08.06.21

Editorial Note

Jeffrey David Ullman, an emeritus professor at Stanford University, the co-recipient of the 2020 Turing Award, has been harassed by Iranian activists for holding pro-Israel views.

The A.M. Turing Award by the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) is the equivalent of the “Nobel Prize” of computing. It recognizes the profound impact on computer science and awards a $1 million prize annually. For the year 2020, ACM awarded Stanford University’s Jeffrey David Ullman, shared with his long-time collaborator Alfred Vaino Aho of Columbia University. The award recognizes their seminal work in compilers and algorithms for their nine co-authored textbooks dating back to the early 1970s, including 1974 The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms, and 1977 Principles of Compiler Design. These books became required reading for millions of computer scientists, and the catalog of standard techniques “divide and conquer” became the core of computer science theory. ACM has announced the selection of Ullman and Aho in late March.

Ullman, who is supportive of Israel and Zionism, has been harassed for his views during two dacades. In October 2001, Ullman published on his webpage polemics section “Some Thoughts on the Bombings of Sept. 11.” He stated that Islamic fundamentalists had used spectacular terror to confront the West. In 2002 he urged the Palestinians to forsake terror and “build better lives for themselves and a better relationship with their Israeli neighbors.” He noted that Israel, a country with about 1.5% of the US population, then suffered from severe terrorist attacks every 3 months; “Somehow the world largely failed to notice or care.”

Following these and other postings, Ullman started receiving many malicious emails. One comment stated: “if any one believes in what you said, I will call him the most arrogant idiot ignorant Zionist extremist, and racist I have ever seen.” Another declared: “You are a Zionist pig, and how dare you say all those nasty things about Yasser Arafat et al.”

Ullman has been targeted by Iranian students who sent him emails requesting his help in admission to Stanford University, some asking him political questions such as, “Why did the US shoot down an Iranian airliner/take land from Native Americans/Depose Mossadegh, etc. etc.?”, or “How do I justify ‘Zionist crimes’, etc.?”

In 2011, the President of Stanford University was asked to censure Ullman for “racially discriminatory and inflammatory” comments because Ullman responded to an email from a student at Sharif University in Tehran who asked him about admission to Stanford University, that he could not help the student gain admission since he has no involvement in the admissions process. Ullman also wrote that “If Iranians want the benefits of Stanford and other institutions in the U.S., they have to respect the values we hold in the U.S., including freedom of religion and respect for human rights.” As a result, he was accused of “bigotry and xenophobia.”

Not coincidently, Ullman has a long connection to Israel. He wrote that he lived in Jerusalem in 1984. Also, he has been working with Israeli universities for many years. In 2006, the Chair in Computer Sciences at Ben Gurion University

announced on his webpage that “Professor Jeffrey (Stanford University, CA) and Holly Ullman, in consultation with Professor Shlomi Dolev (BGU), recently established the Martha and Solomon Scharf Prize for Developing Excellence in Computer, Communications and Information Sciences, supporting excellent students. In addition, they will support research activity in the computer science disciplines.”

Likewise, The Hebrew University Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering reported that “Prof. Ullman is also a generous benefactor to our department, and his help is instrumental in providing student stipends, and supporting the Data and Computing Center.”

In 2016, the Ben Gurion University Board of Governors awarded Ullman an Honorary Doctorate for his achievements and held a seminar in honor of Ullman.

Ullman has also been fighting against anti-Semitism. Last month he signed a petition, “Opposing Antisemitism, Supporting IHRA,” organized by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), which recently circulated a letter supporting the Working Definition of Antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The letter garnered more than 300 signatures from leading scholars, intellectuals, and professionals.

His Iranian detractors went into high gear after the ACM made the 2020 Turing Award public. A recent petition organized by Iranians was published online, collecting international signatures, accusing “Ullman’s Repeated Discrimination against Iranian Students,” and charging that Ullman’s webpage “contains discriminatory and inflammatory statements regarding Iranians.”

ACM has read the complaint and responded that it will not change the selection: “As part of the Awards process, ACM routinely checks whether we have received any complaints about award nominees with respect to ACM’s Code of Ethics or other policies. In this case, we determined that no complaints had ever been filed against Jeffrey Ullman. ACM also relied on the submitted nomination package and carefully evaluated the letters provided by the nominator and the endorsers to assess the candidate’s worthiness for an award. No red flags were raised in the nomination package.”

Not satisfied with ACM response, a recent article by Mahdi Cheraghchi, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, published on the pages of Stanford Daily, accused Ullman of “rants of hate and bigotry against Iranians.” He requested the ACM, to “ensure that a clear precedent is set today by ACM that would not give a free pass to any future abusers of academic freedom,” and that “ACM needs to do better and bring back trust and hope to the community.”

Much of the agitation against Ullman was organized by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), known as a front for the Iranian regime’s propaganda work in America. Dr. Fredun Hojabri, the former vice-chancellor of the Sharif University of Technology in Iran, wrote Stanford University in 2011 to complain about Ullman. For decades now, Sharif University has carried many projects for the Revolutionary Guards, including its nuclear weapons program.

The Iranian involvement in anti-Israel activity on American campuses is worrying. With its long-lasting support of Palestinian causes, the regime sends people to harass those who support the Jewish state.

References:

https://awards.acm.org/about/2020-turing

ACM Turing Award Honors Innovators Who Shaped the Foundations of Programming Language Compilers and Algorithms

Columbia’s Aho and Stanford’s Ullman Developed Tools and Fundamental Textbooks Used by Millions of Software Programmers around the World

ACM named Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists. Aho is the Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University. Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Computer software powers almost every piece of technology with which we interact. Virtually every program running our world—from those on our phones or in our cars to programs running on giant server farms inside big web companies—is written by humans in a higher-level programming language and then compiled into lower-level code for execution. Much of the technology for doing this translation for modern programming languages owes its beginnings to Aho and Ullman.

Beginning with their collaboration at Bell Labs in 1967 and continuing for several decades, Aho and Ullman have shaped the foundations of programming language theory and implementation, as well as algorithm design and analysis. They made broad and fundamental contributions to the field of programming language compilers through their technical contributions and influential textbooks. Their early joint work in algorithm design and analysis techniques contributed crucial approaches to the theoretical core of computer science that emerged during this period.

“The practice of computer programming and the development of increasingly advanced software systems underpin almost all of the technological transformations we have experienced in society over the last five decades,” explains ACM President Gabriele Kotsis. “While countless researchers and practitioners have contributed to these technologies, the work of Aho and Ullman has been especially influential. They have helped us to understand the theoretical foundations of algorithms and to chart the course for research and practice in compilers and programming language design. Aho and Ullman have been thought leaders since the early 1970s, and their work has guided generations of programmers and researchers up to the present day.”

“Aho and Ullman established bedrock ideas about algorithms, formal languages, compilers and databases, which were instrumental in the development of today’s programming and software landscape,” added Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and SVP, Google AI. “They have also illustrated how these various disciplines are closely interconnected. Aho and Ullman introduced key technical concepts, including specific algorithms, that have been essential. In terms of computer science education, their textbooks have been the gold standard for training students, researchers, and practitioners.”

A Longstanding Collaboration

Aho and Ullman both earned their PhD degrees at Princeton University before joining Bell Labs, where they worked together from 1967 to 1969. During their time at Bell Labs, their early efforts included developing efficient algorithms for analyzing and translating programming languages.

In 1969, Ullman began a career in academia, ultimately joining the faculty at Stanford University, while Aho remained at Bell Labs for 30 years before joining the faculty at Columbia University. Despite working at different institutions, Aho and Ullman continued their collaboration for several decades, during which they co-authored books and papers and introduced novel techniques for algorithms, programming languages, compilers and software systems.

Influential Textbooks

Aho and Ullman co-authored nine influential books (including first and subsequent editions). Two of their most widely celebrated books include:

The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (1974)
Co-authored by Aho, Ullman, and John Hopcroft, this book is considered a classic in the field and was one of the most cited books in computer science research for more than a decade. It became the standard textbook for algorithms courses throughout the world when computer science was still an emerging field. In addition to incorporating their own research contributions to algorithms, The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms introduced the random access machine (RAM) as the basic model for analyzing the time and space complexity of computer algorithms using recurrence relations. The RAM model also codified disparate individual algorithms into general design methods. The RAM model and general algorithm design techniques introduced in this book now form an integral part of the standard computer science curriculum.

Principles of Compiler Design (1977)
Co-authored by Aho and Ullman, this definitive book on compiler technology integrated formal language theory and syntax-directed translation techniques into the compiler design process. Often called the “Dragon Book” because of its cover design, it lucidly lays out the phases in translating a high-level programming language to machine code, modularizing the entire enterprise of compiler construction. It includes algorithmic contributions that the authors made to efficient techniques for lexical analysis, syntax analysis techniques, and code generation. The current edition of this book, Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (co-authored with Ravi Sethi and Monica Lam), was published in 2007 and remains the standard textbook on compiler design.

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Statement on the Selection of Jeffrey Ullman for a Turing Award

Update: A copy of this letter listing 1,079 signatories (and 89 anonymous) was sent to the ACM administration on April 16, 2021, and ACM has acknowledged receipt. On April 19, 2021, ACM published a response to this letter.
We continue to accept new signatures.

An Open Letter to Committee of the ACM A.M. Turing Award and ACM:

Professor Jeffrey D. Ullman of Stanford University has been chosen to receive the 2020 ACM A. M. Turing Award, generally regarded as the highest distinction in computing.

While we agree that the technical and educational contributions of Professor Ullman could meet the bar for a “Nobel Prize of Computing”, we condemn the selection as one that directly goes against the Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) values that the Computer Science community, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in particular, aim to uphold. While we recognize Professor Ullman’s freedom of speech and freedom to hold and express his political views, we are concerned by his sustained discriminatory behavior against students and by ACM bestowing upon such a person an award named after Alan Turing, someone who suffered much discrimination in his tragic life [1].

ACM defines its mission as follows: “ACM is a global scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of computing, serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open exchange of information and by promoting the highest professional and ethical standards.” Furthermore, ACM explicitly defines “Diversity and Inclusion” as one of its four core values [2].

We assert, based on documented evidence, that not only has Professor Ullman willfully violated the “highest professional and ethical standards” that ACM has the mission to uphold, but also that he has demonstrated a pattern of actively turning against the values of D & I for decades. History may judge this award as an indelible blot on the entire computing profession.

Ullman’s Repeated Discrimination against Iranian Students

Among the existing evidence is a web page maintained by Professor Ullman that contains discriminatory and inflammatory statements regarding Iranians [3]. According to the data on the Internet Archive [4], he maintained this web page from as early as 2006 until late 2020, when he removed it following years of public outcry and pushback [5]. In 2011, the National Iranian American Council issued a formal complaint to Stanford University centered on his webpage [6–12], with no action taken by Stanford, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education [9], and seemingly no impact on Professor Ullman’s views or behavior.

There are indeed numerous documented instances of him corresponding, over the years, many to aspiring young Iranian students, with anti-Iranian sentiments as well as explicit discrimination based on presumptions on their political views [3,6 –12,13]. In one instance, among countless others, Professor Ullman responded to an email from an Iranian student who had inquired about admission at Stanford saying [6–12]: “And even if I were in a position to help, I will not help Iranian students until Iran recognizes and respects Israel as the land of the Jewish people. I know that you may not hold the same insane position as the mullahs that run your country, but it is a matter of principle. If Iranians want the benefits of Stanford and other institutions in the US, they have to respect the values we hold in the US, including freedom of religion and respect for human rights.”

As another example of his correspondence, in support of the University of Massachusetts’s soon-to-be-reverted decision to ban Iranian students from certain engineering programs, Professor Ullman wrote in 2015 [13]: “I think we need to distinguish between Americans of Iranian descent, who have chosen to cast their lot with the United States, and Iranians who did not leave Iran when the religious fanatics took over, and who may well be sympathetic to Iran’s desires to build a nuclear weapon and to Iran’s support for terrorists throughout the world. While I’m sure there are some students living in Iran, who would like nothing better than to leave that country for as long as it is run by Islamic fundamentalists, can we afford to take that risk of educating them and then having them turn that education against us? Especially, can we afford the risk given all the bright students from other countries that share US values who would love to be accepted to a US school?”

Thus, Professor Ullman has explicitly advocated to distinguish between Iranians who left Iran before the 1979 revolution and those who did not. It is worthwhile to reflect that many of today’s key academic players of Iranian descent were once aspiring students in Iran. Perhaps the most prominent example is the late Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University and the only woman to ever win the Fields medal, who studied in Iran before pursuing graduate studies in the US. Professor Ullman is simply calling for a categorical ban against such talents. That said, we emphasize that people should not need to have exceptional talents or make significant academic contributions to be treated with dignity and respect.

Ullman’s Rationalization of Crimes Against Native Americans

Professor Ullman’s insensitive opinions extend beyond individuals of a specific national origin. For example, he rationalizes the taking away of land from Native Americans, which included several acts recognized by scholars as genocide against such populations [14], as “Technologically more advanced civilizations replace less advanced civilizations” [3].

Bigger Picture on the Implications of ACM’s Action and Silence

At a time when the tremendous costs of discriminatory and inhumane behavior against minority groups, such as African Americans and Asians, among others, is being broadly recognized in the computing community and beyond, ACM should not ignore such explicit and repeated xenophobic language and behavior by the person they are bestowing their highest award upon. Furthermore, discrimination against students based on their national origin and their presumed political views is in direct violation of the academic and D & I values that ACM aims to uphold as a core value. Generations to come may see this action by ACM and their silence on how this award negatively impacts D & I in computing as defiling the very respectability of the Turing Award and as an insult to the memory of Alan Turing himself.

We ask ACM, and particularly the ACM A.M. Turing Award Committee, the following:

Report on the specifics surrounding this nomination, especially the extent of checks and balances that are in place to ensure that the process of awarding the highest distinction in computing is protected against violations of the ACM mission and its core values.
Clarity from ACM on establishing compliance with its core values, particularly on D & I standards, as an explicit criterion for receiving this award. If not, transparently state that behaviors that directly damage inclusivity and diversity in the computing field are not relevant in the criteria listed by ACM for this award.

Signed by 1,304 (including 275 anonymous)

Last update: May 20, 2021.

Some Notable Statistics (according to the disclosed data, updated periodically):

1 ACM Turing Award Laureate
1 Abel Prize Laureate
4 Nevanlinna Prize Laureates
4 MacArthur Fellows
21 ACM Fellows
16 ACM Distinguished Members
23 ACM Senior Members
479 ACM Members (including Student/Professional)

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References:

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/alan-turing-enigma-code-breaker-and-computer-pioneer-wins-royal-pardon.html
[2] https://www.acm.org/about-acm/mission-vision-values-goals
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200129080549/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/iranian.html
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/iranian.html
[5] https://twitter.com/2plus2make5/status/1377720193913356289
[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20110124051512/http://www.niacouncil.org/site/DocServer/Stanford_Discrimination_Letter.pdf
[7] https://web.archive.org/web/20140809043733/http://www.paaia.org/CMS/stanford-university-president-responds-directly-to-paaia-over-retired-professors-anti-iranian-remarks.aspx
[8] https://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/01/10/professor-comes-under-fire-for-alleged-anti-iranian-e-mail/
[9] https://www.chronicle.com/article/iranian-american-group-calls-on-stanford-to-censure-professor/
[10] https://web.archive.org/web/20140727205645/http://www.lobelog.com/niac-calls-out-anti-iranian-stanford-professor/
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Ullman&oldid=1015653392
[12] http://b.link/ullman-email
[13] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gplus/20150212-VDYSkY69tGe.html
[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html

Current List of Signatories (alphabetical):

– Academia: Faculty / Staff / PostDoc:

A. Aldo Faisal, Professor of AI & Neuroscience, Imperial College London
A. Nicki Washington, Professor of the Practice, Duke University, Duke University
Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Colgate Unviersity
Aaron Keen, Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, California Polytechnic State University
Aaron Quigley, Professor of Computer Science, University of New South Wales
Abigale Stangl, Accessibility Researcher, CI-Fellow, University of Washington, HCDE
Abolfazl Asudeh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Adam Blank, Assistant Teaching Professor, Caltech
Adam Perer, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Adrian Sampson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Afshin Nikzad, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
Ahmad Lashkaripour, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Alastair Donaldson, Professor of Computer Science, ACM Senior Member, Imperial College London
Aleksander Madry, Professor, MIT
Alessandro Treves, Interested in neural computation, SISSA
Alex Bredariol Grilo, Researcher, CNRS, LIP6, Sorbonne Université
Alexandra Ion, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Pomona College
Alexandra To, Assistant Professor of Art + Design and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Ali Darvish, Lecturer of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Ali Diba, Researcher, KU Leuven
Ali Jadbabaie, Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ali Khaledi Nasab, Neuroscientist, Stanford University
Ali Tajer, Associate Professor of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alireza Khatami, Assistant Professor, Ryerson university
Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Researcher, Deprtment of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Álvaro Cárdenas, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Amin Adibi, Disease Modeller, University of British Columbia
Amin Gohari, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies
Amin Karbasi, Associate Professor, Yale University
Amin Milani Fard, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology – Vancouver
Amin Saberi, Professor, Stanford University
Amin Sayedi, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Amin Shokrollahi, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Amir Akbari, Assistant Professor, Ontario Tech University
Amir H. Payberah, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, IST Austria
Amir Kamil, Lecturer of Computer Science, University of Michigan
Amir Nayyeri, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Amir Rahmati, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Amir Shaikhha, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Amir-massoud Farahmand, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Amirbehshad Shahrasbi, Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow
Amirmohammad Ziaei, Research Assistant, Aalto University
Amy Csizmar Dalal, Professor of Computer Science, Carleton College
Amy J. Ko, Professor, University of Washington
Amy Pavel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Amy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington Allen School
Andrea Forte, Assoc. Professor, Drexel University
Andrea Thomer, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
Andres Marin Lopez, Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Andrew Berry, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Andrew Miller, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Andrew Miller, Assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angelika Strohmayer, PhD, Northumbria University
Anil Madhavapeddy, University Lecturer, University of Cambridge
Anind K. Dey, Dean and Professor, Information School, University of Washington
Anne Condon, Professor, University of British Columbia
Annu Prabhakar, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
Arash Khosravifar, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University
Arash Massoudieh, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Catholic University of America
Arash Termehchy, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Arian Maleki, Associate Professor of Statistics, Columbia University
Arman Noroozian, Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam / Delft University of Technology
Arun Kumar, Assistant Professor of CSE and HDSI, UC San Diego
Arvind Satyanarayan, Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL
Arya Mazumdar, Associate Professor, University of California San Diego
Ashia Wilson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, MIT
Ashkan Khakzar, Research Scientist / Lecturer, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
Atilla Elçi, Professor of Software Engineering, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey
Atri Rudra, Professor, University at Buffalo
Audrey Girouard, Associate Professor, Carleton University
Augusto Esteves, Professor of Computer Science, IST, ULisbon
Austin Toombs, Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University
Avi Wigderson, Professor, Nevanlinna and Abel prize laureate, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Azadeh Yadollahi, Scientist, University Health Network
Azalea Raad, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science, Imperial College London
Babak Salimi, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego
Bahar Behzadnezhad, RF Engineer, UW-Madison
Barna Saha, Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley
Behrouz Touri, Dr., University of California San Diego
Ben Glocler, Reader (eq. Associate Professor), Imperial College London
Ben Green, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Michigan
Benedict R. Gaster, Associate Professor in Physical Computing, University of West of England
Benjamin Gorman, Lecturer in Computer Science, Bournemouth University, UK
Benjamin Pittman-Polletta, Research Assistant Professor, Boston University
Beta Ziliani, Professor of computer science, FAMAF, Universidad nacional de Córdoba
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Professor of ECE, USC
Birgit Penzenstadler, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Birna van Riemsdijk, Associate Professor Intimate Computing, University of Twente
Blase Ur, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Boaz Barak, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Bogdana Rakova, Guest Editor, Springer International Journal of Community Wellbeing, Guest Editor, Springer International Journal of Community Wellbeing
Brett Stalbaum, Teaching Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Brian Brubach, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wellesley College
Briana B. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Nebraska Omaha
Briane Paul Samson, Assistant Professor, De La Salle University
Brianna Posadas, Postdoc, Virginia Tech
Bruce Kapron, Professor of Computer Science, University of Victoria
Bruce Weide, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Bruno Grenet, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Université de Montpellier
Camille Cobb, Carnegie Mellon University
Carlos Gustavo Lopez Pombo, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computing, School of Science, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Carlos Scheidegger, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Arizona
Casey Fiesler, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Catherine Cronquist Browning, Assistant Dean, Academic Programs, Equity & Inclusion, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information
Catherine D’Ignazio, Assistant Professor of Urban Science & Planning, MIT
Cécilia Lancien, Researcher in Mathematics, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse & CNRS
Celine Latulipe, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Ceren Budak, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh
Charlotte Lee, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Christian Kaestner, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Christina Chung, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Christine Alvarado, Teaching Professor, University of California, San Diego
Christoph Becker, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Christopher Stewart, Associate Professor and Chair of Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Claudio Gutierrez, Professor, Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile
Cliff Lampe, Professor, University of Michigan
Colin M. Gray, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Colin S. Gordon, Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Conor Thomas McBride, Reader, University of Strathclyde
Constantinos Daskalakis, Nevanlinna Prize, Professor of Computer Science, MIT
Cristopher Moore, Professor, Santa Fe Institute
D. Paul Ralph, Professor, Dalhousie University
Dan Garcia, Teaching Professor, Teaching Professor
Danica Sutherland, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Daniel A. Spielman, MacArthur Fellow, Nevanlinna Prize, Sterling Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Daniel D. Sleator, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Epstein, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Daniel Freund, Assistant Professor, MIT
Daniel Hsu, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Daniel Kane, University of California, San Diego
Daniel M. Romero, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Daniel Zappala, Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University
Dante R Chialvo, Head & Professor of Medical Physics, American Physical Society Fellow, U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Universidad Nacional de San Martin (Argentina)
Danupon Nanongkai, University of Copenhagen
David Ham, Reader in Computational Mathematics, Imperial College London
David IW Levin, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
David Jorjani, Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto
David Lindlbauer, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
David Miller, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Central Florida
David Mohaisen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Central Florida
Davood Rafiei, Professor of Computer Science, University of Alberta
Delaram Yazdansepas, Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Djamé Seddah, Maitre de conférence en informatique
Djordje Jevdjic, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Douglas Urner, Teacher, Software Developer, South Kitsap School District
Dr. Lee Nelson, Professor of Nursing, Riverside City College
Drew Paine, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Earlence Fernandes, Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ebrahim Bagheri, Associate Professor, Ryerson University
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University
Eiad Yafi, Assistant Professor, Universiti Kuala Lumpur
Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Assistant Professor, IST Austria & Facebook
Elham Mousavidin, Associate Professor of Management and Marketing, University of St. Thomas
Elias Castegren, Postdoctoral Associate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Elijah Joseph Weber-Han, Researcher, Cornell University
Elizabeth Patitsas, Assistant professor, McGill University
Emiliano De Cristofaro, Professor, University College London & Alan Turing Institute
Emily Philippsen, Assistant Professor, Riverside City College
Emma Pierson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Emma Tosch, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Vermont
Eric Gilbert, John Derby Evans Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Eric Paulos, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Eric Walkingshaw, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Erin Brady, Assistant Professor of Human Centered Computing, Indiana University
Eureka Foong, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo
Eva Hornecker, Professor of HCI, ACM Senior Member, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Evan Anderson, Research Coordinator, Northwestern University
Evan M Peck, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Bucknell University
Evangelos Milios, Professor, Dalhousie University
Eytan Adar, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Fang Song, Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver
Farshad Ghanei, Assistant Professor of Teaching, University at Buffalo
Fatemeh Navidi, Principal Researcher, University of Chicago
Fernando Pérez, Associate Professor in Statistics. Recipient of the 2017 ACM Software System Award (Project Jupyter), UC Berkeley
Florian Echtler, Associate professor of computer science, Aalborg University
Foaad Khosmood, Associate Professor of Computer Science, California Polytechnic State University
Fredo Durand, Amar Bose Professor of Computing., MIT
Garreth Tigwell, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Principal Scientist, Databases, CNRS, LIRIS, France
Geoff Kuenning, Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College
Gian Maria Campedelli, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Trento, Italy
Gillian Smith, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Glencora Borradaile, Oregon State University
Greg Durrett, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Gregory D. Hager, Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Gregory Gay, Assistant Professor, Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg
Guido Wirtz, Full Professor of Computer Science, University of Bamberg
Hadi Hemmati, Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hamed Haddadi, Imperial College London
Hamed Hatami, Professor of Computer Science, McGill University
Hamed Niknam, Post-doctoral Researcher, McGill University
Hamed Zamani, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hamid Eghbalzadeh, Postdoc, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Georgia
Harley Eades, Associate Professor, Augusta University
Harry Hochheiser, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Hasti Seifi, Assistant Professorin Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
Hazhir Rahmandad, Associate professor of system dynamics, Massachusetts institute of technology
Helen, Professor Emerita of Human Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science, University of York
Henry Yuen, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Hernan Ponce de Leon, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Hessam Mahdavifar, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Hessameddin Akhlaghpour, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University
Himan Abdollahpouri, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Holly Rushmeier, Professor, Yale University
Hossein Hojjat, Assistant Professor, TeIAS
Houssam Abbas, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Hung Le, Assistant Professor Computer Science, UMass Amherst
Ilya Sergey, Associate Professor, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore
Irene Veronica Pasquetto, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
J Khadijah Abdurahman, Director of We Be Imagining, We Be Imagining, Columbia University
Jafar Haadi Haadi Jafarian, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver
Jalal Kazempour, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark
James A. Landay, Professor of Computer Science, ACM Fellow, Member of ACM SIGCHI Academy, Stanford University
James Fogarty, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
James R. Wallace, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Jamileh, Assistant Professor, Cape Breton University
Jan Van den Bergh, Hasselt University
Jan Vondrak, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Jana Giceva, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, TU Munich
Janet Davis, Associate Professor and Microsoft Chair of Computer Science, Whitman College
Jason Hartline, Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern U
Jason Lewis, University Research Chair for Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary, Concordia University
Jason Yip, Assistant professor, University of Washington
Jean Hardy, Assistant Professor of Media & Information, Michigan State University
Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Professor of Computer Science, current ACM Council member (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-council), Clarkson University
Jeehoon Kang, Assistant Professor, KAIST
Jeffrey Bigham, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeffrey Heer, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
Jelani Nelson, Professor, Department of EECS, UC Berkeley
Jelena Golubovic, Simon Fraser University
Jennifer Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara
Jennifer Mankoff, Richard E. Ladner Professor, CHI Academy, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
Jeroen Zuiddam, Simons Junior Fellow, New York University
Jesse Thomason, University of Southern California
Jessica Hammer, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Jia-Bin Huang, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Jie Qi, Project assistant professor, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, University of Tokyo
Jim Dowling, Associate Professor, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
Joanne M. Atlee, Professor, University of Waterloo
Jodi Julian, Professor
Joel Sommers, Professor, Colgate University
John Regehr, professor, University of Utah, USA
John S. Seberger, Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University
John Sarracino, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
John Wickerson, Lecturer, Imperial College London
Jon E. Froehlich, Associate Professor, Allen School, University of Washington
Jonathan Aldrich, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Crowcroft, Professor, University of Cambridge
Jose Antonio Ruiperez Valiente, Research Fellow, University of Murcia
Joseph Seering, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science, Stanford University
Joshua A. Grochow, Assistant Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder
Joshua Cooper, Professor of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
Joshua Quicksall, Communications Specialist, Institute for Software Research, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Juan Wang, Professor of political science, McGill
Julie Hui, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Julie J Lee, University College London
Julie Kientz, Professor, University of Washington
Kaave Hosseini, Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Mellon University
Kaivan Kamali, Computational Scientist, Penn State University
Kamiar Rahnama Rad, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University New York
Kamyar Khodamoradi, Postdoc in Computer Science, University of Würzburg
Karen Boyd, University of Michigan
Karen Fisher, Professor, University of Washington
Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Katharina Reinecke, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Katie Siek, Professor and Chair, Indiana University
Katta Spiel, Hertha-Firnberg Scholar, TU Wien
Katy E. Pearce, Associate professor, University of Washington
Kay Connelly, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Informatics, Indiana University
Kelly Lyons, Professor, Faculty of Information and Department of CS, University of Toronto
Kendra Albert, Clinical Instructor, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Kenneth Holstein, Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
Kentaro Toyama, Professor, University of Michigan
Kevin Skadron, Professor of Computer Science, FACM, University of Virginia
Kia Bazargan, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Kiran Garimella, Michael Hammer Postdoc, MIT
Kolina Koltai, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Kyle Fox, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Kyle Thayer, Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Washington
Lance Eaton, Educator
Lara Letaw, Faculty, Oregon State University
Laura Alonso Alemany, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Laura Forlano, Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
Lauren Wilcox, Associate Professor, Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Lawrence H. Moulton, Professor of International Health and (joint) Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lawrence Kim, Postdoc, Stanford University
Lefteris Manassakis, Research engineer, FORTH-ICS
Lena Fanya Aeschbach, University of Basel
Leo Ducas, Senior Researcher in Cryptology, Centrum Wiskunde & Informaticas
Liang Huang, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Oregon State University
Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan
Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, 2021 Program Co-Chair ACM FAccT, UC San Diego, Communication and Computer Science (Affiliate Faculty)
Lindsay Jamieson, Associate Professor of Computer Science, St.Mary’s College of Maryland
Lindsey Kuper, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
LJean Camp, Fellow of the IEEE; Fellow of the AAAS, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Informatics, Indiana University
Loren Terveen, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of Minnesota
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Professor of Computer Science, Chair in Cybersecurity (Systems Security), King’s College London
Loris D’Antoni, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lorrie Cranor, Bosch Distinguished Professor and FORE Systems Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; ACM, IEEE, AAAS Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Louigi Addario-Berry, Professor, Fellow of the Institute for Matthematical Statistics, Fellow of the Canadian Matthematical Society, Simons Fellow., McGill University
Luca Trevisan, Professor of Computer Science, Bocconi University
Lucy Bernholz, Sr. Research Scholar, Stanford University
LuEttaMae Lawrence, Postdoc Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Lukas Daniel Klausner, Researcher, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Lynn S. Dombrowski, Assistant Professor, IUPUI
Mahdi Cheraghchi, Assistant Professor of CSE, ACM Senior Member, University of Michigan
Mahdi Mirhoseini, Professor of Information Systems, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Mahmood Shafeie Zargar, Assistant Professor of Innovation Management, VU Amsterdam
Maneesh Agrawala, Professor of Computer Science, Director Brown Institute for Media Innovation, MacArthur Fellow, Stanford University
Mar Hicks, Associate Professor of History of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology
Maral Dehghani, Faculty, School of Computing & Academic Studies, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Marc Deisenroth, Professor, University College London
Marjan Farahbod, Simon Fraser University
Martin Joel Strauss, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Maryam Elahi, Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University
Maryam Siahbani, Assistant Prof., University of the Fraser Valley
Mason Kortz, Clinical Instructor, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Masoud Hamedi, Adjunct Professor, Masters in Telecommunications Program, Adjunct Professor
Matin Bagherpour, Associate Professor of Energy Systems, University of Oslo
Matt Windsor, Research Associate, University of York
Matteo Maffei, Professor for Security and Privacy, TU Wien
Matthew Bietz, Lecturer, University of California, Irvine
Matthew Kay, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Maxime Turgeon, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Maziar Goudarzi, Associate Professor, Sharif University of Technology
Mehdi Javanmard, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Mehdi Kargar, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University
mehdi shajari, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University
Mehdi Tahoori, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, IEEE Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Melanie Mitchell, Professor, Computer Science, Portland State University
Michael Ann DeVito, Postdoctoral Computing Innovation Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
Michael Bernstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Michael Cook, Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
Michael Nebeling, Assistant Professor of Information & CSE, University of Michigan
Michael P. Kim, Miller Institute, UC Berkeley
Michael Winikoff, Professor and Head of School, Victoria University of Wellington
Michel Steuwer, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Mike Rosulek, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Milind Kulkarni, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Mohamed Sarwat, Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University
Mohammad Akbarpour, Professor of Economics and (by courtesy) Computer Science, Stanford University
Mohammad Hajiabadi, Assistant Professor of CSE, Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor of CSE, Pennsylvania State University
Mohammad Hajiesmaili, UMass Amherst
Mohammad Heydari, Dr., Research Fellow
Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Mohammad Javad Amiri, Postdoc Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
Mohammad Mahmoody, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
Mohammad Malekzadeh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College London
Mohammad Sadoghi, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Mohammad Shahrad, Lecturer in Computer Science, Princeton University
Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, ACM Fellow, Minker Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
Mohsen Heidari, Postdoc, Purdue University
Mojtaba Azadi, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
Molly H. Olson, Mathematics and Coding teacher, Ely Memorial School
Mona Azadkia, Postdoc, ETH
Morteza Dehghani, Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Southern California
Morteza Rezanejad, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Moslem Habibi, Assistant Professor at Sharif University, Assistant Professor at Sharif University of Technology
Mostafa Milani, Assistant Professor, The University of Western Ontario
Motahhare Eslami, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University
Munmun De Choudhury, Associate Professor of Interactive Computing; 2021 ACM-W Awardee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Murat Demirbas, Professor of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam, Associate Professor, University of Rochester
Myounghoon Jeon, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Nachiket Kapre, University of Aaterloo
Nader Sehatbakhsh, Assistant Professor, UCLA
Naeem Khademi, Assoc. Prof., University of Stavanger
Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Riverside
Nancy Smith, Assistant Professor, School of Information, Pratt Institute
Nanette Veilleux, Professor, Simmons University
Naomi Nishimura, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Nauman Chaudhry, Instructor, Oregon State University
Navid Hashemi, Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Nazanin Andalibi, Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan, School of Information
Nicholas Spooner, Postdoctoral Scholar, Boston University
Nicole Ellison, Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information, University of Michigan School of Information
Nikhil Garg, Postdoc, UC Berkeley
Nikhil Srivastava, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Niklas Elmqvist, Professor of Information Studies and Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
Niloufar Salehi, Assistant professor, UC, Berkeley
Nima Haghpanah, Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University
Nova Ahmed, Associate Professor, North South University, Bangladesh
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Oliver Haimson, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Om Damani, Professor of Computer Science, IIT Bombay
Omid Rohanian, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
Panos Parpas, Reader, Imperial College London
Parisa Rashidi, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Postdoctoral Researcher, KIT
Patricia Garcia, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Paul Dourish, ACM Fellow, Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
Paul H J Kelly, Professor of Software Technology, Imperial College London
Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Associate Professor of Computer Science, IPM
Pernille Bjorn, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Shor, Professor of Mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, Nevanlinna Prize, ACM Fellow, MIT
Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Assistant Professor, TU Delft
Piper Jackson, Assistant Professor of Computing Science, Thompson Rivers University
Pooya Hatami, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Ohio State University
Pooyan Jamshidi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of South Carolina
Priya Kumar, University of Maryland, College Park
R. Benjamin Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Rachit Agarwal, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University
Rad Niazadeh, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Rada Mihalcea, Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science, University of Michigan
Rafael Oliveira, University of waterloo
Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rasit Eskicioglu, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Rasoul Etesami, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rebecca Wright, Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science, Barnard College
Rediet Abebe, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley / Harvard Society of Fellows
Reem Talhouk, Vice chancellor research fellow, Northumbria University
Reihaneh Rabbany, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McGill University
Reva Freedman, Department of Computer Science, Northern Illinois University
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reza Babanezhad Harikandeh, Research Scientist, Research Scientist
Reza Djeddi, Research Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville
Reza Rawassizadeh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Reza Sameni, Associate Professor, Emory University
Reza Zadeh, Adjunct Professor, Stanford and Matroid
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, ACM Fellow, Professor, Northeastern University
Richmond Wong, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Rob Comber, Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Robert Soden, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Roberto Minelli, Ph.D., Software Institute – USI, Lugano, Switzerland
Robin Brewer, University of Michigan, School of Information
Roderic N. Crooks, Assistant Professor of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine., Assistant Professor, UC Irvine Informatics.
Roei Tell, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Ron Eglash, Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Ron Wakkary, Professor (Former Editor-in-Chief ACM interactions 2010-16), Simon Fraser University
Ross Tate, Cornell University
Roya Ensafi, Assistant professor, University of Michigan
Rubén Salvador Perea, CentraleSupélec, IETR Lab
Ryan Cotterell, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich
Sadegh Aliakbary, Faculty member as an assistant professor, Shahid Beheshti University
Sadegh Dalvandi, Research Fellow, University of Surrey
Sajin Koroth, Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University
Salman Beigi, Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
Sam Malek, Professor, University of California, Irvine
Saman Zonouz, Professor, 2019 PECASE Awardee, Rutgers University
Samantha Breslin, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Sameer Singh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Samin Aref, Computer Scientist and Former Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Professor Of computer science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Sara Sartoli, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of North Georgia
Sarah Fox, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Sarita Adve, Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science, Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sarita Schoenebeck, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Saugata Ghose, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Sauvik Das, Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing, Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Scott David Dexter, Professor of Computer Science, Alma College
Sean Farley, Researcher, Argonne National Lab
Sean Munson, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Sean Murthy, Associate Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at Dallas
Sebastian Diaz, Cheif Geek, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Univeristy
Sebastian Schelter, University of Amsterdam
Sepehr Nezami, Postdoctoral researcher, Caltech
Shahin Kamali, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Shahrooz Faghihroohi, Senior Research Scientist
Shaowen Bardzell, Professor, Penn State University
Shayan Oveis Gharan, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Shideh Dashti, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Shimon Edelman, Professor, Cornell University
Shirin Boroushaki, Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Shiva Nejati, Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Siamak F. Shahandashti, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK
Sibin Mohan, Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Siddharth Garg, Associate Professor of ECE, New York University
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Research Director, CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes
Silvia Lindtner, Associate Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, University of Michigan
Simina Branzei, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University
Sina Fazelpour, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Sina Tafazoli, Postdoctoral research associate, Princeton University
Soheil Mohajer, Associatie Professor, University of Minnesota
Sourav S Bhowmick, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University
Stacey Scott, Professor of Computer Science, University of Guelph
Stephen A Cook, ACM Turing Award, University Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Stephen B Gilbert, Director of Human Computer Interaction and Assoc Prof, Iowa State University
Stephen Ramsey, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Steve Easterbrook, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Professor of Robot Learning and Autonomy, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Supratik Chakraborty, Professor, I.I.T. Bombay
Suvrit Sra, Associate Professor, MIT
Suzanne Rivoire, Professor of Computer Science, Sonoma State University
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Taha Yasseri, Associate Professor, Former Turing Fellow, University College Dublin
Talayeh Aledavood, Lecturer in CS, Aalto University
Tara Javidi, Professor of ECE, University of California, San Diego
Tariq, Professors of Computer Sciences, University College of Technology Sarawak
Tawanna Dillahunt, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Tevfik Kosar, Professor, University at Buffalo
Thomas G. Dietterich, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Oregon State University
Tiago Ferreira, Research Assistant, University College London
Tiffany Veinot, Professor of Information and of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan
Timothy M. Pinkston, Ph.D., Professor of ECE, ACM Fellow, University of Southern California
Timur Friedman, Sorbonne Université
Tugkan Batu, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
Valerie Barr, Professor of Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College
Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Professor of Computer Science, University of Lisbon
Vasiliki Kalavri, Assistant Professor, Boston University
Vijay Chidambaram, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Vikram S. Adve, Donald B. Gillies Professor of Computer Science; ACM Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virginia de Sa, Professora, UC San Diego
Wanda Pratt, Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Information School, University of Washington
Wayne Heym, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Wendy Norris, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Nazareth College
Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Professor of computer science, University of Tehran
Yan Chen, Professor of Information, University of Michigan
Yashar Ganjali, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Yasser Roudi, Professor, winner of Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientist Award 2015, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU
Yavar Taheri Yeganeh, Senior Research Assistant, Shahid Beheshti University
Yifan Sun, Assistant Professor, William & Mary
Yvonne Coady, Professor of Computer Science, University of Victoria
Ziawasch Abedjan, Professor of Computer Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Zubair Shafiq, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis

– Academia: Students:

Aakash Gautam, PhD student, Virginia Tech
Abbas K. Rizi, PhD Candidate in CS, PhD Candidate
Abdallah Anees AbuHashem, Master’s Student at Stanford University, Master’s Student at Stanford University
Abduvosid Malikov, Student at MSc Business Analytics, CEU, Student
Abraham Mhaidli, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Abrar Rahman Protyasha, Undergraduate student, University of Rochester
Abtin Afshar, Phd student, Phd student
Adam Suhl, PhD student, UC San Diego
Afsoon Afzal, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Agata Foryciarz, PhD Student, Stanford University
Ahmed Frikha, PhD student, LMU Munich and Siemens
Ahmed, Student, Penn State
Aidin Shiri, Computer Engineer, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Aishwarya Mandyam, PhD Student, Princeton University
Akshay Gopalakrishnan, MSc Thesis
Alejandro Flores-Velazco, PhD Student, University of Maryland, College Park
Alen K. Sabu, Doctoral candidate in Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Alexander Gamero-Garrido, PhD Candidate in Computer Science, UC San Diego
Alexander Hicks, University College London
Ali Farzanehfar, PhD candidate, Imperial College London
Ali Gorji, M.Sc. student, ETH Zurich
Ali Hajiabdi, PhD student, National University of Singapore
Ali Sharafat, PhD Student, Stanford University
Ali Varamesh, PhD cadidate, KU Leuven
Alicia DeVos, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Alireza Sanaee, Mr., Queen Mary University of London
Alyssa Wang, UCLA
Amber Horvath, Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Amin Jabini, PhD student at USC, PhD Student at USC
Amir Khordadi, PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
Amir Shahatit, Software engineer, UC Berkeley
Amirhossein Ghafari, Research Assistant, Student
Amirhossein Rajabi, PhD Candidate in CS, Technical University of Denmark
Anagha Zach, Computer science engineer, Student
Andi Peng, PhD Candidate in CS, MIT
Andrew Hu, PhD Student, Michigan State University
Ángel Alexander Cabrera, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Anja Kalaba, Princeton University
Ankit Pensia, PhD Student, UW-Madison
Anna Fang, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Anna Karanika, PhD student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anna Kawakami, Undergraduate student, Wellesley College
Anne Spencer Ross, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Antares Chen, PhD Student, University of Chicago
Arash Pourhabibi, PhD Candidate, EPFL
Arezou Fatemi, SFU
Argyris Mouzakis, PhD Student, University of Waterloo
Arjun Subramonian, Computer Science Student, University of California, Los Angeles
Artem Pelenitsyn, Northeastern University
Ashkan Kazemi, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Ashkan YekrangSafakar, Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University
Ashwin Rajadesingan, PhD student, University of Michigan School of Information
Ashwin Singh, IIIT Delhi
Atefe Khodadadi, Student, Sharif University of Technology
Atia Hamidizadeh, M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University
Bandar Al-Dhalaan, (none), University of Michigan
Behnam Rahdari, PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh
Behrad Moniri, Student of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Ben Pullman, PhD Candidate, UC San Diego
Benjamin Elizalde, PhD student
Bharat Prakash, PhD Research Assistant, UMBC
Brandon Thai Tran, PhD Student, University of Southern California
Brian Zimmerman, Software Engineer, Graduate Student, Myself
Bryan Wang, PhD student, University of Toronto
Buzz Rankouhi, PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Calvin Liang, University of Washington
Cella Monet Sum, Incoming PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Chloe Kliman-Silver, Postgrad Researcher, Northumbria University
Christian Seitz, PhD student, UCSD
Conlon Novak, DC, SCS ’20
Dana Afazeli, Data scientist, Cs student at sharif university of technology
Daniel Delmonaco, PhD Student, University of Michigan School of Information
Darya Kaviani, Undergraduate, UC Berkeley EECS
David Gray Widder, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Dimitris Karakostas, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
Divine Maloney, PhD candidate, inaugural Ada Lovelace fellow, Clemson University
Divyansh Kaushik, PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University
Dmitrii Ustiugov, PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
Earl W. Huff Jr., Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University
Eliot W. Robson, PhD Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth Resor, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Information
Emad Heydari Beni, PhD candidate, KU Leuven
Emilia Gan, PhD Student, University of Washington
Emily Tseng, PhD Student, Cornell University
Emma Lurie, PhD Student, UC Berkeley School of Information
Emma McDonnell, University of Washington
Emma McKay, PhD student, McGill University
Emmy Cao, UCLA
Evangelia Gergatsouli, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evanjelin Mahmoodi, Computer Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
Farhad Vadiee, PhD student, University of Bergen
Farzin Soleymani, Grad student, Technical University of Munich
Felix Neutatz, PhD student, TU Berlin
Gabriel Grill, PhD Student, University of Michigan
Hafez Ghaemi, Graduate Student, Polytechnic University of Turin
Hamed Javidi, Computer science, Gradute Student
Harjasleen Gulati, CS Student at Oregon State University
Henry Zhu, Ph.D. Student, Stanford University
Hossein Golestani, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Hossein Maleki, Ph.D. Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hossein Moghaddas, Student, Sharif University of Technology
Hünkar Tunç, University of Konstanz
Hye Sun Yun, PhD student, Northeastern University
Ian Haliburton, UCLA
Ihudiya Finda Williams, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Ilir Kola, PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence, Delft University of Technology
J Weston Hughes, PhD Student, Computer Science, Stanford University
Jacob McLemore, PhD Student, The University of Tennessee
Jacob Ritchie, PhD Student, Stanford University
Jan-Oliver Kaiser, MPI-SWS
Jane Im, PhD student, University of Michigan Information & Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Javad Rahimikollu, Graduate Student, Graduate Student
Jeffrey Gleason, Incoming PhD Student, Northeastern
Jessy Ceha, Student, University of Waterloo
Jip J. Dekker, PhD Candidate, Monash University
João Ribeiro, Imperial College London
Jonathan Lu, Medical Student, Goldwater Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine
Jose Guaro, Undergraduate, University of California, San Diego
Josephine Hoy, Graduate Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Julia Cervantes-Espinoza, Educator Advocating CS for All, LAUSD Educator, Advocate of CS for All, EdTech Coach
Julia Len, PhD Student, Cornell University
Julien Gamba, PhD student, IMDEA Networks Institute
Justine Zhang, PhD Student, Cornell University
K.A. Garrett, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Kamen Brestnichki, Machine Learning Scientist, University College London
Kat Roemmich, PhD student, University of Michigan School of Information
Katherine Song, PhD student, UC Berkeley
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Leo Chen, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
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Liz B. Marquis, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information
Lucy Li, PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley
Luke Swanson, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lydia Burger, Undergraduate Student, University of Oklahoma
Lydia Stamato, PhD Student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Negar Khojasteh, PhD Candidate, Cornell University
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Pedram Daee, Aalto University
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Peyman Momeni, Computer Science Graduate Student, University of Waterloo
Pooja Ravi Kulkarni, PhD student at UIUC, UIUC
Psi Vesely, UCSD
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Raiyan Abdul Baten, PhD Student in Engineering, University of Rochester
Ramin Mousavi, PhD candidate, University of Alberta
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Robert P Gauthier, PhD Student, University of Waterloo
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Soheil Changizi, Computer Science Master Student, University of Manitoba
Sohil Vaidya, Graduate Student of Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver
Sophie Huiberts, PhD Candidate, CWI
Steven Rick, PhD Candidate, UC San Diego
Talia Ringer, PhD Student, University of Washington
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Tobby Lie, Student of Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver
Tom Darin, Graduate Student, UCLA
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Václav Rozhoň, PhD Student, ETH Zurich
Vahid Mafi, PhD Candidate, IT Manager, Modares University
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Victoria Dean, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Vishvajeet N, PhD candidate, Rutgers University
Weena Naowaprateep, CSEd Ph.D. Candidate, Mahidol University
Yaghoubi, Neuroscience student, PhD student at McGill University
Yasaman Sefidgar, PhD Student, University of Washington
Yasamin Nazari, PhD student, Johns Hopkins University
Yaser Souri, Ph.D. Student, University of Bonn
Yixin Zou, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Yousof Azizi, PhD Candidate & Lecturer, Virginia Tech School of Public & International Affairs
Yuhao Zhang, PhD Student, UC San Diego
Zahra Tarkhani, University of Cambridge
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Alan Jeffrey, Software Engineer
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Ali Alkhatib, Director, Center for Applied Data Ethics
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Alice Yeh, Technical Program Manager
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Amin Dahesh, Engineering manager at Facebook
Amin Jorati, Applied Scientist
Amir Abdi, Research Engineer, BorealisAi
Amir H Gholamipour, Senior Firmware Engineer, SpaceX
Amir Hossein Ghamarian, Phd
Amir Kiani, Product Manager, Google Inc.
Amir Maleki, Software Engineer, Ansys Inc
Amirhossein Aleyasen, Research Scientist, Datometry
Amirsina Eskandarifar, Data Scientist, Analytics group
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Principal research scientist
Andrew Hill, Data Analyst, National Jewish Health
Anoush Najarian, Software Engineering Manager, Chair of AI Track, GHC (Grace Hopper Celebration), NeurIPS Meetup Chair, MathWorks
Aram Hamidi, Data Scientist, Caltech affiliate via JPL
Arash Iranzad, AI team lead, Ciena
Arash Vahdat, Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Armin Salimi, Ph.D., Natural Resources Canada
Arsham Mostaani, Nokia Bell Labs
Arsia Takeh, Director of Data Science, 1health
Ashkan Balouchi, Vice President, Finance
Asif Hussain Shahid, Software engineer
Azadeh Keivani, Co-founder and CEO, Digital Age Academy
Babak Salamat, Staff Software Engineer, Google
Backsun Sim, Software developer, Job seeker
Bahram Fallah, Compliance Manager, IT Global Environmental Compliance
Bahram Rushenas, Solution Architect
Bashir Sadjad, Senior Software Engineer, Google Canada
Behdad Esfahbod, Software Engineer, –
Behjat Siddiquie, Research Scientist, Amazon
Behnam Anjomruz, Software Engineer
Behnam Neyshabur, Staff Research Scientist, Google
Behnaz Edalat, Software Engineer
Ben Carterette, ACM SIGIR Chair, Research Manager, Affiliated Associate Professor, Spotify / University of Delaware
Bijan azodi, IT manager, IT
Boshra Nabaei, Software engineer, User Testing
Brent Miller, Software Engineer
Burak Emir, Alchemist of Happiness, Google
Carlo Curino, Principal Scientist Manager, Microsoft GSL
Charles C Earl, Data Scientist, Automattic.com
Chetan Ganjihal, AI Architect
Christina Calio, Consultant, Code.org
Cyrus Safaie, Director, Research Science
Cyrus Safaie, Director, Research Science, Convoy
Danial Ehyaie, Entrepreneur and university of Michigan Alumni, PhD University of Michigan
Daniel Khashabi, Young Investigator, Allen Institute for AI
David A. Shamma, ACM Distinguished Member, IEEE Senior Member
David M Neto, Senior Staff Software Developer, Google Canada
David Qorashi, Senior Software Engineer
Dawn Sheirzad, Product Manager
Dean Jansen, Executive Director, Participatory Culture Foundation
Deborah Katz, Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Matthias J. Sax, Software Engineer, Confluent Inc.
Dr. Nima Kaviani, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Dustin Frazier, IT Professional
Ebrahim Songhori, Software Engineer, PhD, Google Inc
Ehsan Amid, Computer Science, PhD
Ehsan Behnam, Applied Scientist, Amazon Inc
Ehsan Iranmanesh, Research Scientist, 1QBit
Ehsan Jahangiri, Sr. Research Engineer, Apple Inc.
Ehsan Kazemi, Research software engineer, Google
Ehsan Keramati, Automation Engineer
Ehsan M. Kermani, Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services
Ehsan Mirsaeedi, Senior Software Engineer
Ehsan Vahedi, Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft
Erfan Sadeqi Azer, PhD of computer science, Indiana University
Etienne Obriot, Technical project manager
Fardin Abdi, Sr. ML Engineer, Pinterest
Fariba Armanfard, Electrical and computer engineer
Farkhan Jamalzadeh, Wireless Network Specialist, Iver Sweden
Fernando Diaz, Research Scientist, Google
Frédéric Dubut, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
Gary Walker, Client Success Manager
Gelareh Manghebati, Barrister & Solicitor, Memorial University of Newfoundland (alumni), University of Manitoba (alumni)
Hadi Partovi, CEO and co-founder, Code.org
Hadi Zarkoob, Senior Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist
Hamdan Azhar, Data Scientist
Hamed Alemohammad, Chief Data Scientist, Radiant Earth Foundation, Radiant Earth Foundation
Hamed Noori, CEO at SenseNet Inc., University of British Columbia
Homayun Afrabandpey, Senior scientist, Nokia Tech.
Hossein Hamooni, Research Data Scientist, Facebook
Houman Kamali, Software Engineer, Rivian
Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Research Scientist, Google Research
Iman Rahmatizadeh, Engineering Manager, Google
James Armontrout, Psychiatrist, Department of veterans affairs / Stanford affiliate faculty appointment
James Davies, Softer Engineer, Imperial College London
Jared Weakly, SWE/SRE
Jeffrey Mogul, Principal Software Engineer, Google
Jennifer Pierre, User Experience Researcher, Google
Jesse Hall, Software Engineer, Google, LLC
Jill Dimond, PhD, Sassafras Tech Collective
Jill Susan Boon, VP, People
Joanne Ma, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley School of Information
Jofish Kaye, ACM Senior Member
John Tang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Jonas Manuel, Software Engineer
Joshua Muskovitz, Software Engineer
Joyojeet Pal, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Jude Nelson, Research Scientist, Stacks Open Internet Foundation
Karthik Ramakrishnan, Director Alexa AI
Kaveh Shahabi, Software Engineer, Google Inc.
Kevin Dean, Software Developer
Kianoosh Mokhtarian, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Kiko Fernandez-Reyes, Software Engineer, Klarna
Lauren Chambers, Staff Technologist, ACLU of Massachusetts
Leigh Yeh, AI Engineer, Beyond Limits
Mahtab Sabet, Software Engineer, Amazon
Manohar Swaminathan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Mariam Asad, PhD, Georgia Tech
Mary L. Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Professor of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, MacArthur Fellow, Microsoft Research and Indiana University
Masoud Loghmani, Product Manager
Masoud Tavazoei, Software Engineer, Stanford Alumni
Masrour Zoghi, Software Engineer, Google Research
Matias Bonaventura, Computer Science PostDoc, UBA-CONICET
Matt Nobar, Product leader
Matthew Reynolds, Computer Scientist, Industry professional
Meghan Combs, Product Manager
Mehdi Aghagolzadeh, Research scientist
Mehdi Noroozi, Researcher, Bosch Center for AI
Mehran Mohtasham, Engineer, Education/Community College
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Mehrtash Babadi, Associate Director of Machine Learning, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Michael Madaio, Postdoctoral researcher, Microsoft Research
Michael Muller, ACM Distinguished Scientist, (a technology company)
Michael Norrish, Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Mike Fulton, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Canada
Mikhail Jacob, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Milad Naseri, Software Engineer, Google
Mina Sedaghat, Senior researcher, Ericsson research, Senior researcher, Ericsson research
Moein Hosseini, Software Engineer
Mohammad Hossein Bateni, Staff Research Scientist, Google
Mohammad Hossein Sedighi Gilani, Data Engineer
Mohammad Mahdian, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research
Mohammad moghadamfalahi, Head of machine learning and algorithms, Liminal sciences
Mohammad Nick, Software Engineer, Zalando SE
Mohammad Norouzi, Research Scientist, Google
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Mohammad Soltani, Director of AI, AI R&D devision
Mohammadali Ghodrat, Software Engineer
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Naser Peiravian, Machine Learning Engineer
Nastaran Bassamzadeh, Data scientist, Amazon
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Nicole Immorlica, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Nishant Subramani, Predoctoral Resident, Intel Labs
Nithya Sambasivan, Staff researcher, Google Research
Oktie Hassanzadeh, Research Scientist, IBM Research
Paige Lowe, Software Engineer, ACM-W NA
Parastoo Geranmayeh, Software Engineer
Parham Pashaei, PhD Candidate. Curriculum Development Lead, Diversifying Talent in Quantum Computing, The University of British Columbia
Parisa Taheri, Product Manager, Microsoft
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Paymon Rokni, Sr. Software Development Manager, Amazon
Pedram, Automation Engineer
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Rad Akefirad, Software Engineer
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Razieh Behjati, Senior Software Engineer, PhD, Google
Reza Arbabi, Director of Software Engineering
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Saeid Rezaei, Hardware Engineer
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Satnam Singh, Software Engineer, Google Research
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Shohreh Shaghaghian, Senior Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters Labs
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Soroosh Yazdani, Software Engineer, Google
Stephanie Chan, Research Scientist, DeepMind
Su Lin Blodgett, Postdoctoral researcher, Microsoft Research
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Tim Prince, Software Engineer
Timnit Gebru, Dr. Researcher
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Vahid Arbab, Data Scientist, Hulu
Vahid Ettehadi, Machine learning scientist
Vahid Hashemian, Software Engineer
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Vasundhara Gautam, Speech Recognition Engineer, Dialpad, Inc.
Victor Zakhary, PhD, Senior Member of technical staff, Oracle
Virginia Grande, PhD candidate, Uppsala University
Wayne W Zachary, PhD, Managing Parter and CEO, Starship Health Technologies LLC
Yasaman Sedaghat, Software Engineer
Yue Feng, Software Engineer
Zahra Nazari, Research Scientist, Spotify
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https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/item/news/6803

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University
Congratulations to Prof. Jeffrey Ullman from Stanford University on winning the Turing prize

6/4/21

Congratulations to Prof. Jeffrey Ullman from Stanford University on winning the Turing prize (joint with Alfred Aho)!
Prof. Ullman received this award, often called the Nobel prize of CS, for his work on fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and others in highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.
Prof. Ullman is also a generous benefactor to our department, and his help is instrumental in providing student stipends, and supporting the Data and Computing Center.

Our heartiest Mazal Tov!

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/iranian-american-group-calls-on-stanford-to-censure-professor/

Iranian-American Group Calls on Stanford to Censure Professor

By Josh KellerJANUARY 5, 2011

An Iranian-American group has asked Stanford University to censure a professor for what it calls “racially discriminatory and inflammatory” comments to an Iranian student who was asking him about admission to Stanford.

The professor, Jeffrey D. Ullman, wrote in an e-mail to a student at Sharif University in Tehran that he could not help the student gain admission to Stanford. “And even if I were in a position to help, I will not help Iranian students until Iran recognizes and respects Israel as the land of the Jewish people,” Mr. Ullman wrote.

The e-mail continued, “If Iranians want the benefits of Stanford and other institutions in the U.S., they have to respect the values we hold in the U.S., including freedom of religion and respect for human rights.”

The group, the National Iranian American Council, cited the e-mail in a letter to Stanford’s president on Monday. In the letter, the group calls on the university to distance itself from the comments and take disciplinary action against the professor. It also objects to a document about Iran and Israel that Mr. Ullman has posted on his faculty Web site.

“Racial and political discrimination such as this surely cannot be compatible with Stanford University’s values,” wrote the group’s policy director, Jamal Abdi. “Does the university not frown on professors making and communicating arbitrary policy decisions reflecting their own politics—and using university-hosted forums to do so?”

A Stanford spokeswoman said on Wednesday that Mr. Ullman has no involvement in the admissions process and that he does not represent Stanford. “He’s expressing his personal opinion and that’s his prerogative,” said the spokeswoman, Lisa Lapin. “We don’t have anything further to say about it.”

In an interview, Mr. Ullman acknowledged writing the e-mail but called the group’s claims “so freaking ridiculous.” He said he was expressing a political view about the actions of the Iranian government, and that Iranians need to know that “nobody’s going to treat them very kindly if the country behaves the way it does.”

He said he should have made it clearer in his e-mail that he was expressing his own view, not an official Stanford policy. “But it should be pretty obvious that I’m not a Stanford admissions officer,” he said.===============================================================================
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Answers to All Questions Iranian

Every few weeks I get an email from someone claiming to live in Iran. They usually have a Hotmail account or Yahoo mail account; some even managed to get a gmail account. They have a question for me, ranging from technical (“Is it true that all grammars can be put in an unambiguous form?”, “Is there a theory that information can be neither created nor destroyed?”) to the political (“Why did the US shoot down an Iranian airliner/take land from Native Americans/Depose Mossadegh, etc. etc.?”, or “How do I justify ‘Zionist crimes’, etc.?”).

I’m not sure why I get these, or whether other academics get them as well. I have a theory that there is a concerted attempt by some Iranian group to probe for friends in the US or elsewhere. I would be interested to know if others have experienced the same sort of email-writing campaign that I have. Possibly, the Article on Fundamentalism that I wrote is circulated in Iran. One correspondent commented “It is well known that I hate Iranians,” even though the article doesn’t mention Iran explicitly, and I actually have no such feelings. I do believe that the fundamentalist government of Iran is a huge problem, both to its own people and to the world. But the people are just fine, when allowed to participate in a free society.

So in order to save everybody a lot of time, I’m going to write down the answers to representative questions.

Question: Can I get into Stanford?

Answer: Probably not. At least I can’t help you. Admissions for undergraduates are not handled by faculty at Stanford or any US school. For graduate work, a committee of faculty and students selects admittees. The process is honest and fair; no faculty member can or would influence the process. See More on the Subject.

Question: Why did the US shoot down an Iranian airliner?

Answer: Did you know that at the time, Iran was threatening US shipping in the Persian Gulf? Were you told that the airliner was not carrying a transponder to identify it, and had taken off from a military airport? When a country such as Iran takes warlike actions, unfortunately mistakes happen. Had you been in command of the American ship involved, you could not have risked a sneak attack and would have done exactly the same thing.

Question: Why did the US take land from the Native Americans?

Answer: Because that’s the way things happen and always have happened. Technologically more advanced civilizations replace less advanced civilizations. I have a question of my own, which none of my Iranian correspondents was willing or able to answer. About 2500 years ago, there was a great Persian civilization. I have a suspicion that the people of Cyrus, Darius, and the other famous Persian kings were not living in Persia from the time of Homo Habilis. Where did the Persians come from, and whom did they replace? And why didn’t they respect the rights of the weaker civilization that was living on the land that is now Iran?

It is striking that Iranians have no trouble pointing to questionable actions of America and the rest of the free world, yet they give themselves, and Islamic terrorists in general, a free pass for much more heinous crimes. As a start, look at the first act of the fundamentalists in Iran: holding hostage the US diplomatic corps. Contrast that blatant violation of international law and tradition with the way America treated Japanese diplomats after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Diplomats were permitted to return home, as we were obliged in 1941 to do, and as Iran was obliged in 1979 to do. To make the contrast more extreme — the Japanese ambassador had been instructed by his government to present a declaration of war an hour before the Pearl-Harbor attack. But he neglected to do so!

Even more telling is the Iranian ranting over the fact that in the recent conflict between Israel and the Iranian-sponsored Hizbollah militia, Israel accidentally killed some civilians that Hizbollah was using as human shields. Yet at the same time, Iran provided missles whose sole purpose was to kill civilians. I think it is time that Iran looked into its own sense of ethics, and cleaned up its own act before presuming to tell the rest of the world about right and wrong.

Question: Why did the CIA depose Mossadegh in 1953?

Answer: As I understand it, Mossadegh nationalized the oil resources that had been developed by US and other Western oil companies. It is an interesting question whether natural resources should belong to the people who accidentally built homes on top of it, or to the people whose technology made it possible to extract those resources. I suspect that in 1953 the answer was clearly the latter, but as time went on, political philosophy went toward the former. Thus, seeing the events of 1953 through modern eyes, it looks different from what it was in its time. Regardless, if a country wants to import technology, as every developing nation should, it has to acknowledge the rule of law and respect its agreements with the companies that supply the technology. The penalty for not doing so is that the country will not have access to technology, and it appears that Iran is suffering from exactly that problem today.

Question: Why didn’t the US stop the Rwandan genocide (or other similar events)?

Answer: Curiously, Iran and many countries object to the US playing “policeman” for the world. Yet alone among countries, the US sometimes uses its resources to help countries when there is no benefit to us whatsoever. There are examples ranging from the Marshall plan in Europe after WW-II, to Kuwait and Kosovo. Where was Iran? Where is everybody now, when Arabs are killing and raping in Darfur?

Question: What do I think of Zionist crimes (sic)?

Answer: If you are referring to the actions of the state of Israel, I don’t see Israel as acting in a criminal way, given the circumstances. Rather, the criminals are Hamas, Hizbollah, and all the other Islamic terrorist groups that intentionally target innocent civilians rather than welcoming Israel into their midst. They could be having the benefits of a neighbor that is adept at modern, Western technology and is generous enough to share its advantages with friendly neighbors. It is not a crime for Israel, or any other country, to defend itself to the maximum extent possible from those sworn to kill its citizens.

I think that Iranians, from their president on down, could use a history lesson. Here are the relevant facts:

Jews have lived in the land that is now Israel for the past 3000 years. However, the Jewish population started to increase in the 1800’s, when Jews bought the land from its owners under Ottoman law. Nothing was stolen, and the influx of Jews was not a result of the Balfour declaration in 1917 or actions of the European powers. In fact, Great Britain acted to keep Jews out of the land of Israel prior to 1948. So when your president rants that the Holocaust was imaginary, tell him that, not only is he wrong, but it doesn’t matter. That is not why Israel exists.
Israel was formed by vote of the UN and has all the legitimacy of any other member of the UN. The notion that Arabs were pushed out of the land of Israel is nonsense. There was an exchange of populations similar to what had happened the year before when India and Pakistan were partitioned. In each case, I am sure that people on both sides chose to move because they preferred to be with their coreligionists. It may be that some of the 700,000 Jews who left Arab lands feared for their safety had they stayed, and it may be that some of the 600,000 Arabs who left Israel believed that they would be harmed if they stayed there. However, it is ridiculous to imagine that the motivations were different for these Arabs from what they were for the Moslems who left India for Pakistan (foolishly, it turns out — a secular, democratic state takes care of its people much better than a theocratic state), or the Hindus who left Pakistan, or the Jews who left Arab lands. The bottom line: there is neither precedent for, nor justification for, the “right of return” of Palestinians to the homes they chose to abandon for foolish reasons.
Immediately after its creation, Israel was attacked by Arab armies from countries 150 times its size. These Arab armies were crushed, and Arab land was lost, resulting in the “1967 borders.”
Although Arabs could have had the 1967 borders any time up to 1967, simply by making peace with Israel, they did not do so. Rather, they kept up terror attacks from wherever they could launch them, and many Israelis were killed by Nobel Laureate Yasser Arafat and his crew. It is important to bear this fact in mind, when you hear apologists for terror saying that it is justified by the fact that Israel won’t return to its 1967 borders. The real reason for the terror is that Islamic fundamentalists cannot accept a non-Moslem state in territory they fantacize belongs to them.
After 1967, Arabs attacked again in 1973 and were again beaten back. Over the past 20 years terrorist groups have launched several campaigns against Israel, and have had to be beaten back by attacking where they live. Like the cowards of Hizbollah, they hide behind their own children and their neighbors’ children in order to make it appear that it is the Israelis who are committing crimes. However, if you think about it, there is no other possible response to terrorists who hide among civilians (negotiating with terrorists just guarantees that the more vicious and irresponsible a group behaves, the more power it has to influence events). It is the responsibility of those around them to round them up and control them. If not, one should never blame the victim of terror for fighting back in the only way victims of this “asymmetric warfare” can.

So instead of crying about “Zionist crimes,” I strongly recommend that our Iranian friends look into the crimes of the Islamists among them and the Islamists that Iran sponsors.

Question: Why won’t Israel compromise?

Answer: I never did find out what sort of compromise this questioner had in mind, but the answer is that of course Israel will compromise. In the year 2000, Israel offered to give back 98% of what the Arabs had lost in 1967. However, the compromise should take into account the three generations of hostility that has come from Israel’s neighbors, and the fact that Israel has been victorious in all these actions. The proper comparison is what happened after World Wars I and II (or any other major war, I would imagine). The victor gets to determine the compromise. Look at what happened to Germany. They shrunk after WW-I and again after WW-II. But what remains is a prosperous, proud country. Look what happened to Japan after WW-II. They lost territory too, but came to be a dominant economic power.

I cannot speak for Israel, but I strongly believe that if the Arabs would offer a settlement that gave Israel a little extra land in compensation for the repeated aggressions of Arabs, and if the Islamic community would sincerely agree to drop the idea that there is something wrong with a democratic, non-Moslem state in the Middle East, then I think the rewards would actually flow to the Arab neighbors. Germany and Japan are excellent examples of what could happen. But while Germany and Japan had their own technology base on which to build after WW-II, in the case of Israel and its neighbors, the Israeli technology base would prove an added benefit to the Arabs. One of the great shames of Islamic fundamentalism is that it neglects to develop a technologically capable population. In the modern world, the benefits of “keeping up” are enormous. Israel could help its neighbors catch up with all the third-world countries that are now beginning to grow modern economies. But the choice is with the Moslem world: continue to wallow in self-pity, while patting yourselves on the back for your “piety,” or realize that the world today is not the world of Mohammed, and you need to throw off the yoke of religious extremism and get to work.

Question: Do I think Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons?

Answer: Of course. The proof is that oil-fired power plants are much safer than nuclear plants, as we saw at Chernobl, just to mention the most devastating case. Iran has plenty of oil and does not need to take the risk of developing nuclear power plants.

Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons puts into clear focus the foolishness of the mullahs who rule the country. When the Shah was calling the shots, he spent oil money to send Iran’s best and brightest to the US for a technical education. As soon as the mullahs took over, that all stopped, and Iran has done nothing to build a modern technology-based economy the way so many countries have done with a boost from US education. Unlike many of these countries, which are not blessed with copious oil revenue by the way, Iran has spent its money on incredibly stupid projects. Every Iranian must realize that should they ever build and use a nuclear weapon, the country would be obliterated in the next hour. So nuclear weapons will not enable you to be taken seriously on the world stage; only a strong technology base and an inventive people who contribute solutions to the great problems of the day can do that.

Perhaps worse, what money you are not spending on nuclear-weapons development is being spent equally unwisely. Recall the Chinese proverb about “give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach him to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What you are doing is definitely giving out fish. As mentioned above, you are failing to invest in the best available education for your brightest citizens. Worse, look at how you spend your money in Lebanon, and to an extent Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. You hand out charity to let Islamic fundamentalist parties gain supporters, but you never do anything to educate these people or help make them self-sufficient. You give them expensive missles to commit murder. Then, when their nonsense backfires (and even Nasrallah has admitted he made a big mistake), you throw more money at them to clean up the destruction, all the time claiming it is Israel’s fault for defending itself. No; it is your fault for choosing to start trouble with the very money that could have meant a better life for the poor of Iran or — should you choose to donate some of the money — poor people in places like Lebanon.

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Response to the Open Letter from CSForInclusion to the Committee of the ACM A.M. Turing Award and ACM

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Even with the best of intentions, however, the processes in place may not always guarantee we explicitly consider these goals in every step or action ACM takes. When we become aware of the need to improve processes, we do it. The Statement on the Selection of Jeffrey Ullman for a Turing Award affords such an opportunity by raising two important issues for ACM regarding our commitment to core values and ethical and professional behavior in the ACM awards program. We address these issues below.

Report on the specifics surrounding this nomination, especially the extent of checks and balances that are in place to ensure that the process of awarding the highest distinction in computing is protected against violations of the ACM mission and its core values.

Response: ACM, the ACM Awards Committee Co-Chairs, and the ACM Turing committee members first became aware of the statements of Jeffrey Ullman when the social media discussion began after the 2020 A. M. Turing Award was announced. As part of the Awards process, ACM routinely checks whether we have received any complaints about award nominees with respect to ACM’s Code of Ethics or other policies. In this case, we determined that no complaints had ever been filed against Jeffrey Ullman. ACM also relied on the submitted nomination package and carefully evaluated the letters provided by the nominator and the endorsers to assess the candidate’s worthiness for an award. No red flags were raised in the nomination package.
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About this captureIf you are reading my pages with an eye to engaging in the NIAC vendetta, please be advised that I will not read your email, but I will archive it in case I decide later that I need to take legal action or turn the matter over to the police.

Also, please read the document carefully, and do not take Mr. Hojabri’s bizarre interpretation seriously. In particular, I have been accused of “racism” on the basis of my document, which is an absurd conclusion. Rather, as my email mentioned by Hojabri stated, I would (hypothetically) elect not to help a student from Iran gain admission to Stanford ahead of more qualified students, were such a thing possible (which it is not). It is my choice, after all, and my reasons are purely political. I suspect that many NIAC members boycott Israeli products, regardless of whether the manufacturer supports the present Israeli government (and they act in the real world, not my hypothetical world). Are they guilty of racism?

To make Mr. Hojabri’s misreading of my article even more ridiculous, the end of the second paragraph clearly states my admiration for Iranian students I have known at Stanford. Stanford policy, as well as my own ethics, dictates that all Stanford students in my classes or who come in contact with me in any way are treated in a uniform matter. In fact, when I grade my class, I do so from a spreadsheet that omits names, leaving only scores. That protects me from inadvertently downgrading a student for any reason (e.g., they’ve been obnoxious in class), not just their race, gender, or ethnicity.=============================================
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About this captureThere is apparently a group on Facebook, the redundantly named “National Iranian-American Council” (NIAC), that has started a vendetta against me. I’m not on Facebook, so I can’t see for certain, but here’s an excerpt from my Wikipedia page as of 5:39PM Tuesday the 5th of January, 2011. There is apparently one of these little wars in cyberspace going on, where part of NIAC’s game is to edit in ridiculous accusations about what I said or believe, so if you view the page, you might get something entirely different. The following was apparently written by a member of a group that endeavors to monitor the activities of NIAC, and I appreciate their support.

In 2011, Ullman has come under fire for making allegedly discriminatory, anti-Iranian remarks through email correspondence and web postings, as was the opinion of the bullying group NIAC (National Iranian American Council).

In one email to an Iranian graduate student, the professor responded to an inquiry about admission to his department saying, “Even if I were in a position to help, I will not help Iranian students until Iran recognizes and respects Israel as the land of the Jewish people.” The professor went on to write, “If Iranians want the benefits of Stanford and other institutions in the US, they have to respect the values we hold in the US.” (See http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/iranian.html)

The professor’s courageous public Stanford website includes a page entitled “Answers to All Questions Iranian,” in which he expresses his political views on questions such as why the US shot down an Iranian airliner in the 1988 or why the CIA deposed Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. The page, written as a series of questions from Iranians with answers from the professor that he receives repeatedly via email, also includes the question, “Can I get into Stanford?” with the honest response, “Probably not. At least I can’t help you. Admissions for undergraduates are not handled by faculty at Stanford or any US school. For graduate work, a committee of faculty and students selects admittees. The process is honest and fair; no faculty member can or would influence the process.”

Iranian Americans, notably Dr. Fredun Hojabri, the former Professor and Academic-Vice Chancellor of Sharif university of Technology, have raised the situation with Stanford in public without discussing this with Ullman first in a bullying campaign. NIAC condemned the allegedly “racially discriminatory and inflammatory public communications” in a letter to Stanford’s president in public. The National Iranian American Council called for Stanford, which is home to a large population of Iranian and Iranian-American students, to clarify the university’s position regarding the remarks and to take disciplinary measures, without first talking to Ullman.

Apparently much of the fuss has centered around the possibility that I was, in the quoted email about “If Iranians want the benefits…,” speaking for Stanford. It is an absurd conclusion, given that I also comment on “all US institutions,” and surely no one believes I speak for the entire academic community. However, I probably should have prefixed the comment with “in my opinion.” Emails are written quickly, and it is incredibly silly for the NIAC people to react this way without even asking what I meant.

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Some Thoughts on the Bombings of Sept. 11

Jeffrey D. Ullman — 10/30/01; later additions

Like everyone, I’ve been quite affected by the attacks apparently perpetrated by fundamentalists on 9/11/01. I’d like to set down a few thoughts, none of which are remarkable or original, but I’ll feel better putting them in print. Feel free to email me with your own point of view on the various subjects covered below. However, be warned that I reserve the right to make your email available on the Web, link to it, and comment upon it.

1. Fundamentalism

Just prior to the millenium, I was polled by a magazine about a number of questions I really couldn’t answer, like what will the world be like in 1000 years? The one question to which I felt I could respond was “What is the greatest danger in the world today?” My answer: Fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism is a belief that the world is not complex, but really simple if you follow the simplistic ideas of the group at hand. Many religions foster a fundamentalist offshoot; it’s not an Islamic thing. In fact, it’s not always a religious thing, and we see fundamentalism in various guises. It is always characterized, as the name implies, by a set of assumptions that are not open to debate and that trump all other concerns. The most insidious of these assumptions is that there is a supreme being who believes and wishes exactly what the fundamentalist group in question believes. You can’t argue with them, you can’t reason with them, and if you disagree with them, they have a “big brother” who will beat you up.

Right now, the Islamic fundamentalists have center stage. But we should never forget that there are other fundamentalist groups out there, such as the Christian fundamentalists in the US or the ultra-orthodox Jewish fundamentalists. And while they differ on their fundamental, nonnegotiable views of the world, they each claim a right to impose their simplistic view on the general population, without the normal constraints, such as respect for life, that apply to people without an imagined mandate from some god. Notice that the anti-abortion fundamentalists share with the perpetrators of the bombings of Sept. 11 a willingness to kill and to bomb, e.g., abortion clinics. Yes, I know that in each case, it is only a small minority of the adherents who kill. But in each case the fundamental assumptions, and the assumed undeniability of those assumptions, are used to justify murder.

In fact, the second most disgusting story of the week of Sept. 11 was Jerry Falwell announcing that the bombings were really a punishment from his god for our tolerance of people or positions he disagrees with, such as feminism or homosexuality. Nice going, Jerry. Thanks for reminding us that the healthy feeling of unity and solidarity among all kinds of Americans doesn’t apply to people who don’t meet your Procrustean standard of permissible behavior.

Even those fundamentalists who do not consider murder an appropriate method of carrying out their god’s wishes commit a crime of a more subtle nature. They limit the options their children have to create their own lives and to choose their own futures. (Thanks to my wife Holly for pointing out what should have been obvious to me.) The Taliban makes sure that women receive no useful education; so do the Jewish ultra-orthodox. Christian fundamentalists are big on “home-schooling,” to make sure their children are not exposed to ideas with which they disagree. To be honest, I am uncertain how one goes about assuring that children have opportunities. There are great dangers in having a state decide the set of ideas to which children need to be exposed. However, I also believe that the only long-term solution to the scourge of fundamentalism is broad educational opportunities and exposure of all children everywhere to the mix of possible ways to view a complex world.

Added 8/2/04: It’s been almost 3 years, and our President has evidently not yet seen the contradiction of fighting Islamic fundamentalism on one hand and leaping into bed with Christian fundamentalists on the other. In addition to muddling the war on terrorism, he has continued to support the Christian-fundamentalist agenda against abortion, gay marriage, and most ludicrously against stem-cell research. His lack of thought and reasoning points up another common property of fundamentalisms: they are frequently based on an interpretation of ancient text written by someone who could not possibly understand modern issues. Moreover, this interpretation is often the work of a modern “thinker” with an ax to grind. Ask yourself realistically: what would Moses have thought of stem-cell research? Did Jesus think that cold callers could enter the kingdom of heaven? What part of a spammer’s anatomy would Mohammed have advised cutting off? The answer, of course, is that none of these guys had any clue about these or other issues that have surfaced since they wrote. Unfortunately, we have in the United States today a leadership that fantacizes answers to these questions based on the writings of people who had no clue about the questions, let alone the answers.

2. Recommended Reading

A few weeks ago, we were cleaning house and a book called Big Trouble by Dave Barry surfaced. Barry’s books are very funny, so I read it. As soon as I finished, I learned that it was about to be released as a movie. But it’s never going to play in theaters, at least not for quite a while. However, I recommend the book highly, even if it does include episodes such as bad guys taking a nuclear weapon through an airport security check by waiting while all the guards converge on a businessman carrying a laptop.

Added 4/12/02: The movie has reemerged, although I have not seen it. I’m willing to bet that they redid it to soft-peddle Barry’s satire of the foolish security guards that concentrate on people that are obviously not the problem.

3. The Palestinians

Will the Palestinians finally forsake terror as a political approach and start building both better lives for themselves and a better relationship with their Israeli neighbors? We should not forget that Israel, a country with about 1.5% of the US population, suffers due to terrorist attacks a proportional World-Trade-Center bombing every 3 months. Somehow the world largely failed to notice or care, or equated random acts against civilians with carefully targeted military action. Suddenly the world comprehends that the Israeli approach to fighting terror is not a defect of character but is the only possible response other than surrender.

Let’s remember that the last attempt to build a peace fell apart when, after being given essentially everything they want short of the dismantling of the Jewish state, the Palestinian side suddenly demanded that millions of their number be allowed to live in Israel itself. A few historical facts and comparisons:

The Palestinian refugees fled Israel in 1948 as the result of a war imposed on Israel by six or seven Arab neighbors, with 150 times the population. The Arabs at that time not only failed to drive the Jews out, but they lost ground, and the “refugees” voluntarily fled from the ground they lost. Arabs have chosen to keep these people in camps as a festering sore.
At the same time, a roughly equal number of Jews fled from Arab lands to Israel. In contrast, these refugees were welcomed and integrated into the new state. No Arab state has offered any compensation for the property they lost.
Additional territory was lost in 1967, when Egypt blockaded the Israeli port of Eilat and Syria bombarded Israel from the Golan Heights, leading to an Israeli response that put an end to both these aggressions.
Compare the situation when India and Pakistan were divided. There, 40,000,000 people moved across the border to the side they preferred. All were accommodated on “their” side and not used as hostages by their own people to support territorial claims on the other side.
Added 5/11/02: Another interesting comparison is with what happened between Greece and Turkey in 1922. The Greeks suddenly had to resettle 1.5 million people, and did so without using them as hostages for political gain. An old friend has written an Account of the Events as told to him by his Mother, who was one of those relocated. Added 4/2/05: I received an email from Okan Kolak, a student at U. Maryland, who points out that there were also half a million refugees from Greek lands who suddenly had to resettle in Turkey. It was never my intent to suggest that the problem was one-sided. My informant tells me that the Turkish refugees were also “assimilated into the general population over time.” Again, there was no notion of “right of return,” a concept that seems unique to the Palestinians, among all historially known resettlements of refugees.
Added 9/16/02: I was reading The Middle East by Bernard Lewis (Simon and Schuster, 1995), and he tells what happened in the early days of the Islamic Jihad. The conquering Arabs took the land all over the Middle East from its rightful owners. They also took the women, and largely bred out of existence the indigenous populations. This is the land that Palestinians now protest so vehemently belongs to them, rather than the people their ancestors took it from.
Mr. bin Laden and other pro-Arab polemicists would have you believe that the land of Israel is really “Islamic territory” stolen by the Jews. The fact is that in the mid 19th century, the land was essentially unpopulated desert. Of the people living there, a substantial portion were Jews, as had been the case throughout recorded history with a few brief periods when Jews were evicted by the Babylonians, and then the Romans. In mid 19th century, European Jews, bringing the best agricultural technology of the day bought land from its rightful owners, and proceeded to reforest the land and to create agricultural settlements. These developments brought an influx of Moslems into the land, especially after the famine of 1905. It is mostly the descendants of these immigrants who are portrayed by the anti-Israel forces as the “original inhabitants of the land.” It ain’t so.

So here’s what I hope could happen:

Mr. Arafat gets serious about controlling the criminals in his own country, and prevents them from attacking another. He rearrests the known terrorists whom he let out of jail to further his chosen brand of “warfare.”
He accepts the consequences of two generations of mismanagement of the refugees and of the Arab relationship with Israel, and does not expect more than other states have gotten in similar circumstances.
The quarter of a billion dollars under the control of Mr. bin Laden is identified and turned over to the Palestinians, to start building a new life for these unfortunates. Build a few chip plants. Or how about a few universities that compare to the Israeli schools, to create a population that sustains a prosperous country? And how about big contributions from the Saudis and other oil kingdoms, and from all the Arab countries that allowed the Palestinians to fester in their “refugee camps,” both before and after they fell under Israeli control?

4. Avoid a Two-Front War

I predict that the “war on drugs” is going to get in the way of the war on terrorism. For a simple example, the first time I traveled to Israel, I was surprised when check-in included a search of my bags. It was explained that they were not looking for drugs or import violations, and even if they found such, they would not report it or make note of it. They did, however, demand to search for the sole purposes of security.

For another example: poppies are a principal crop of Afghanistan. If we want the friendship of the typical Afghani — and I hope our leaders realize that we can’t possibly win the war without winning friends — we can’t also try to eradicate a major source of their wealth. We can deal with the problem at the consumption end if we must, but let’s not get confused where our real interests lie. Aside Re Drugs. Added 4/12/02: Well the war in Afghanistan turned out better than I would have expected. The city folks, at least, seemed genuinely happy to be rid of the fundamentalist regime. But wouldn’t you know it — with all the other problems the Karzai government is facing, they have to start arresting the poppy farmers. I suspect US pressure is behind it; Hamid Karzai comes across as a pretty sensible guy. I have an idea. Leave the Afghani farmers alone, let them earn a little hard currency, and start arresting tobacco farmers in North Carolina instead. They sell a substance that is far more deadly, and they export their trouble around the world. (Thanks to Stu Reges for making me see the contradiction between how we treat the tobacco industry and the “drug” industry.)

The new issue is with the obvious need for integrating information sources of all kinds, such as credit-card and bank transactions, phone calls, enrollments in flight schools, purchases of crop-dusting equipment and a million things I can’t think of that, in the hands of a skilled analyst, could pinpoint a terror plot. However, in order to justify this step as a war measure, we need to make sure it is never used to track drug dealers, or develop evidence of infidelity, embezzlement, or any other crime that is not an act of war against this or another country. Apparently the Israelis have managed to keep the two separate, and we can too, if we have the will to do so. Added 5/14/02: It’s as bad as I feared. Dionne Warwick was busted at a security checkpoint for carrying marijuana in a lipstick case (note to self: find out why her “psychic-friends” network didn’t warn her). And a guy carrying grass was caught and claimed (falsely) that he had a knife. So what do our defenders of public safety and morality do? They shut down the terminal for three hours and rescreened everyone. “Procedures,” apparently.

Modern technology has given criminals and terrorists many new and deadly options. Just about the only defensive weapon to come out of the developments of the past 50 years is information technology: our ability to learn electronically what evils are being planned. If we use it wisely, we can keep our personal freedom, yet use information effectively against its enemies.

5. Battle of the Nephews

Added 4/12/02: I heard the following story after writing the original article. It’s hard to know what to make of it, but it is sufficiently weird I think it’s worth telling.

I have a nephew who went to a toney eastern college. He somehow got in with a bad crowd — conservatives who are as foolish for trying to steal our freedom to act as the liberal “political correctness” gang is for trying to control what we are permitted to say or think. Anyway, my Nephew wrote an article for the campus conservative magazine several years ago, advocating the profiling of Arab men at airport security checks.

This article caused a great hue and cry on campus. So great was the righteous indignation that the campus administrators did the only thing a politically correct campus administration could do: they closed down the conservative magazine.

Now here’s the funny part. Who was the leader of the voices raised against my Nephew’s improper thought? Ans.: One of the many nephews of Osama bin Laden.

6. Definition of Terrorism

Added 4/13/02: I received a number of emails arguing that US bombing in Afghanistan, which had the unfortunate effect of sometimes accidentally hitting civilians, or what Israel does to root out terrorists in the Palestinian territories, again sometimes killing civilians among which the terrorists hide, were themselves forms of terrorism. Nope; it ain’t, but the difference is remarkably subtle. Here’s my theory why the killers of 9/11, or the Palestinian suicide/homicide bombers, are different.

First, while it is far from obvious, organized (i.e., nonterrorist) warfare has a peculiar benefit. While our attention gets fixed on the times when nations go to war and on all the stupid devastation that results, we don’t notice the times that the “warfare process” causes a resolution of disputes without bloodshed. That is, there must be far more times when diplomats looked at what the capabilities of the other side were and decided not to go to war, but to resolve the question in the favor of the side that would have won anyway. Curiously, “lesser” species seem to have a better grasp of this idea than we do. It is quite normal for, say, two moose to resolve a dispute by batting horns, and the loser winds up with a headache, instead of dead, as they would if the combat continued to its natural conclusion.

Humans do a certain amount of this demonstrating as well. The USSR was fond of parading its missiles through Moscow, not because everyone loves a parade, but because it reminded other nations of the outcome of attack. The tragedies come when one side does not see the logical outcome of war, which is why making capabilities clear saves lives.

The great flaw of terrorism is that by its nature there can be no posturing, no demonstration of capabilities, no opportunity for two states to consider who could perform the most violent terrorist acts against the other. For example, you may have many suicide/homicide bombers already brainwashed and ready for action. But you can’t parade them through Ramallah. Anybody could dress up carrying real explosives around their waist pretending to be willing to carry out an act of terrorism, but you wouldn’t believe they represented a threat until the threat was carried out.

Thus, while conventional warfare gives the sides an option of reasoning out what the result of war would be, terrorism leaves the combatants with only one option: go at it until one is wiped out. Notice what happened in Israel when the Palestinians demonstrated their misunderstanding of this point. They caused the deaths of many innocent victims, and at the present time they are learning what the only outcome can be: tit-for-tat killings. I wish the Palestinian leaders had been able to think clearly about the inevitable outcome of their choice, and taken the very generous deal that Barak offered them almost two years ago. But I can only grieve for the innocents who never had the opportunity to tell Mr. Arafat not to kill in their name, and who became the victims of the inevitable reprisals caused by terrorism.

7. Report on a Year’s Worth of Comments

Added 9/16/02: I received a number of emails from people who read this article during the first year. Not surprisingly, they were, as far as I can tell, all from Computer Scientists, since no one else would have found it. (Google still lists no links to this document other than from my home page.) The responses generally fell into three categories:

All fundamentalists except my kind of fundamentalist are wrong, so you should change your article to exempt my group.
You are a Zionist pig, and how dare you say all those nasty things about Yasser Arafat et al.
How dare you criticize anti-abortionists.

The first group were typically Jewish ultra-orthodox. For example, one said of my comments that fundamentalists share a common disrespect for the lives of those who disagree with them: “you can’t find any quote or action of any ultra-orthodox person ever suggesting that anybody’s life should be taken in different circumstances than (sic.) the circumstances in which secular individuals would generally justify it.” Well it is true that the Islamic fundamentalists are in a class by themselves in this matter, but I recall living in Jerusalem in 1984, when the ultra-orthodox were throwing rocks through the windshields of cars that drove on the sabbath. They didn’t appear to concern themselves whether they caused an accident that killed the driver, or perhaps some innocent child.

In the second category, the following remark, edited only to correct grammar and spelling, stands out for its subtlety: “if any one believes in what you said, I will call him the most arrogant idiot ignorant Zionist extremist, and racist I have ever seen.” The gentleman was at least polite enough to allow me the “out” of admitting that I didn’t really mean anything I said in this article. This same fellow admonished me to (again, grammar and spelling edited) “Stop using your university resources to impose your political opinions because it is against the constitution to do so.” Apparently this fellow was in the US for some time and was teaching a course at a university, but a few basic concepts of how a democracy works had eluded him.

My favorite of the third category was a fellow who tried to resurrect the old argument that I think was due to Pascal (who when he wasn’t busy inventing programming languages, tried to prove the existence of God). It says basically, that if you follow what he perceives as God’s law — in this case, outlawing abortion — then your downside is limited: a few women have to deal with children they don’t want (his view, not mine). But if you flout God’s law, then the risk is infinite. In Pascal’s terms it was eternal damnation, while in the terms of my correspondent, it was the loss of millions of the souls of fetuses. The fallacy in this sort of argument is that it can apply to absolutely any idea. If God turns out to be a giant chicken, then I would impair my immortal soul to eat at KFC. Are you willing to risk it? As always, its people with these unalterable and undebatable ideas that want you to consider their theology as special and unique.

And curiously, no one was willing to put their arguments in a document that I could link to, although several wanted me to add their thoughts to my own document, which I ain’t gonna do.

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https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dolev/scharf.html

October 2006

Prof. Jeffrey and Holly Ullman,
decided to support our Computer Science Department

Professor Jeffrey (Stanford University, CA) and Holly Ullman,
in consultation with Professor Shlomi Dolev (BGU),
recently established the Martha and Solomon Scharf Prize
for Developing Excellence in Computer, Communications and
Information Sciences, supporting excellent students.
In addition they will support research activity in the computer science disciplines.

Associates of the Iranian Regime Target Prof. Jeffrey Ullman the 2020 Turing Award Winner for his Pro-Israel Views

ACM Turing Award Honors Innovators Who Shaped the Foundations of Programming Language Compilers and Algorithms

Columbia’s Aho and Stanford’s Ullman Developed Tools and Fundamental Textbooks Used by Millions of Software Programmers around the World