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`Michael J. Freedman
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`AWARD WINNER
`Michael J. Freedman
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`ACM Fellows (2019)
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`ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2018)
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`2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the
`Digital Age
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`2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
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`ACM Fellows
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`USA - 2019
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`For contributions to robust distributed systems for the modern cloud
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`Press Release
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`ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
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`USA - 2018
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`CITATION
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`For the design and deployment of self-organizing geo-distributed systems.
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`Historically, distributed systems were designed for homogenous environments:
`local clusters, flat peer-to-peer deployments, or abstract models for theoretical
`analysis. Michael showed how to build scalable, performant, and autonomous
`distributed systems for modern heterogeneous deployments and realistic
`workloads.
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`Unique among systems colleagues, Michael challenged accepted tradeoffs
`through new algorithms and protocols with formal guarantees, and builds and
`deploys widely-used systems. His work on CoralCDN reexamines the design of
`peer-to-peer applications. Traditional distributed hash tables proved woefully
`unable to handle flash-crowd workloads. By changing the DHT semantics and
`introducing algorithms to self-organize into a locality-optimized hierarchy of
`peers, CoralCDN is uniquely designed to find nearby content and handle overload
`conditions.
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`Practically, CoralCDN provides free delivery and scalability of p2p systems on one
`hand, and the ability to support unmodified web clients and servers on the other
`hand. CoralCDN was perhaps the only academic peer-to-peer system to see real
`and sustained use, deployed 2004-2015 at roughly 500 PlanetLab sites
`worldwide, with millions of daily users. Its use varied from solving the "Slashdot"
`effect, distributing amateur videos of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, and caching
`websites post-Fukushima in 2011.
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`Press Release
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`2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching
`Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age
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`ACM has named 58 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental
`contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, combating
`cybercrime, quantum computing and wireless networking. The accomplishments
`of the 2019 ACM Fellows underpin the technologies that define the digital age
`and greatly impact our professional and personal lives. ACM Fellows comprise an
`elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.
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`"Computing technology has had a tremendous impact in shaping how we live and
`work today,” said ACM President Cherri M. Pancake in announcing the 2019 ACM
`Fellows. “All of the technologies that directly or indirectly influence us are the
`result of countless hours of collaborative and/or individual work, as well as
`creative inspiration and, at times, informed risk-taking. Each year, we look
`forward to welcoming some of the most outstanding individuals as Fellows. The
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`ACM Fellows program is a cornerstone of our overall recognition effort. In
`highlighting the accomplishments of the ACM Fellows, we hope to give credit
`where it is due, while also educating the public about the extraordinary array of
`areas in which computing professionals work."
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`Underscoring ACM’s global reach, the 2019 Fellows hail from universities,
`companies and research centers in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France,
`Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.
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`The contributions of the 2019 Fellows run the gamut of the many sub-disciplines
`of the computing field―including artificial intelligence, cloud computing,
`computer graphics, computational biology, data science, security and privacy,
`software engineering, quantum computing, and web science, to name a few.
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`Additional information about the 2019 ACM Fellows, as well as previously named
`ACM Fellows, is available through the ACM Fellows site .
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`2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
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`ACM named Constantinos Daskalakis and Michael J. Freedman recipients of
`the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.
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`Daskalakis, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is
`recognized for his seminal contributions to the theory of computation and
`economics, particularly the complexity of Nash Equilibrium.
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`Strategic interaction greatly complicates behavior in socioeconomic
`environments, from traditional markets and offline social networks to modern
`technological systems such as online advertising platforms, kidney exchanges,
`cryptocurrencies, sharing economy applications, and online social networks. To
`analyze behavior in such strategic environments, economists have long relied on
`concepts of equilibrium. Daskalakis’s work, with Goldberg and Papadimitriou, has
`challenged equilibrium theory by showing that Nash equilibrium is
`computationally intractable and thus unattainable, in general. His work has
`influenced an ongoing reshaping of the study of strategic behavior, showing that
`computation must play an essential role in the foundations of game theory and
`economics. Daskalakis’s more recent work has resolved long-standing open
`problems in multi-dimensional mechanism design, and advanced several other
`fields, including machine learning, probability theory and statistics.
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`Freedman, a professor at Princeton University, is cited for the design and
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`deployment of self-organizing geo-distributed systems.
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`By introducing new algorithms and protocols, Freedman has shown how to build
`scalable, performant, and autonomous distributed systems for modern
`heterogeneous deployments and realistic workloads. Some of Freedman’s most
`popular systems include CoralCDN, a content distribution infrastructure that has
`been deployed at hundreds of network sites worldwide and been used by millions
`of clients to share images, videos and other content; the JetStream system,
`which employs an innovative approach to data streaming analytics; and
`TimescaleDB, an open source time series database that provides complex queries
`at scale on both historical and fresh data. Additionally, in more fundamental
`research, Freedman and colleagues have demonstrated that theoretically deep
`cloud systems need not be slow or scale poorly.
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`The ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding young
`computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major
`technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied by a prize of
`$35,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the
`qualifying contribution was made. Financial support for this award is provided by
`Microsoft.
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`Copyright © 2020, ACM, Inc
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