Bangalore: The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) has recognized 46 of its members as 2011 ACM fellows among which five are Indian Americans. They made their way to this title by providing vital information to the field of computing and creating numerous technological advancements in diverse areas such as industry, commerce, healthcare, entertainment and education. All these members will be formally acknowledged at a function held on June 16, 2012 in San Francisco.

ACM is an educational and scientific computing society which provides resources that helps in the progress of computing as a science and a profession. The five American Indians named as the 2011 ACM fellows are- Divyakant Agrawal, Ramesh Govindan, Shubhendu Mukherjee, Amit Singhal and Divesh Srivastava.

Divyakant Agrawal is from the University of California at Santa Barbara who contributed towards distributed data management systems. Ramesh Govindan from University of Southern California contributed to computer networking. Shubhendu Mukherjee who is from Cavium Networks provided valuable information on the modeling and design of high-performance and soft-error-tolerant micro architectures. Amit Singhal, a Googler did contributions in search and information retrieval; and Divesh Srivastava from, AT&T, for query processing in data management systems.

 “These women and men, who are some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in computer science and engineering, are changing how the world lives and works. They have mastered the tools of computing and computer science to address the many significant challenges that confront populations across the globe. These international luminaries are responsible for solutions that are transforming our society for the better—in healthcare, communications, cyber security, robotics, commerce, industry, and entertainment,” said ACM President Alain Chesnais.