Stanford Engineering Professor wins ACM Presidential Award
Mehran Sahami, a professor of Computer Science and the department's associate chair for education, has received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Presidential award.
The ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, recognized Sahami for leading the group that produced the Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) guidelines. These guidelines are sponsored by ACM and the IEEE-Computer Society approximately once per decade to provide curricular guidance for undergraduate programs in computer science both in the US and internationally.
In a press release announcing the awards, ACM said it was honoring the achievements of Sahami and two others for helping build the infrastructure of computer science as a critical discipline in the digital era. The release went so far as to say that this year’s honorees, “made possible the dramatic progress that has enabled computer science to contribute to science and society and change the course of history.”
Sahami’s citation for the award reads: “Dr. Sahami assembled a stellar ACM Delegation; led the joint-society steering committee in efforts to engage the computer science education community worldwide; managed the process of public review and comment; and led the production of a final report that is international in scope, offers curricular and pedagogical guidance applicable to a wide range of institutions, and identifies exemplars of actual courses to provide concrete guidance for implementation of the curriculum in a variety of institutional contexts.”
Sahami and fellow honorees will be recognized at the ACM Awards Banquet on June 21 in San Francisco.
