ACM President

Stuart Feldman
Vice President, Engineering
Google, Inc.
New York, NY

Stu Feldman was elected President of ACM for the two-year term beginning July 1, 2006.

He is Vice President, Engineering at Google, Inc. Stu is responsible for engineering activities at Google's offices in the eastern half of the Americas. Before joining Google, he worked at IBM for eleven years. Most recently, he was Vice President for Computer Science in IBM Research, where he drove the long-term and exploratory worldwide science strategy in computer science and related fields, led programs for open collaborative research with universities, and influenced national and global computer science policy.

Feldman received his AB in Astrophysics from Princeton and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from MIT. He has published in software engineering (author of Make), programming languages (first Fortran 77 compiler), scientific computing, electronic commerce, and other areas of computer science.

Feldman was Vice President of ACM from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2006. He is a Fellow of the ACM. He was Chair of SIGPLAN (1991-93), after serving as Vice Chair and Member at Large, and was the founding chair of SIGecom (1999-2003). He is a SIG Governing Board representative to the ACM Council. He is a member of the editorial board of ACM Queue magazine, and is conference co-chair of WWW 2004. He has been chair and program committee member of numerous conferences and is a member of SIGecom, SIGPLAN, and SIGSOFT.

In addition, Feldman is the recipient of the 2003 Software System Award from ACM. He is a Fellow of IEEE and member of the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing. Stu has been a member of the Board of AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and of the CRA (Computing Research Association). He is a Consulting Professor of Information Technology at Carnegie-Mellon and has taught courses at Berkeley, Princeton, and Yale. He is a member of the Board of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.

ACM Vice President

Wendy Hall
Professor of Computer Science
School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS)
University of Southampton
Southampton, Hants, UK

Wendy Hall is Vice President of ACM, elected for the two-year term beginning July 1, 2006.

Hall received a BSc with honors (Mathematics, University of Southampton, 1974); PhD (Pure Mathematics, University of Southampton, 1977); and MSc (Computer Science, City University, London, 1986). She served as Lecturer, Oxford Polytechnic (1977); Lecturer, LSU College of Higher Education (1978); and Lecturer (1984); Senior Lecturer (1990); and CS Professor (1994), University of Southampton. She’s been head of ECS since 2002.

Hall’s team developed the well-known Microcosm open hypermedia system, which was patented and spun-off into a commercial company (1994), winning an ITEA award (1995) and British Computer Society (BCS) IT award (1996). She has published over 300 journal and conference papers.

Hall was named CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list (2000). She is an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow (1996–2002), and a member of UK Government’s Technology Foresight Panel (1995–1998); the EPSRC council (1997–2002); executive member of UK Computing Research Committee since 2002; and member of UK Prime Minister’s Council of S&T since 2004, Honorary DSc (Oxford Brookes University, 2002). She has served on the ACM Publications Board since 1999, and was program co-chair of Multimedia ’96 and conference co-chair for Hypertext ’97 and Multimedia ’98. She was an executive committee member of SIGMultimedia (1998–2003) and is a member of SIGWEB and SIGMM.

Hall has been BCS President since 2003; FREng (2000); FBCS (1996); FIEE (1997); FCGI (2002); and CEng (1990). She was Vice President of Publications for BCS (1998–2002); a member of IW3C2 since 1997; and member of several editorial boards and program committees.

ACM Secretary-Treasurer

Alain Chesnais
Vice President, Product Development
View22
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Alain Chesnais was elected Secretary-Treasurer of ACM for the two-year term beginning July 1, 2006.

He studied at the Universite de Paris VII, and earned a Maitrise de Mathematiques, a Maitrise Structure Mathematique de l’Informatique, and a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies. He also studied at l’Ecole Normale Superierure de l’Enseignement Technique.

Chesnais was ACM SIGGRAPH president from July 2002 to June 2005, and SIG Governing Board Chair from July 2000 to June 2002. A French citizen now residing in Canada, he has more than 20 years of management experience in the software industry. He joined the local SIGGRAPH Chapter in Paris some 20 years ago as a volunteer and has continued his involvement with ACM in a variety of leadership capacities since then.

John R. White

John R. White was appointed ACM Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer in November 1998. He has articulated and helped shape a new direction for ACM, the electronic community for information technology professionals worldwide. Under his leadership, ACM is providing a new generation of digital products and services for computing professionals.

Prior to joining ACM, Dr. White was Manager of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He led the research group that developed DocuPrint, Xerox' series of high-end, high-speed networked printing products. As head of the Computer Science Lab, he managed research teams exploring future offerings in networked electronic document systems, services, and commerce. Prior to his tenure at Xerox PARC, Dr. White was professor of Computer Science at the University of Connecticut.

White served as ACM President from 1990-92, and substantially increased ACM's role as an international organization. He expanded ACM's involvement into public policy issues, including privacy, the underrepresentation of women and minorities in computing, K-12 education, and the protection of intellectual property. He opened the ACM Washington Office and launched ACM's US Public Policy Committee (USACM).

White received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Computer Science, and his BA in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has 15 refereed publications and a patent to his credit. A Fellow of the ACM, he received the ACM Outstanding Contribution award in 1994, honoring his key volunteer roles at ACM over the past two decades. He is also a recipient of the Xerox PARC Excellence in Science and Technology Award. Dr. White has served on the boards of the Computing Research Association, Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, and the Publishers International Linking Association (CrossRef).