SIGIR NEWS

Announcement and Call for Nominations:
ACM SIGIR Academy
Ryen W. White
sigir-academy-award@acm.org
ACM SIGIR Academy
We have established the ACM SIGIR Academy to honor and recognize individuals who have madesignificant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR).
Inductees to the SIGIR Academy are the principal leaders in IR, whose efforts have shaped thediscipline and/or industry through significant research, innovation, and/or service. Each year,a small cohort (around 3-5 new members) will be elected to the SIGIR Academy. Election isconsidered an official ACM award. Inductees will be celebrated at the SIGIR conference in theiryear of induction.
Selection Criteria
The criteria for election to the SIGIR Academy are as follows:• Cumulative contributions to the field,• Impact on the field through the development of new research directions, innovations, and/orservice,• Influence on the work of others, and• A reasonably active participant in the ACM SIGIR community
The criteria above include both significant technical contributions (scientific or industrial)
and/or significant community service contributions.
Nomination Process
Potential inductees must be nominated. We welcome more than one nomination from the samenominator. Self-nominations are permitted. Nominations must include the following:• Name and contact information of the nominee,• The nominee’s resume,• A brief summary (one page max, PDF) of how the nominee meets the award criteria,• Name and contact information of the nominator, andACM SIGIR Forum

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the endorser beyond their agreement that the nominee deserves the award).
Inductees into the ACM SIGIR Academy for any given year are determined by a selection committee. For transparency, the list of selection committee members will be made public. Lobbying(even informally) of committee members is not permitted.
The next deadline for nominations is December 31, 2020. Inductees and nominators will be
notified of the outcome of their nominations by email by the end of April in the induction year.
Inductees will be publicly announced at the next SIGIR conference. Nominations should be submitted via email to sigir-academy-award at acm.org. We will acknowledge receipt. Unsuccessful
nominations will be rolled over from year to year. We encourage new nominations to be submitted
for all candidates to ensure the selection committee has the latest information.
Inaugural Inductees
The first year of the academy will be 2021. In addition to selecting 3-5 members through thenomination process, we will automatically induct very senior members of the IR community who
have already been recognized as making significant contributions. The following individuals willbe automatically inducted in the first year and therefore need not be nominated:- Ricardo Baeza-Yates*- Nicholas Belkin- Andrei Broder- William Cooper- W. Bruce Croft*- Susan Dumais- Edward Fox- Norbert Fuhr
- Marti Hearst*- Kalervo Järvelin- Michael Lesk
- Yoelle Maarek*- Marc Najork- C.J. van Rijsbergen- Stephen Robertson*- Tefko Saracevic- Ellen Voorhees*- Chengxiang Zhai*
A subset of these inaugural inductees (those marked with *), plus the chair, will comprise theselection committee for the class of 2021.
Questions
Please contact the chair of the selection committee (Ryen White) at the email address above, if
you have any questions about the academy, nominations, or the selection process.
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