Dr. Bryant Receives ACM Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Barrett Bryant was awarded the ACM SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applied Computing) Distinguished Service Award on March 14, 2007, at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007). This award is given annually to a SIGAPP member who has made significant contributions to the SIG over a period of many years. Dr. Bryant established the Programming Languages Track of SAC in 1994 and continues to co-chair this track. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Computing Review from 1996-1999 and was SAC Program Chair in 1997, SAC Vice-Chair in 1998, and Chair of SAC in 1999 and 2000. From 1999-2001 he served as Chair of the SIGAPP Executive Committee and has served as SIGAPP Chair since 2003.