Program Purpose
The Mission of the Distinguished Speakers Program
The DSP is an outreach program of ACM that brings distinguished speakers from academia, industry, and government to give presentations to ACM chapters, members, and the greater IT community in a variety of venues and formats.
The History of the Distinguished Speakers Program
The Distinguished Speakers Program has been in existence for over twenty years. Traditionally, the program was comprised of speakers from academe that traveled to individual ACM chapters and larger, regional "magnet events" to deliver lectures on their field(s) of expertise. A core group of lecturers would commit to serve for one year, with the option to stay on. Now, a speaker is given a 3 year term. ACM headquarters reimbursed lecturers for their travel expenses; chapters were responsible for local expenses. In this way it served as indirect financial support for chapters, especially those struggling with access to quality content and speakers.
In recent years, the program has been almost exclusively marketed to, and used by, student chapters, with positive feedback from both students and speakers. Recognizing the potential for the DSP to serve as a premier outreach program for all ACM chapters and members, the Membership Services Board created a committee in 2005 to review the current program and to set goals for expanding its size and scope.
The newly reconstituted committee updated the program's topic categories based on feedback from different constituencies, including ACM members, student and professional chapters, Special Interest Groups, and ACM Board Chairs. With an updated topic listing in place, recruitment began for new speakers, from academe, industry, and government.
The Distinguished Speakers Program has always operated in the spirit of service and outreach. Its goals are to provide some of the best content ACM has to offer through its network of high quality speakers and to facilitate professional networking. The committee is still accepting nominations for speakers. If you know someone who would like to participate, or you yourself would like to participate, please see our nomination form.
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Computing Topic
- Applied Computing
- Architecture, Embedded Systems and Electronics, Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural language processing
- Computational Theory, Algorithms and Mathematics
- Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Hardware, Power and Energy
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information Systems, Search, Information Retrieval, Database Systems, Data Mining, Data Science
- Networks and Communications
- Security and Privacy
- Society and the Computing Profession
- Software Engineering and Programming
- Web, Mobile and Multimedia Technologies
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Speakers By Name
- Haider Abbas Islamabad, Pakistan
- Siddhant Agarwal Bengaluru, India
- Mohiuddin Ahmed Perth, WN, Australia
- Rizwan Ahmed Nagpur, India
- Naveed Akhtar Perth, WN, Australia
- Mohammed M. Alani Mississauga, ON, Canada
- Mamoun Alazab Bayview, ACT, Australia
- Enrique Alba Malaga, Spain
- Dan Alistarh Klosterneuburg, Austria
- PARAMESHACHARI B D Mysore, India
- Ronald Michael Baecker Toronto, ON, Canada
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates Palo Alto, CA, United States
- Santhosh Kumar Balan Hyderabad, India
- Emery D Berger Amherst, MA, United States
- Tarek R. Besold Barcelona, Spain
- Athman Bouguettaya Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Stephen Brewster Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Erik Brunvand UT, United States
- Margaret Burnett Corvallis, OR, United States
- Zehong (Jimmy) Cao Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Federico Cerutti Brescia, Italy
- Sharma Chakravarthy Bedford, TX, United States
- Polo Chau Atlanta, GA, United States
- Geeta Chauhan Santa Clara, CA, United States
- Abbas Cheddad Karlskrona, Sweden
- Albert M. K. Cheng Houston, TX, United States
- Aswani Kumar Cherukuri Vellore, India
- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo San Antonio, TX, United States
- Luigina Ciolfi Cork, Ireland
- Gilbert Cockton Sunderland, United Kingdom
- Benjamin Richard Cowan Dublin, Ireland
- Rik Das Ranchi, India
- Gianluca Demartini Queensland, Australia
- Ilke Demir Hermosa Beach, CA, United States
- Henry Duh Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Schahram Dustdar Vienna, Austria
- Ashutosh Dutta Laurel, MD, United States
- Josiah Dykstra Severn, MD, United States
- Mohamed Elhoseny Mansoura, Egypt
- Bjoern M Eskofier Erlangen, Germany
- Xiangmin Fan Beijing, China
- Francesco Flammini Västerås, Sweden
- Ujwal Gadiraju Delft, Netherlands
- Dan Garcia Millbrae, CA, United States
- Swaroop Ghosh State College, PA, United States
- Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez Tempe, AZ, United States
- Donald Gotterbarn Johnson City, TN, United States
- Nitesh Goyal Stamford, CT, United States
- Giancarlo Guizzardi Bolzano, Italy
- Kiran Gunnam Milpitas, CA, United States
- Zhu Han Houston, TX, United States
- Faraz Hasan Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Gernot Heiser Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Juan Pablo Hourcade Iowa City, IA, United States
- Longbo Huang Beijing, China
- Nikolas Ioannou Zurich, Switzerland
- Celestine Iwendi Uppsala, Sweden
- Letizia Jaccheri Trondheim, Norway
- Sheldon H Jacobson Urbana, IL, United States
- Alec Jacobson Toronto, ON, Canada
- Jim Jansen Doha, Qatar
- Muhammad Awais Javed Islamabad, Pakistan
- Anura Jayasumana Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Gwanggil Jeon Incheon, Republic of Korea
- Alireza Jolfaei Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Joaquim A Jorge Lisboa, Portugal
- Latifur Rahman Khan Plano, TX, United States
- Wajahat Ali Khan Derby, United Kingdom
- Asad Masood Khattak Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Charalambos Konstantinou Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Aditya Kumar San Jose, CA, United States
- Minming Li Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Antonio Lieto Turin, Italy
- Sung Kyu Lim Suwanee, GA, United States
- Zitao Liu Beijing, China
- Seng Loke Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Andrés Lucero Helsinki, Finland
- Artur Lugmayr Perth, WN, Australia
- Zhihan Lv Qingdao, China
- Lauren Maffeo Bethesda, MD, United States
- A. Cristiano I. Malossi Rüschlikon, Switzerland
- Maja Mataric´ South Pasadena, CA, United States
- Ujjwal Maulik Kolkata, India
- John McCarthy Cork, Ireland
- Weizhi Meng Copenhagen, Denmark
- Ajmal Saeed Mian Crawley, WN, Australia
- Sanjay Misra Lagos, Nigeria
- David Mohaisen Orlando, FL, United States
- Koushik Mondal Dhanbad, India
- Nour Moustafa Canberra, ACT, Australia
- San Murugesan Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Suranga Chandima Nanayakkara Auckland, New Zealand
- Joanna Isabelle Olszewska Cheltenham, United Kingdom
- Kayal Padmanandam Hyderabad, India
- Themis Palpanas Paris, France
- Sanjaya Kumar Panda Warangal, India
- Sudeep Pasricha Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Zeeshan Pervez Paisley, United Kingdom
- Junaid Qadir Doha, Qatar
- M. Sohel Rahman Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Ebin Deni Raj Pala, Kottayam, India
- Nitendra Rajput Gurgaon, India
- Sakthivel Ramachandran VELLORE, India
- Lakshmana Kumar Ramasamy COIMBATORE, India
- Danda B Rawat Washington, DC, United States
- Peter Robinson Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NANDHINI S S ERODE, India
- KC Santosh SD, United States
- Vijayalakshmi Saravanan Rochester, NY, United States
- Eunice R Sari Perth, Australia
- Ashish Seth Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah Corona, CA, United States
- Shishir Kumar Shandilya Bhopal, India
- Balamurugan Shanmugam Coimbatore, India
- Neha Sharma Pune, India
- Yiyu Shi Notre Dame, IN, United States
- Biplab Sikdar Singapore, Singapore
- Madhusudan Singh Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- Nicolas Sklavos Patra, Greece
- Carol J Smith Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- Yan Solihin Orlando, FL, United States
- Gaurav Somani Ajmer, India
- Shuaiwen Leon Song Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Houbing Song Daytona Beach, FL, United States
- Gautam Srivastava Brandon, MB, Canada
- David G. Stork Portola Valley, CA, United States
- Bidyadhar Subudhi Ponda Goa, India
- Shamik Sural Kharagpur, India
- Daniel Takabi ATLANTA, GA, United States
- Christoph Trattner Bergen, Norway
- Athena Vakali Thessaloniki, Greece
- Mauro Vallati Huddersfield, United Kingdom
- Shriram K Vasudevan Coimbatore, India
- Sunil Kumar Vuppala Bangalore, India
- Gabriel Wainer Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Dakuo Wang Cambridge, MA, United States
- Ingmar G Weber Doha, Qatar
- Ming Xiao Stockholm, Sweden
- Elad Yom-Tov Hoshaya, Israel
- Mohamed Zahran New York, NY, United States
- Tariq Zaman Sibu,, Malaysia
- Stefano Zanero Milano, Italy
- Yu-Dong Zhang Leicester, United Kingdom
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Country
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Canada
- China
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of Korea
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
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