Boisvert Named Winner of ACM 1999 Outstanding Contribution Award
January 2000
Ronald Boisvert, Chief of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
in NIST's Information Technology Laboratory, received the 1999
Outstanding
Contribution Award by the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM). The award cited "his leadership and innovation
as Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Mathematical Software and his
exceptional contributions to the ACM Digital Library project." The award will
be presented at ACM's awards ceremony, which will be held in San Francisco,
California, on May 6, 2000.
Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first educational and scientific computing society. Its members number over 80,000 computing
professionals and students worldwide. The Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award is presented to up to three individuals each
year in recognition of the value and degree of service to ACM. Twenty-eight such awards have been presented since 1976. Last
year's winners were Peter Denning (George Mason University) and Robert Ashenhurst (University of Chicago).
Boisvert served as Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on
Mathematical Software (TOMS) from 1987-1992 and as its Editor-in-Chief
from 1993-present. During his tenure, he has established procedures
for making the entire TOMS editorial process electronic-based and the TOMS
Web pages were one of the first within ACM. In 1995, Boisvert
was appointed to the ACM Publication's Board. In this capacity,
he organized the development of Web pages for all of ACM's research
journals. He then created a working prototype for an integrated online
library for all ACM research publications, establishing conventions
for organization, citations, abstracts, article reviews, full-text,
and ancillary materials. This work enabled ACM to jump-start its planned
Digital Library, which was mounted in a very short span of time. Today the ACM
Digital Library contains more than 42,000 entries, accounting for all ACM
journals and conference proceedings since 1985. Browsing abstracts and detailed
search in the DL is available to the public at no cost, and more than 1 million
Web hits from 111,000 unique visitors are now logged on the ACM server each
month. The DL is the centerpiece of ACM's new Computing Portal project,
which seeks to archive and index all computer science literature of the past 50
years.
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