∫ archive ∫ Distinguished Service Award
CRA makes an award, usually annually, to a person who has made an outstanding service contribution to the computing research community. This award recognizes service in the areas of government affairs, professional societies, publications or conferences, and leadership that has a major impact on computing research.
2000Juris Hartmanis
Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering at Cornell University
From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Hartmanis chaired the Study of the Scope and Direction of Computer Science for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. This study resulted in the influential volume Computing the Future: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering, which had a major impact on the computing research community’s ability to look outward.
Juris Hartmanis recently completed a two-year term as the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). During his tenure, he effectively positioned NSF and CISE to assume a leadership role in response to the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) report. He was instrumental in shaping the discussion that led to NSF’s playing the lead role in the Information Technology Research (ITR) program.
More biographical information can be found at the Cornell University Computer Science’s website.
Dr. Hartmanis received his award at CRA’s Snowbird Conference 2000 on July 10, 2000.
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