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ACM/IEEE Presidential Panel on the Future of Computing (May 6, @5pm GMT+1) New and compelling ideas transform the future of computing, bringing about changes that have significant implications for our profession and society while raising some profound technical questions. Computer Science research is evolving in many directions with important links to other disciplines, pr

ACM European person to lead ACM: Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis Elected ACM President

ACM has elected Gabriele Kotsis as President for a two-year term beginning July 1. Also elected to two-year terms are Joan Feigenbaum as Vice President, and Elisa Bertino as Secretary/Treasurer. Elected to four-year terms are Members-at-Large Nancy M. Amato, Tom Crick, Susan Dumais, Mehran Sahami and Alejandro Saucedo.

Congratulations to ACM’s Newly Elected Officers! https://bit.ly/2XusHsI

ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy, and scrutiny in COVID contact tracing. Read more https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/acm-europe-technology-policy-committee-calls-transparency-interoperability-privacy

MobiHoc 2019, the Twentieth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing took place in Catania, Italy during July 2-5, 2019. MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges in dynamic networks and computing. At MobiHoc 2019 we were pleased to give the ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award to Giulia Fanti (CMU); Jiantao Jiao (UC Berkeley); Ashok Makkuva, Sewoong Oh, Ranvir Rana, Pramod Viswanath (UIUC) for their paper Barracuda: Theoretical Analysis of the Power of l-polling in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains. The Award was presented by Chiara Petrioli on behalf of the ACM Europe Council. Read the full paper at the ACM Digital Library here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3323679.3326533

ACM TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. At TVX 2019 we were pleased to award the ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award to Sylvia Rothe, Boris Kegeles and Heinrich Hussmann of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for their paper: Camera Heights in Cinematic Virtual Reality: How Viewers Perceive Mismatches Between Camera and Eye Height. The paper explores how the position of the camera in Cinematic Virtual Reality influences presence, sickness and the user experience of the viewer. The award-winning paper was selected from the 14 long and short papers accepted for presentation at this year’s conference by the TVX 2019 Programme Committee. The award was presented by Bran Knowles on behalf of the ACM Europe Council.
Read the full paper at the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3323362

ACM SIGCHI 2019, 04-09 May, Glasgow, UK

The ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award was presented by ACM Europe Awards Group Joaquim Jorge and Aaron Quigley on behalf of the ACM Europe Council to Kevin Doherty and Gavin Doherty for their paper
Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study during the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The paper documents the first feasibility study on mobile devices to engage women in antenatal mental health screening. Using a mobile application, women attending UK National Health Service midwifery clinics provided reports of their wellbeing over a 9-month period. The application was instrumental in reporting risks of depression, self-harm or su***de; two-thirds of whom were not identified by conventional screening in-clinic.

This award-winning paper was selected amongst the 29 Best Paper Award winners at CHI 2019, by members of the CHI 2019 Best Paper Selection Committee.

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Congratulations to Mendel Rosenblum who transformed Data Centers by Reinventing Virtual Machines and is being recognized with the ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award!

Mendel Rosenblum receives inaugural ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award Stanford's Rosenblum co-founded VMware, a private company that developed many of the core technologies that underpin cloud computing today.

Congratulations to Shwetak Patel!

Shwetak N. Patel to receive 2018 ACM Prize in Computing Patel, a professor at the University of Washington, has made landmark contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health.

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Fathers of the Deep Learning Revolution Receive ACM A.M. Turing Award document on 2018 turing award

The ACM Europe Council best paper prize of 1000 Euro was awarded by ACM Europe TPC chair Oliver Grau to Li Yue, Li-Qian Ma, Haoqiang Fan and Kenny Mitchell for their paper ‘Feature-Preserving Detailed 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image’ during the 15th ACM European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 13-14th Dec 2018 in London. The paper presented a technique to generate detailed 3D information from single images for uses like in visual effects industry. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3278473