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IMMEDIATE
ACM TO ASSESS GLOBAL IMPACTS OF IT OUTSOURCING
New York, September 13, 2004 --
ACM has created a high level task force of internationally-recognized computer scientists, industry leaders, economists and social scientists to examine global job migration trends resulting from outsourcing and off-shoring of IT jobs. The ACM task force will assess the major forces shaping the movement of IT jobs globally, with a focus on software and systems research, development and services. Its goal is to provide a more informed context for making professional career decisions, setting future educational requirements, and understanding future employment trends. Co-chaired by Moshe Y. Vardi of Rice University and Frank Mayadas of the Sloan Foundation, the group includes representatives from North America, Europe, India, China, Japan and Israel.
"The job migration issue is very much on the minds of ACM members and the broader computing and IT community," said ACM President David Patterson. "We see the work of the task force as discovery study by experts who share ACM's commitment to advancing broad understanding of the fundamental forces driving outsourcing and off-shoring of IT employment opportunities. As a leading voice in the field, ACM has set high standards for this group, including a comprehensive study that is balanced in perspective and global in scope."
The task force will provide information to help ACM members and the wider computing community make realistic career decisions that take into account global trends. It is also designed to enable educators to effectively shape the future of education in computing and computer science in the context of a global workforce. The final report will allow industry to fairly assess the impact of migrating tasks across global boundaries. Finally, the report's conclusions are intended to embolden policy-makers worldwide to incorporate a broader understanding of the issues rather than a traditional singular or national focus.
Scheduled for release in the second half of 2005, the ACM study is expected to be a valuable resource for understanding the global trends impacting the IT
worker.
The ACM Job Migration Task Force *
Co-Chairs
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Moshe Y. Vardi
Director, Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University
Frank Mayadas
Program Director
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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Members
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William Aspray
Rudy Professor of Informatics
Indiana University
Alok Aggrawal
Founder and Chairman
Evalueserve
Frances E. Allen
IBM Fellow Emerita
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Stephen J. Andriole
Thomas G. Labrecque Professor of Business Technology
Department of Decision & Information Technologies
Villanova University
Ashish Arora
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Ruzena Bajcsy
Director, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
University of California, Berkeley
Govindasamy Balatchandirane
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Economics
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Delhi
Burt S. Barnow
Associate Director for Research
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns HopkinsUniversity
Orna Berry
Venture Partner, Gemini Israel Funds
Chairperson, Lambda Crossing
Israel
Michael Blasgen
IBM (Retired)
Vijay Gurbaxani
Associate Dean, Full-Time MBA Program
Director, Center for Research on IT and Organizations
Industry/University Consortium
University of California, Irvine
Juris Hartmanis
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Cornell University
Charles House
Director, Societal Impact of Technology
Intel Corporation
Martin Kenney
Professor, Department of Human and Community Development
University of California, Davis
Vivek Mansingh
Managing Director, India Development Center
Portal Software
Bangalore, India
AnnaLee Saxenian
Dean, School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
Bobby Schnabel
Vice Provost for Academic and Campus Technology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Bankim Shah
Founder and President
BRS Associates, Inc.
Valerie E. Taylor
Department Head and Stewart & Stevenson Professor
Texas A&M University
Takashi Umezawa
Professor of Human Resource Management
Kokushikan University
Tokyo, Japan
Roli Varma
Associate Professor and Regents Lecturer, School of Public Administration
University of New Mexico
Richard C. Waters
President, CEO & Research Fellow
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Cambridge, Massachusetts
John White (Ex-Officio)
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Hong-Jiang Zhang
Managing Director, Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Center
Beijing, China
Stuart Zweben
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
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* affiliations provided for identification purposes only
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