CAPP: Gaining Recognition Mary Jane (Janie) Irwin Penn State University

In the best of all worlds, you do good work and it is recognized But in the real world, you often have to be proactive to ensure that your contributions are recognized

Getting Recognized Let people know about your accomplishments, successes Appear confident, be positive –“Superwoman” talk pointers Have your “elevator talk” of recent accomplishments ready... but don’t appear to be a braggart

Go After Recognitions & Awards Within your department Within your university Within the profession –ACM, IEEE, AAAI, CRA, …

At Your Institution Find out what awards exist in your department, in your college, in your university Determine which ones you might be eligible for (now is not the time to be overly modest) Research the application process and determine who to approach

Task 1: Make sure your web page is up-to-date and as professional and complete as you can make it. And keep it that way!

ACM Awards –SIG Awards Conference best paper awards and best student paper awards (student as 1 st author) Distinguished service, … –Turing, Lawler, Karlstrom, Hopper, … 2004 Hopper: Jennifer Rexford 2003 Distinguished Service: Ruzena Bajcsy

ACM Fellow –Top 1% of all ACM members –Nominations due end of August –Must have been a professional ACM member for 5 years and have 5 to 8 endorsers (who are members of ACM) –46 women out of 536 as of 6/ Ք Fellows (1 of 20): Vicki Hanson 2003 Ք Fellows: Elisa Bertino, Barbara Grosz, Mary Jean Harrold, Kathleen McKeown, Bonnie Berger

Some Rules of Thumb Very rare for a nomination to be submitted without your knowledge & preparation assistance For fellow, must show concrete evidence of both –Technical achievements (papers, invited/keynote presentations, awards, patents) –Outstanding service to ACM (and the computing community) Better if nominator and most endorsers are not from your own institution –When endorsing more than one Fellow candidate in a given year the endorser must rank each of the candidates he/she is endorsing

IEEE Awards and –Medal of Honor, Field, Goode, Karlsson, … –IEEE Fellows 0.1% of total voting membership in any one year Nominations due March 1 Must be an active Senior Member of IEEE for 5 years and have 5 to 8 references (who are IEEE Fellows) 2005 Ք (CSE) Fellows: Jeanne Ferrante –IEEE Senior Member years of professional experience (can include a maximum of 5 years of educational experience) Can self nominate; Need 3 references from current IEEE Senior or Fellow members

Task 2: Apply for IEEE Senior Member Task 3: Watch for new ACM Senior Member category and apply for it when eligible

AAAI Awards –Distinguished Service, Newell, … –AAAI Fellows (22 women out of 203 as of 2003) Nominations due mid Feb; Must have 2 references (one who is a AAAI Fellow) 2003 Ք Fellows: Manuela Veloso

CRA Awards –A. Nico Habermann Award for outstanding contribution to aiding members of underrep groups within the computing research community 2005: Jane Margolis; 2004: Maria Klawe and Nancy Leveson –Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service contributions to the computing research community 2005: Ed Lazowska; 2004: David Clark and Barbara Simons –Board membership – nominations due in late January –CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award for women no more than 10 years past the PhD who have made significant research contributions and who have contributed to their profession, especially in outreach to women Nominations due mid Feb, award announced mid May 2004: Joanne McGrenere; 2005: Yuan Yuan Zhou

Yet More Awards USENIX Awards SIAM Awards AAAS Awards –AAAS Fellow php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/index.phpphp.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/index.php NSF (NSB) Awards –Medal of Science, V. Bush, Watermann, … –2005 Public Service Award: CRA-W American Philosophical Society WITI Awards Microsoft Faculty Fellowships research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/ research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/ MacArthur Fellows TR100 Technology Review

Yet More Awards Royal Society of Canada –Fellows g_id=1&page_id=60 g_id=1&page_id=60 NAE/NAS Membership / –NAE Section 5: 20 women out of 199 as of 6/ (4 out of 15): Marsha Berger, Shafi Goldwasser, Leah Jamieson, Jennifer Widom 2004 (2 of 12): Joan Mitchell, Linda Petzold –NAS CIS: 2 women out of 40 as of 6/2005 (Shafi Goldwasser, Margaret Wright)

How to Position Yourself For Academy (Science/Engr) membership –Significant, documented, unique research impact Clear evidence of industry, government usage Patents, Best paper awards –Awards: ACM/IEEE Fellow, etc. –Visibility in the NAS/NAE community Need 3 to 4 academy members to endorse the nomination –“Making it” should be a surprise; but putting together the nomination requires detailed info (e.g., city & dob, # journal pubs, # patents, …) so, again, keep your web page up-to-date

Awards that Don’t Count Who’s Who collections – don’t waste your money CiteSeer most cited authors

When you’ve made it, be sure to “pay it back” by 1.Writing promotion and tenure letters for others 2.Nominating others for awards or helping prepare nominations 3.Endorsing others for awards 4.Serving on awards committees