DoC Professor elected Vice President of the ACM

Professor Alexander Wolf of the Department of Computing has been elected Vice President of the ACM. ACM professional members represent more than 100,000 computing professionals and students

NEW YORK, May 25, 2012 – The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today announced the election of  Professor Alexander L. Wolf of Imperial College London to Vice President.  Also elected were Vinton G. Cerf to President , Vicki L. Hanson of the University of Dundee to Secretary-Treasurer. In addition, Members-at-Large elected officers Eric Allman, chief science officer for Sendmail Inc.; Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! vice president of Research for Europe and Latin America;  Radia Perlman, director of Network Technology at Intel; Mary Lou Soffa, professor and chair of the University of Virginia Computer Science Department; and Eugene H. Spafford, professor at Purdue University and executive director of the Purdue Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and chair of the ACM US Public Policy Council.
 
The new officers elected by ACM professional members represent the more than 100,000 computing professionals and students who comprise ACM's international membership. They pledged to continue ACM's international growth with the expansion of regional councils to developing countries, and to strengthen ACM's influence in shaping the computing profession as a source of innovation and advances that benefit society. 

Alexander Wolf, who holds a Chair in Computing at Imperial College London, is known for seminal contributions to software architecture and deployment, as well as automated process discovery, an area related to the business intelligence field. He has helped to shape ACM's role in advancing the educators, practitioners, researchers and students at the core of computing through his active participation. He was formerly Secretary-Treasurer of ACM, and serves on the editorial board of the Research Highlights section of Communications of the ACM.  He also served as chair of the ACM SIG Governing Board and chair of the ACM Software System Award Committee.  He was instrumental in nurturing the formation of conferences and SIGs that represent new areas of computing, helping ACM members enhance computing’s role in driving innovation. Named an ACM Fellow, Wolf is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the IEEE and holds a UK Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award. 

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