FEATURE/IBM and IRS computer scientists honored with ACM's SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Awards.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--May 30, 1996--The Association for Computing (body) Association for Computing - (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN SIGPLAN Special Interest Group: Programming Languages (ACM) ) will honor Dr. John T. Richards and Dr. Richard L.Wexelblat with Distinguished Service Awards. The awards recognize outstanding service to the programming and languages community and will be presented at the Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Computing Research Conference on May 30, 1996, in Philadelphia. Dr. Richards is recognized for his five years of dedication as chairman to the Object-Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA OOPSLA - Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications. ) Steering Committee. Dr. Wexelblatt is honored for 15 years of devoted service as editor of Notices, SIGPLAN's monthly newsletter. Dr. Richards joined the computer science research staff at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division. The center is on three sites, with the main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, 45 miles north of New York City, a building in Hawthorne, New York, and offices in Cambridge, in 1978 after receiving his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . He has served in both research and management roles in numerous networking and interpersonal communications projects. Most recently, he led the design and programming of a small talk-based client/server application suite to provide easy and affordable Internet access to primary and secondary schools. Dr. Richards is active in both ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction and SIGPLAN. Dr. Wexelblat currently holds the position of lead architect with the Internal Revenue Service. He received his bachelor's and masters degrees in electrical engineering in 1959 and 1961, and Ph.D. in computer science in 1965, all from the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . Since receiving his doctorate, Wexelblat has worked at industrial research centers including Bell Labs, Sperry Univac, ITT and Phillips Laboratories. He has published papers and book chapters in areas ranging from user interface to artificial intelligence. ACM is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students throughout the world. ACM serves its 85,000 members by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM, with its world-class journals and magazines, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops, and electronic forums, is a primary resource to the IT field. CONTACT: Tina Angelone 212-626-0532 angelone@acm.org |
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