I am honored to share that this year I am one of 56 people to be named a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

I have been a member of the ACM since I was in college and encouraged students to become members as a professor. “Each year we look forward to selecting a new class of ACM Distinguished Members from among our worldwide association of 110,000 colleagues,” explained ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “ACM’s motto is ‘advancing computing as a science and profession.’

The citation for my membership reads: “For contributions to the development of recommender systems for eCommerce and interactive textbooks for computer science and mathematics.” As a Professor Emeritus of Luther College I’m especially proud of this honor, if you look at the other 55 people named this year they are from Google, Microsoft, and lots of prestigious research universities.

You can read more about the announcement On the ACM Website.