ACM elects DoC Professor as President

by Royston Ingram

27 May 2014

Professor Alexander L. Wolf from the Department of Computing has been elected ACM's President.

ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery) have announced the election of new officers to lead their enterprise. The new team, comprised of distinguished computer scientists from leading academic and corporate organizations, will be headed by Alexander L. Wolf of the Department of Computing. He takes the helm as ACM President for a two-year term beginning July 1.

Professor Wolf said he is committed to creating a climate in which fresh ideas are generated to address the challenges confronting ACM in the rapidly evolving computing community. He cited as top priorities the rise of computer-mediated, cost-free, dynamic social networks as well as the Open Access forces reshaping relationships among authors, readers, reviewers, publishers and libraries.

Professor Wolf is known for seminal contributions to software architecture and distributed publish/subscribe systems, as well as automated process discovery, an area related to the business intelligence field. He helped shape ACM’s role in advancing the educators, practitioners, researchers and students at the core of computing through his active participation. He was Secretary/Treasurer of ACM and then Vice Predent of the ACM, and served as chair of the ACM SIG Governing Board. He currently serves on the ACM Europe Council, and is past chair of the ACM Software System Award Committee. Named an ACM Fellow, Professor Wolf is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IEEE and holds a UK Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.