【講演概要】It is a great honor to be addressing the participants of the 85th National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan as President of the Association of Computing Machinery. The main theme of the convention, “Diversity and Information Processing”, makes my presentation very timely as well, as Diversity (together with Equity and Inclusion) is one of the key issues of concern and a priority for ACM and its members. Diversity is strength and richness; diversity leads to high productivity and effectiveness! Given the role that computing and information processing plays in society today, diversity is foundational for our field to fulfill its global societal mission. In this presentation, I will first identify several dimensions of diversity, i.e., geographic, gender, race, age, activity, disciplinary, and others, and discuss the corresponding challenges that the community of computing and information processing is facing. I will then outline various initiatives that ACM has or is putting in place to harness the relevant opportunities and increase the diversity of its membership in each dimension.
【略歴】Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D., Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, 1986; MSc, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1983; Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1982) is the President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served as the President and General Director for 10 years (2011-2021). His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Data and Text Analytics, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, Recommender Systems and Personalization, and Human-Computer Interaction, topics on which he has published over 160 articles in leading journals and conferences and also holds three patents. His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Social Sciences and Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences) and the Arts. He has been the coordinator and legal entity head of OpenAIRE, which implements the European policies on open access to research publications and data. He is the software director of the European Human Brain Project flagship initiative, the coordinator of the EOSC Future strategic project, which implements the core elements of the European Open Science Cloud, and a coordinator or partner in tens of other European and national research and innovation projects. He has also led or is currently leading the creation of new international or spin-off companies. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of several research and teaching awards. He is currently the Greek delegate to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and a co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.