Gabriele Kotsis, President of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced that James Larus, a Professor and former Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), has been named Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the ACM. Widely regarded as the leading print and online publication for the computing and information technology fields, Communications of the ACM was established in 1958 and today reaches a monthly readership of more than 100,000 worldwide. As Editor-in-Chief, Larus will work with the magazine’s editorial board and staff to shape the strategic vision of the publication, plan its content, and find new ways to strengthen the monthly magazine’s relevance and influence. Although Larus will officially take up his editorial responsibilities effective July 1, 2022, he has already been involved in helping plan issues of the magazine.
Larus succeeds Andrew A. Chien, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, who became Editor-in-Chief in July 2017. Among his other accomplishments, Chien is credited with expanding the global reach of Communications, most notably with a series of Regional Special Sections. As Senior Editor, Chien will remain on the Communications of the ACM editorial board.
In addition to his role as Professor, Larus serves as Director of EPFL's Very-Large Scale Computing Lab (VLSC). He is primarily known for creating SPIM, a MIPS processor simulator, and for his work in efficient path profiling. Larus has published over 100 papers (with nine best and most influential paper awards), received over 40 US patents, and is co-author of the book Transactional Memory. His honors include receiving a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and being selected as an ACM Fellow for contributions to programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture.
Earlier in his career, Larus was a researcher, manager, and director in Microsoft Research for over 16 years and a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Larus received his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1980.
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