CAPP: Gaining Recognition

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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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!

7. ACM Awards www.acm.org/awards • SIG Awards • Conference best paper awards and best student paper awards (student as 1st author) • Distinguished service, … • Turing, Lawler, Karlstrom, Hopper, … • 2004 Hopper: Jennifer Rexford • 2003 Distinguished Service: Ruzena Bajcsy

8. ACM Fellow www.acm.org/awards/nomination_packet/ • 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 6/2005 • 2004 Ք Fellows (1 of 20): Vicki Hanson • 2003 Ք Fellows: Elisa Bertino, Barbara Grosz, Mary Jean Harrold, Kathleen McKeown, Bonnie Berger

9. 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

10. IEEE Awards www.ieee.org and www.computer.org/awards • 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 www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smguide.html • 10 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

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

12. AAAI Awards www.aaai.org/Awards/awards.html • Distinguished Service, Newell, … • AAAI Fellows (22 women out of 203 as of 2003) www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.html • Nominations due mid Feb; Must have 2 references (one who is a AAAI Fellow) • 2003 Ք Fellows: Manuela Veloso

13. CRA Awards www.cra.org/main/cra.projects.html • 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 www.cra.org/Activities/craw/borg/index.php • 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

14. Yet More Awards • USENIX Awards • SIAM Awards www.siam.org/prizes • AAAS Awards www.aaas.org/about/awards • AAAS Fellow php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/index.php • NSF (NSB) Awards www.nsf.gov/nsb/awards • Medal of Science, V. Bush, Watermann, … • 2005 Public Service Award: CRA-W • American Philosophical Society www.amphilsoc.org • WITI Awards www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/halloffame • Microsoft Faculty Fellowships research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/ • MacArthur Fellows www.macfound.org/ • TR100 Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/tr100_1004.asp

15. Yet More Awards • Royal Society of Canada www.rsc.ca • Fellows www.rsc.ca/index.php?page=membership&lang_id=1&page_id=60 • NAE/NAS Membership www.nae.edu / www.nas.edu • NAE Section 5: 20 women out of 199 as of 6/2005 • 2005 (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)

16. 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

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

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