• Ricardo Bianchini and Mike Saks

Congratulations to Ricardo Bianchini and Mike Saks, who were selected as ACM Fellows starting in 2016:

http://awards.acm.org/fellow/year.cfm

Ricardo Bianchini, who has been a faculty member in the Computer Science department from January 2000 to December 2015 and is now Chief Efficiency Strategist at Microsoft Research, was selected for contributions to power, energy, and thermal management of servers and datacenters.

Mike Saks, a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and a Graduate Faculty member of the Computer Science department, was selected for contributions to computational complexity, theory of distributed computing, and design and analysis of algorithms.

See a Microsoft Research article highlighting the new ACM Fellows at MS Research, including Ricardo:
 http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/12/08/microsoft-researchers-earn-distinctions-premier-computing-society/#sm.000005ngon97p9fdivosp2k30wrwd