Call for Nominations - 2025 ACM Awards
August 26, 2025
Dear ACM Community,
ACM seeks your help in building the nomination pool for our 2025 Awards. People often wonder why individuals who seem highly deserving have not received an ACM award. The all-too-frequent answer is: “They were never nominated.” ACM needs participation from our community to ensure that the individuals from our field are nominated for ACM Honors, which include ACM Awards and ACM Advanced Member Grades such as Fellow. The committees that select recipients of these honors evaluate nominations submitted by ACM members and the broader community. If you know of deserving individuals, please take the time to make sure they are nominated.
As you consider potential nominees, we ask you to consider ACM’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This commitment includes multiple aspects of diversity such as age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, physical ability, thinking style, and experience. We encourage all potential nominators to think of these factors when considering deserving individuals to nominate. While candidates for advanced member grades (Fellow or Distinguished Member) must be ACM members, candidates for ACM Awards do not need to be members to be nominated.
We ask you to help ensure that deserving individuals are nominated by distributing the ACM Awards Call for Nominations to your network through distribution lists, related organizations, and individual contacts. ACM has a spectrum of awards covering all career stages and a variety of technical areas as well as education, mentoring, and other service to the field. This chart will help you identify the appropriate award(s) for candidates you wish to nominate. Details about the nomination process for individual awards can be found here.
Again, ACM seeks your assistance in broadly distributing this call for nominations and encourages you to nominate worthy candidates. Most nominations are due December 15, 2025, but check the individual award pages for specifics. Remember, deserving individuals cannot receive these awards unless someone—perhaps you—takes the time to submit their nomination!
Roy Levin and Gabriele Kotsis
ACM Awards Committee Co-Chairs
