions</u></strong><br /> Martonosi instituted the Discipline Specific Workshops program—an initiative of what was then the CRA-W sub-committee of the Computer Research Association and the Coalition to Diversify Computing—with the goal of increasing participation of women and members of underrepresented groups in computing by fostering professional networking within a specific computing research area.</p> <p>Those attending these workshops develop professional networks with other women in their field and gain vital career guidance from successful senior role models. Martonosi and her collaborators in this work planned the workshops to be co-located with major conferences related to each specific sub-field. To date, more than 30 workshops have helped thousands of students build their collaboration networks. For example, several of the students have co-authored papers with senior researchers and peer colleagues that they met at the workshops.</p> <p>At Princeton, Martonosi has advised 36 PhD students who have gone on to successful careers. In addition to her work with doctoral students, she has been recognized as a dedicated and extremely effective mentor for women and minority undergraduate and graduate students. Since 1995, she has supervised the undergraduate research of many students, including hosting undergraduate women from other colleges and universities such as Columbia, Pomona College, Georgia Tech, Hiram College, Duke, and Mt. Holyoke College to come work with her as summer research interns at Princeton.</p> <p><strong><u>Research Contributions<span id="cke_bm_1279C" style="display: none;"> </span></u></strong><br /> Themes in Martonosi’s work include combining theoretical underpinnings and novel algorithms with simple hardware ideas and a detailed understanding of workload behavior. Her techniques span hardware and software as well as theory and practice to produce high-impact, long-lasting results from important problems.</p> <p>Martonosi’s research has made myriad contributions to power-aware architecture. Her early research on narrow bit-width operands cut arithmetic energy requirements in half by exploiting common data value patterns. This work was patented and licensed to Intel. Martonosi’s research in power-awareness originally focused on general-purpose computer architecture. She later broadened her scope to energy issues in mobile sensor networks where energy dictates system lifetime and success.</p> <p>Her ZebraNet Wildlife Tracking Project established the field of mobile sensor networks. Covering large tracking areas (up to hundreds of miles) with no installed infrastructure using traditional protocols would have required very high-power, long-range radios. In contrast, ZebraNet developed the first energy-efficient protocols for opportunistic routing using low-power, short-range data transfers. The project comprehensively addressed hardware design, energy adaptation, communication protocols, and system software. ZebraNet was deployed twice in Kenya. It collected thousands of data points on Plains Zebras, provided biologists with never-before-seen animal behavior data, and established the utility of mobile sensor networks for many problems that are now adapted broadly in sensors and mobile devices.</p> <p>Martonosi will be formally presented with the ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring at the annual ACM Awards Banquet, which will be held this year on Saturday, June 22 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.</p> </div></div> </div> <div class="awards-winners__related-content"> <h3> ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring</h3> <div class="awards-winners__related-content-body"> <div class="video-wrapper" style="display: block;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-cookieconsent="ignore" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WuftFOnu1nA" width="560"></iframe></div> <div style="padding-top: 38px;"> <p>ACM named <a href="/award_winners/brodley_0736905" target="_blank"><strong>Carla E. Brodley</strong></a> the recipient of the inaugural ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring. Brodley is recognized for significant personal mentorship and leadership in creating systemic programs that have increased diversity in computer science by creating mentoring opportunities for thousands at Northeastern and other universities across the United States.</p> <p>An internationally recognized leader in the fields of machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence, Brodley has shown a deep commitment to mentoring and increasing diversity in computer science throughout her academic career. She has worked to develop and disseminate data-driven mentoring practices to make computer science more diverse, inclusive, and equitable in a sustainable and systemic way.</p> <p>Brodley’s efforts have been remarkably successful. For example, while Dean of Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Science from 2014 – 2021 enrollments grew from 2,125 students to 6,169. The total enrollment of undergraduate women grew from 19% to 32% (the national average is 21.5 %) and the enrollment of female MS students increased from 33% to 42% (the national average is 25.7 %). The representation of students from races and ethnicities historically marginalized in tech increased from 10% to 19%. These increases are attributed to several academic innovations Brodley championed including developing 30 interdisciplinary undergraduate computing majors, as well as the “Align MS in CS” which is a master’s in computing for individuals with undergraduate degrees in any field. In addition to student enrollment, Brodley also diversified the faculty at Khoury. Of the 46 new tenure track hires made during her tenure as Dean, 13 (28%) were women (double the national average) and 8 (17%) were from races and ethnicities that are underrepresented in technology (the national average of faculty from these groups is 1%).</p> <p>“Computing is so essential to the way we live now and will live in the future,” said ACM President Gabriele Kotsis. “At ACM, we believe it is a matter of utmost importance to ensure that all people, regardless of their gender or racial background, learn about the possibilities of pursuing a career in computer science and feel welcome in our field. Carla E. Brodley not only put effective strategies into practice at Northeastern University, but she has developed a program to help dozens of computer science departments around the US effectively diagnose their diversity challenges and systemically address them. Thousands of students have benefited from her work, and we encourage everyone who is interested in broadening participation in academia or the private sector to learn from her example.”</p> <p>Brodley has also led important initiatives to enhance the participation of women of all races and ethnicities in computer science departments across the United States. At Northeastern University, she founded the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) to focus on systemic changes that faculty and administrators can implement at their own universities to increase the representation of women in undergraduate computing. The CIC provides funding and mentorship to colleges and universities to support this objective.</p> <p>With Brodley’s leadership, the CIC has provided over $13 million in Implementation and Diagnostic grants to 56 schools. Diagnostic grantees receive two years of funding to cover the cost of collecting detailed intersectional data related to enrollment, persistence, retention, and graduation. Implementation grantees receive 2-4 years of funding to make systemic sustainable change. The CIC does not just provide the money, it guides grantees through a multi-stage process that includes mentoring faculty and administrators in how to diagnose their own institutional barriers and how to implement the appropriate evidence-based practices to ensure that all students can discover, enjoy and persist in computing.</p> <p>Over the years, she has also done significant work with the Computing Research Association’s Committee on Widening Participation (CRA-WP), serving as a Board Member and Co-Chair.</p> <p>“Microsoft is proud to provide financial support for the inaugural Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring,” said Fatima Kardar, Vice President and COO at Microsoft. “An award recognizing great mentors is an excellent and long overdue idea. All of us can point to someone in our professional life who inspired us, helped us at a pivotal moment, or took time away from their own work to offer us advice or guidance. A spirit of cooperation has defined our field from the beginning—and we should encourage and celebrate it. We also congratulate Carla Brodley for her work in enhancing diversity, especially the participation of women in the field. At Microsoft we strive to create a deeply inclusive environment. It is the right thing to do, and we know that different perspectives on our teams lead to better products and services for our customers.”</p> <p>Brodley will be formally presented with the ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring at the annual ACM Awards Banquet, which will be held this year on Saturday, June 11 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.</p> </div></div> </div> <div class="awards-winners__related-content"> <h3> Background</h3> <div class="awards-winners__related-content-body"> <p><a href="/award_winners/brodley_0736905" target="_blank">Carla E. Brodley</a> is Dean of Inclusive Computing, and past Dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Earlier in her career she served on the faculty of Purdue University. Brodley earned a B.A. Degree in computer science and mathematics from McGill University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.</p> <p>Brodley has authored 30 journal articles, 53 conference papers, 7 magazine articles, 3 book chapters, and 26 symposia and workshop chapters. Her honors include receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Brodley was selected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and was named an ACM Fellow for applications of machine learning and for increasing the participation of women in computer science.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columns large-4 medium-4 small-12 zone-3"> <div> <div> <div class="articles single-cta"> <div class="two-col-alt article-block"> <div class="row" data-equalizer=""> <div class="large-12 medium-12 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <span class="article-category">Awards & Recognition</span> <h2 class="text-left"><a href='https://awards.acm.org/about/2023-allen' target='_blank'>Margaret Martonosi Receives 2023 ACM Fran Allen Award</a></h2> <div class="dek"> <p>ACM named Princeton University's <strong><a href="https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/martonosi_4125274" target="_blank">Margaret Martonosi</a> </strong>the recipient of the <strong><a href="https://awards.acm.org/allen" target="_blank">ACM Frances E. 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