Two MCSD Staff Members Recognized by Computing Society
October 2006
Two NIST staff members were recently honored as Distinguished Scientists
by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ronald Boisvert, Chief
of the NIST Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD), and
Dianne O'Leary, a faculty appointee in MCSD from the University of Maryland,
were included in a group of 49 professionals in ACM's inaugural class of
distinguished members. The ACM Distinguished Membership Program, launched
this year, recognizes members with at least 15 years of professional experience
who have have achieved a significant impact on the computing field. Other
institutions with distinguished members among the 49 include IBM, Sun
Microsystems, HP Labs, Yahoo, Microsoft Research, Intel, Google, University
of Minnesota, the University of California, the University of Texas at Austin,
Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, Yale, and others. Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's
oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society.
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