# Mark Giesbrecht named ACM Distinguished Scientist

**Source**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/mark-giesbrecht-named-acm-distinguished-scientist
**Parent**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/international-national-provincial-and-institutional-awards

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Mark
Giesbrecht,
a
professor
with
the
David
R.
Cheriton
School
of
Computer
Science,
has
been
named
an
Association
for
Computing
Machinery
(ACM)
Distinguished
Scientist.

Professor
Giesbrecht's
research
interests
are
in
the
area
of
computer algebra,
algebraic
algorithms
and
computational
complexity.
He
is
a member
of
the
Symbolic
Computation
Group
in
Waterloo,
and
a
founding
member
of
the
Ontario
Research
Centre
for
Computer
Algebra
with
Waterloo
and
Western
Ontario.
He
is
an
active
participant
in
the
computer
algebra
research
community
and
has
served
as
Program
Committee
Chair
of
the
International
Symposium
on
Symbolic
and
Algebraic
Computation
(ISSAC
2013)
and
the
Chair
of
the
ACM
Special
Interest
Group
on
Symbolic
and
Algebraic
Computation
(ACM
SIGSAM).

"This
award
is
well
deserved
recognition
for
Mark's
excellent
research
work
in
symbolic
computation
and
his
leadership
through
chairing
program
committees,
being
editor
of
journals,
and
chairing
the
Special
Interest
Group
on
Symbolic
and
Algebraic
Manipulation,"
wrote
Professor
David
Taylor,
Director
of
the
Cheriton
School
of
Computer
Science
in
an
e-mail.

The
ACM
Distinguished
Scientist
award
recognizes
ACM
members
with
at
least
15
years
of
professional
experience
(including
some
education
experience)
and
five
years
of
continuous
professional
membership
who
have
achieved
significant
accomplishments
or
have
made
a
significant
impact
on
the
computing
field.

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