Professor Peter Denning, chairman of the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Computer Science and director of the Cebrowski Institute (center), receives a surprise award for “exceptional vision, devotion and commitment to excellence” from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), June 9. Presenting the award were ACM President Stuart Feldman (left) and the society’s CEO John White. Past president of the ACM Council, editor in chief of the association’s magazine, and founder of the ACM Digital Library, the first comprehensive digital library of any scientific society, Denning said he felt like Peter Sellers, “having played all the roles.” Photo courtesy of ACM.