Congrads to NAE’24
The 2024 class of new members
The National Academy of Engineering has just announced its new members for 2024. The webpage has a graphic announcing:
In Britain, your class year is your year of entry, as appropriate here. But on this side of the Pond it is one’s year of graduation—that is, of leaving. Our American usage does not “scale up,” as one might put it. Anyway, I say “congraduations” to the new members.
New Members in Computing
Of the 135 new members, 21 are international. Ten are listed in Section 5: Computer Science and Engineering. Here they are with their citations:
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Surajit Chaudhuri, distinguished scientist in data systems, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Wash. For automated database system tuning, database query optimization, and data cleaning.
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Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. For scalable systems and algorithms enabling the broad application of machine learning in science and industry.
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Peter Hart, founder and chairman emeritus of Ricoh Innovations Inc., Cupertino, Calif. For pattern classification, information theory, computer vision, and robotics.
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Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder, president, and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. For high-powered graphics processing units, fueling the artificial intelligence revolution.
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Pandurang Nayak, vice president of Search at Google LLC, Mountain View, Calif. For web search ranking technology.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan, director, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Va. For multimedia computing for assistive and rehabilitative applications and for leadership at the institutional and national levels.
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George J. Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor and Chair, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. For analysis, synthesis, and control of safety-critical cyber-physical systems.
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Matthias Steffen, IBM Fellow and chief architect in Quantum Computing, IBM, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. For quantum computing systems, from demonstration of Shor’s algorithm to the first deployment of publicly available quantum computers.
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Ion Stoica, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. For networked systems for large-scale data processing, analytics, and machine learning.
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Jeannette M. Wing, executive vice president for research, Columbia University, New York City. For formulation and advocacy of computational thinking, and for contributions to formal methods and trustworthy computing.
We featured Wing two years ago for her discourse on “Computational Thinking.” This is a hallmark of computer science theory but is not limited to theory—it can serve all parts of computing.
Several of the other inductees have achieved much in recognizably theory areas—where the theory is creating deliverables. I am excited about this and hope to see more of it in the near future.
Open Problems
The class is quite impressive. Which ones have close relation to your work?
