Barbara G. Ryder
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA

BIOGRAPHY

A.B. in Applied Math, Brown University (1969); M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University (1971); Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers University (1982). Associate Member of Professional Staff at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill (1971-1976). Assistant Professor (1982-1988), Associate Professor (1988-1994), Professor (1994-2001), Professor II (2001-), Rutgers University.  http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~ryder/

Fellow of the ACM (1998) for seminal contributions to interprocedural compile-time analyses. Member, Board of Directors, Computer Research Assn (1998-2001). SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (2001). Rutgers Graduate Teaching Award (2007). Rutgers Leader in Diversity Award (2006). Professor of the Year Award from Rutgers CS Grad Students (2003).

ACM Council Member-at-Large (2000-2008). Chair, Federated Computing Research Conf (FCRC 2003).  SIGPLAN Chair (1995-1997), Vice Chair for Confs (1993-1995), Exec Comm (1989-1999).  General Chair of: SIGSOFT Int’l Symp on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA, 2008), SIGPLAN Conf on History of Programming Languages III (HOPL-III, 2007), SIGPLAN Conf on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI, 1999, 1994). Program Chair of: HOPL-III (2007), PLDI (1991). Member, Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award Comm and ACM-W Athena Award Comm; Member, SIGSOFT IMPACT Project Steering Comm (2001-).  ACM National Lecturer (1985-1988).

Member, Editorial Board of ACM Trans on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS, 2001-2007) and IEEE Trans on Software Engineering (2003-).

Selected panelist: CRA Workshops on Academic Careers for Women in Comp Sci (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003), SIGSOFT New Software Engineering Faculty Symp (2003, 2005, 2008).  Member, Rutgers Advisory Faculty Council on Women in Science, Engineering and Math (2006-). Member: SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, SIGCSE, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, American Women in Science, EAPLS.

STATEMENT

As ACM Secretary/Treasurer, I will work to ensure good communication among the Exec Comm, Council, SIG leadership, members and staff, and to monitor the financial health of ACM. My extensive experience as a SIG leader and my eight years on ACM Council have prepared me well for these tasks. As General Chair of FCRC 2003, I organized 24 meetings sponsored by 7 SIGs into a coherent, financially sound research conference with 2500 attendees and a $1M budget.

I am determined to maintain ACM as the leading computing society, and our representative on issues of public policy world-wide. There are three key current challenges: providing better services to our practitioner members, expanding ACM into a truly international organization, and supporting the SIGs.

Recent efforts expanded our Local Chapters program, offered new opportunities to mentor younger professionals through MemberNet, enhanced the Digital Library and Portal, and began redesigning CACM to meet member needs better.  Such efforts must continue.

Initial efforts at internationalization of ACM established relationships with professionals in India and China that must be strengthened and widened to include areas such as Russia/Eastern Europe, and South Asia. Geographically diverse ACM members should be recruited for ACM and SIG leadership.  More ACM meetings outside of North America should be co-sponsored with sister societies.

The SIGs are crucial to ACM: training volunteer leaders, providing valuable research content and tools for the Digital Library, and recruiting students to ACM membership. The SIGs must remain a strong, integral part of ACM.  My 10 years of SIG service and 33 years of active ACM membership attest to my commitment to SIG concerns.

I ask for your vote to work for all of these goals.