Award Opportunities

SIGMM Awards

• SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications <Call for Nominations>
  • Presented annually to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. The award includes a $1000 honorarium, and the recipient is invited to present a keynote talk at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
  • Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013
  • More Info: http://www.sigmm.org/Awards/award_taa
• SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
  • This award will be presented every year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has made contributions and has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing, communication and applications. The goal will be to evaluate contributions towards advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will recognize members of the SIGMM community and their research contributions in their PhD theses as well as the potential of impact of their PhD theses in multimedia area.
  • The selection committee will focus on candidates’ contributions as judged by innovative ideas and potential impact resulting from their PhD work. The award includes a $500 honorarium, an award certificate of recognition, and an invitation for the recipient to receive the award at a current year's SIGMM-sponsored conference, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia). A public citation for the award will be placed on the SIGMM website, in the SIGMM Records e-newletter as well as in the ACM e-newsletter.
  • Submission Deadline: May   1, 2013 Extended to May 15, 2013 
  • More Info: http://www.sigmm.org/Awards/thesisaward

TOMCCAP Awards

• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award
  • The award is given annually to the author(s) of an outstanding paper published in ACM TOMCCAP within the previous legal year from January 1 until December 31. The award carries a plaque as well as travel funds to the ACM MM conference where the awardee(s) will be honored.
  • Nominations will be reviewed by the Selection Committee and the winning paper will finally be voted by the TOMCCAP Editorial Board. 
  • Only papers published in 2012 (Volume 8), regular issues (no Special Issues) can be nominated.
  • Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013
  • More Info: http://www.sigmm.org/Award/award_tomccap

ACM Awards

Nomination process: http://awards.acm.org/html/award_nominations.cfm Please note that the deadline for submission of nominations for 2013 is November 30, 2013 for all awards, unless otherwise indicated. Please refer to the "ACM website":http://awards.acm.org/ for the latest information. 

• A. M. Turing Award
• ACM - Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences
• Distinguished Service Award
• Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Eckert-Mauchly Award
• Gordon Bell Prize
• Grace Murray Hopper Award
• Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
• Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
• ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
• Eugene L. Lawler Award
• Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award
• Allen Newell Award
• ACM Presidential Award
• SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
• Software System Award
• ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award
• ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award

Advanced Grades of ACM Membership

• ACM Fellows
• ACM Distinguished Member
• ACM Senior Members