William Aspray, Frank Mayadas, Moshe Y. Vardi, Editors

Frances E. Allen:
Frances Allen is an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Her technical specialty is compilers for high-performance systems. Prior to retiring in 2002, Allen was a Senior Technical Advisor to the Research Vice President for Solutions, Applications and Services. Earlier she was President of the IBM Academy of Technology, a global organization of IBM technical leaders charged with providing technical advice to the company. Allen has worked in research and product development, taken university sabbaticals at New York University and Stanford, and served on numerous professional boards including the CSTB, CISE, CRA, and ACM. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Current focus areas are the history of high-performance compilers and the role of women in computing.

Stephen J. Andriole:
Dr. Andriole was the Director of the Cybernetics Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was also the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. and the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at CIGNA Corporation. Dr. Andriole is currently the Thomas G. LaBrecque Professor of Business Technology at Villanova University, where he teaches and directs applied research in business technology management. He is formerly a Professor of Information Systems & Electrical & Computer Engineering at Drexel University and the George Mason Institute Professor, and Chairman of the Department of Information Systems & Systems Engineering at George Mason University. Some of his books include Interactive Computer-Based Systems Design and Development (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1983), Microcomputer Decision Support Systems (QED Information Sciences, Inc., 1985), Applications in Artificial Intelligence (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1986), Information System Design Principles for the 90s (AFCEA International Press, 1990), the Sourcebook of Applied Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1992), a (co-authored with Len Adelman) book on user interface technology for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. entitled Cognitive Systems Engineering (1995) and a book for McGraw-Hill entitled Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools & Cases (1996). He has recently published articles in Software Development, IEEE Software, Communications of the ACM, and the Cutter IT Journal. His most recent book-The 2nd Digital Revolution-was published by IGI Press in 2005.

Ashish Arora:
Ashish Arora has a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Dr. Arora is also co-director of the Software Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the economics of technological change, the management of technology, intellectual property rights, and technology licensing. In addition to publishing pioneering studies about the Indian software industry, he has published extensively on the economics of patents, technology licensing, the growth and development of biotechnology and the chemical industry, and software quality and security.

William Aspray (Executive Consultant):
William Aspray is the Rudy Professor of Informatics and Special Advisor on Information Technology and Professional Partnerships in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University in Bloomington. His research focuses on policy and history of information technology. One of his interests is in workforce issues, and in this area he has co-authored four reports: on the IT workforce in the United States (with Peter Freeman), the recruitment and retention of minority graduate students in IT (with Andrew Bernat), the recruitment and retention of women graduate students in IT (with Janice Cuny), and the recruitment and retention of computing faculty (with John Stankovic). Aspray was previously executive director of Computing Research Association. He has also taught at Harvard, Minnesota, Penn, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and Williams, and held administrative positions at the Charles Babbage Institute and the IEEE.

G. Balatchandirane:
G. Balatchandirane teaches East Asian Economic History and Japanese language at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, and has worked on the development issues of East Asia and South Asia. He has written mostly on aspects of agriculture, education, and information technology and the way they impinge on development as seen from a comparative perspective. He jointly edited the book India and East Asia: Learning from each other. Recently he has contributed to the report on Development of IT Industries and Regional Innovations in BRICs-The Case of India for The Asian Institute for Regional Innovation, South Korea; and to the book by Tojo Thatchenkery et al (eds.,) ICT and Economic Development (Edward Elgar, 2006). He was a visiting Professor at the Kanazawa University and the Yokohama National University. He has been invited by the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, to work on gender discrimination in education and its impact on economic development.

Burt S. Barnow:
Burt S. Barnow is Associate Director for research and Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Policy Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Barnow has over 30 years of experience conducting research and evaluation studies relating to employment and training programs, labor economics, welfare programs, child support, and responsible fatherhood programs. Dr. Barnow joined the Institute for Policy Studies in 1992 after working for eight years at the Lewin Group and nine years in the US Department of Labor. He has a B.S. degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Barnow has published widely in the fields of labor economics, program evaluation, and employment and training. He has co-edited two books published in 2000: Improving the Odds: Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labor Market, co-edited with Christopher T. King and published by the Urban Institute Press; and The Dynamics of Evaluating Comprehensive Welfare Reform, co-edited with Robert Moffitt and Thomas Kaplan and published by the Rockefeller Institute Press. Dr. Barnow served as Vice Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Information Technology Work Force and Chairman of the Research Committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He currently is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Higher Education and Workforce, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the NASA workforce, and the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board Workforce System Effectiveness Committee.

Orna Berry:
Orna Berry is a Venture Partner in Gemini Israel Funds Ltd. and the Chairperson of Adamind (LSE: ADA) Ltd. and Prime Sense, Inc. Dr. Berry is a member of EURAB (European Union Research Advisory Board) and the IRAB (Israel National Research Advisory Board). She is a former Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Government of Israel. In this capacity she was responsible for implementing government policy toward industrial research and development and entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the office of the Chief Scientist awarded $450M a year in direct research and development grants in Israeli industry and academia as well as in international programs with the United States, European Union, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, and Korea. Dr. Berry is also the co-founder of ORNET Data Communication Technologies Ltd., (acquired by Siemens), and is the former Chief Scientist of Fibronics, Inc. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from Haifa and Tel Aviv Universities and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Dr. Berry has been involved in setting a number of national and international research and development frameworks and is an international expert in the field of science and technology policies.

Michael Blasgen:
Michael Blasgen is a consultant in information technology. Most recently he was vice president and head, Computing Technologies Laboratory, at Sony's US Research Laboratory. Prior to Sony, he was director of IBM's Austin Research Laboratory that completed the world's first 1GHz microprocessor. Prior positions include director of RISC Systems at IBM's T. J. Watson Laboratory responsible for the 801 project that led to the introduction of the RISC System/6000, and manager of database systems at IBM's Almaden Laboratory responsible for System R, the first relational database system that led to DB2. Dr. Blasgen holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College, and an M.S.E.E from California Institute of Technology. Dr. Blasgen is a Fellow of the ACM and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Arndt Bode:
Arndt Bode is Professor of Informatics of Technische Universität München, Germany. Since 1999 he is Vice President and CIO of Technische Universität München. Dr. Bode's research interests include computer architecture for single processor and distributed and parallel architectures, tools for parallel systems and parallel applications. Current projects are centered around applications of distributed and parallel computers in the fields of bioinformatics, computational fluid mechanics, medicine, and other application areas. Dr. Bode is head of the Bavarian Competence Network for High Performance Supercomputing KONWIHR at the German Supercomputer installations of Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.

Jean Camp:
Jean Camp is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Adjunct Professor of Telecommunications, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University. She is the author of two books, 16 book chapters, and more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Her service to the academic community includes two terms as a Director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and two terms as President of the International Financial Cryptography Association. She is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of privacy, security, and digital trust.

Seymour E. Goodman:
Seymour (Sy) E. Goodman is Professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Dr. Goodman studies international developments in the information technologies and related public policy issues. In this capacity, he has published over 150 articles and served on many government and industry advisory and study committees. He has been the "International Perspectives" contributing editor for the Communications of the ACM for the last 15 years. Immediately before coming to Georgia Tech, Dr. Goodman was the director of the Consortium for Research in Information Security and Policy (CRISP), jointly with the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the School of Engineering, at Stanford University. He has held appointments at the University of Virginia (Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Soviet and East European Studies), The University of Chicago (Economics), Princeton University (The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Mathematics), and the University of Arizona (MIS, Middle Eastern Studies). Dr. Goodman was an undergraduate at Columbia University, and obtained his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.

Vijay Gurbaxani:
Dr. Vijay Gurbaxani is Associate Dean, Professor of Information Systems, and Director of the Center for Research on IT and Organizations Industry-University Consortium at the Graduate School of Management, University of California at Irvine. His research and teaching and interests focus on the application of economic principles to strategic issues in the information systems context. He is an expert on sourcing strategies for IT services and on the valuation of IT investment. Dr. Gurbaxani received Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, New York. His doctoral thesis won the prize for the best dissertation in a worldwide competition sponsored by the International Center for Information Technologies. Dr. Gurbaxani received an integrated five-year Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He was awarded the 2002 Outsourcing World Achievement Award in the academic category by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates.

Juris Hartmanis:
Juris Hartmanis is the Walter R. Read Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in mathematics and after teaching at Cornell and Ohio State University and working at GE Research Lab he returned to Cornell as the founding chair of Cornell's Computer Science Department in 1965. His research interests are focused on computational complexity. Dr. Hartmanis was co-recipient with R.E. Stearns of the 1993 ACM A.M. Turing Award for laying the foundations for computational complexity. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy for Arts Sciences, and foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Science, as well as Fellow of the ACM and AAAS. In 1992 he was awarded the B. Bolzono Gold medal of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic and in 1995 the Grand medal of the Latvian Academy of Science. He holds honorary degrees from University of Dortmund and University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Charles House:
Charles House is Director of Societal Impact of Technology for Intel Corporation. After 29 years at Hewlett-Packard, he was an officer of Informix, Veritas, and Dialogic corporations, and President of Spectron Microsystems. He is Chairman of Attensity Corporation and TII Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:TIII). He is a past ACM President, IEEE Publications Vice-President, and chair of the Information Section of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in Washington DC, and General Chair of ACM 1-a major Futures conference about the direction and meaning of computing in society. House has participated since 1975 in setting up and managing R&D facilities in multiple countries, for Hewlett-Packard, Informix, Veritas, and Dialogic corporations-in India, China, and Japan as well as a host of European countries. In 2002, he authored the keynote essay, "Careers in a WWW World", for the annual compendium of the International Association for Human Resources (www.ihrim.org).

William Jack:
Mr. William Jack is a Corporate Vice President with SAIC, with almost 50 years experience in the telecommunications industry. He is currently acting as the senior telecommunications advisor to the Chief of IT IS at the National Security Agency. Prior to joining SAIC, Jack retired from AT&T; his last assignment being Director of Special Accounts. In this capacity, he was responsible for AT&T's customer facing organization with the nation's intelligence agencies, as well as the State Department, FEMA, and the White House Communications Agency. He has extensive experience in program management, including numerous classified programs involving state-of-the-art signal processing and encryption. Jack was the AT&T program manager for the design, manufacture, and deployment of the STU III, as well as the transportable communications package used to support the President of the United States while traveling. He has served on numerous high-level classified review committees in the intelligence community and on boards of telecommunications companies. He is the recipient of the National Foreign Intelligence Community Seal Medallion award.

Martin Kenney:
Martin Kenney is a Professor in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis and a Senior Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. His interests are in the history and development of Silicon Valley and venture capital. Recently, he has studied the globalization of high-technology industries and venture capital and the movement of services to India (with Rafiq Dossani). He edited the book Locating Global Advantage (Stanford 2004) and Understanding Silicon Valley (Stanford 2000). He is the author or editor of five books and has published over 100 scholarly articles. He has been an invited visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, Osaka City University, Kobe University, University of Tokyo, and Copenhagen Business School, and was an Arthur Anderson Distinguished Visitor at Cambridge University.

Stefanie Ann Lenway:
Stefanie Lenway is the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as Professor of Management. Previously, Dr. Lenway was the Associate Dean for MBA Programs and General Mills Professor of Strategic Management at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. She received her MBA and Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research and consulting interests focus on global technology management and the impact of global thinking on corporate performance. Her most recent book, Managing New Industry Creation, co-authored with Tom Murtha and Jeffrey Hart, was published by Stanford University Press in December 2001. The results of this research have been published in major strategic management, international relations, and political economy journals, and discussed in numerous industry, trade, and corporate workshops. Dr. Lenway also co-developed and co-directs the Effective Global Leadership survey program and has consulted with a number of US and European multinational companies that have used the survey to identify organizational and human resource obstacles to global strategy implementation. She held the McKnight Land Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota from 1988-1992. She is also past Chair of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management and past Vice President and 1999 Program Chair of the Academy of International Business. In 2001, she was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. In 2002, she became Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Vivek Mansingh:
As a Country Manager for India Development Center of Dell Products Group, Bangalore, Dr. Mansingh spearheads a highly talented team of software professionals in developing Dell's award-winning portfolio of products. Prior to Dell, he was Managing Director of Portal Software's India Development Center. Dr. Mansingh led his team in developing Portal's award-winning portfolio of revenue management software, developing consulting practice, and global technical support. Previously, he was Managing Director of Ishoni Networks in India, where he led the organization in developing extremely innovative broadband technology and products. In the US, Dr. Mansingh was founder and executive vice president of ATTI, a subsidiary of Aavid. Aavid was listed in Fortune magazine as one of the 100 fastest-growing companies in the US for 1999. Prior to that, he worked in the Silicon Valley for more than 15 years at Fujitsu and Hewlett Packard, as Director of Marketing & Sales, Senior Scientist, and Member of Technical Staff. He holds six US patents and has published more than 85 technical papers in various scientific and trade publications. He has also authored a chapter in a Handbook of Microelectronics, published by McGraw Hill. Dr. Mansingh is a member of the Board of Governors at the National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. He is a Charter Member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneur, a worldwide entrepreneurial organization headquartered in Silicon Valley. He graduated with a Ph.D. and a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, in 1986. He also underwent the Executive Business Management Program for Growing Companies, Stanford University in 1996. Vivek was awarded the Gold Medal for graduating at the top of his class of Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Allahabad.

Göran Marklund:
Göran Marklund is Science and Technology Attaché at the Swedish Offices of Science and Technology within the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC. He is also guest researcher at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) at George Washington University. He has a Ph.D. in Economic History, with a focus on Swedish innovation policy. In Sweden, Dr. Marklund is head of the Department for Strategy Development and member of the board of directors at VINNOVA, The Government Agency for Innovation Systems. VINNOVA funds industrially relevant R&D with the aim to contribute to economic growth and sustainable development in Sweden. VINNOVA's Department for Strategy Development focuses on foresight, analysis and evaluation of innovation policy programs in order to promote innovation policy priorities and policy learning. His own research has primarily focused on the international competitiveness of the Swedish national innovation system and of different industrial innovation systems in Sweden. A key competence of his is indicators on human resources, R&D, innovation, and economic growth.

Frank Mayadas (Co-Chair):
Prior to coming to the Sloan Foundation, Frank Mayadas spent 27 years at the IBM Corporation. He was Vice President, Research Division, Technical Plans and Controls from 1991 to 1992; Vice President, Technology and Solutions Development, Application Solutions Line of Business, from 1989 to 1991; General Manager, University of College Systems, IBM Personal Systems Line of Business, from 1988 to 1989; Secretary of IBM's Corporate Management Board and the IBM Management Committee, from 1987 to 1988; and the IBM Management Committee, from 1987 to 1988; and IBM Research Division Vice President and Director, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California from 1983 to 1987; and an IBM Research Division Director, Technical Planning and Controls, from 1981 to 1983. At Sloan, Dr. Mayadas is involved in a number of areas: online education, globalization of industries, industry studies, and career choice in technical fields. He started the Sloan online learning program in 1993. He shares responsibility for the Sloan industry studies program with Gail Pesyna of Sloan, and is directly responsible for seven Sloan industry centers: the Automobile Industry Center at MIT, the Computer Software Center at CMU, the Internet Marketing Center at Vanderbilt, the Wood Products Industry Center at Virginia Tech, the Apparel Center at Harvard, the Printing industry Center at RIT, and the Metal Forming Center at WPI. Dr. Mayadas received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell in 1965, and a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in 1961. He has over 40 published papers in Systems, Devices, Solid State Physics, and online learning and holds several patents, and awards from IBM. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and a past Director of the Society of Engineering Science.

Peter Mertens:
Dr. Peter Mertens, born 1937, is professor for information systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he is a member of both the business and the engineering schools. He taught at various universities in Germany as well as abroad. Before rejoining the university, he was one of the presidents of a large software and consulting firm. Dr. ens is engaged in IT projects with German firms in several different industries. One of his research areas is offshoring/nearshoring. He wrote and co-authored several books on information systems as well as on SAP's initiatives, some of which have also been published in the US. His books have been translated into Chinese and Italian. He received honorary degrees from four universities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and he is Fellow of the German Computer Science Society and Honorary Member of the Association of University Professors of Management.

Rob Ramer:
Rob Ramer is a senior information security consultant with 25 years in the information technology industry. His experience includes founding an international security company dedicated to risk mitigation for global sourcing. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies and small non-profits and written extensively about outsourcing, international business, and security technology. Born and raised in India he now lives and works in St. Paul, MN.

Bobby Schnabel:
Bobby Schnabel is Vice Provost for Academic and Campus Technology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In this position he serves as chief information officer for CU-Boulder, and as director of the ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Institute, a campuswide institute that provides multidisciplinary curricular, research and outreach programs involving the content and tools of information technology. Dr. Schnabel has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science since 1977, and has served as department chair, and as associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering. His teaching and research interests are in scientific and high-performance computation. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of SIAM Review, on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association, and as chair of the national Information Technology Deans group. He is a co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology.

Bankim Shah:
Bankim Shah is the founder and president of BRS Associates, Inc. He brought to BRS his extensive international experience as a senior executive with IBM. During the past 10 years, he has consulted with premier companies in US, Japan, and India in areas ranging from Business and Competitive Strategies and Business Process Reengineering to Outsourcing. His continuing interest in emerging trends and directions has led him to focus more of his work on understanding the impact of these changes on corporations as well as individuals.

Marie Stella:
Marie Stella, CISSP, is the lead security engineer for the FAA's National Airspace Communications Effort. On assignment to the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University from 2003-2004, she led the CTNSP efforts in Information Assurance policy and technical issues as they relate to military transformation and homeland defense. She led a joint effort of developing workshops on Complexity and the Critical Infrastructure between the CTNSP and the Cyber Conflict Studies Association and was the technical editor for a book on Information Assurance Vulnerability. Stella is a member of the NTIA's Economic Security Working Group and the Department of State's International Outreach program. She also chaired the security workshop efforts for NASA's Integrated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Conferences from 2002-2004. Prior to coming to the FAA in 1991, Stella served in senior management and technical positions at a variety of companies, including Network Management Inc., Network Strategies, the MITRE Corporation, IBM, and the Port of Authority of New York. She holds an undergraduate degree from CCNY and a Masters in telecommunication engineering from the University of Colorado School of Electrical Engineering.

Valerie E. Taylor:
Valerie E. Taylor earned her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. From 1991-2002, Dr. Taylor was a member of the faculty of in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northwestern University. Dr. Taylor joined the faculty of Texas A&M University as Head of the Dwight Look College of Engineering's Department of Computer Science and holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship II. Her research interests are in the areas of computer architecture and high performance computing, with particular emphasis on mesh partitioning for distributed systems and the performance of parallel and distributed applications. She has authored or co-authored over 80 papers in these areas. Dr. Taylor has received numerous awards for distinguished research and leadership, including the 2002 IEEE Harriet B. Rigas Award for woman with significant contributions in engineering education, the 2002 Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni from the University of California at Berkeley, the 2002 Nico Habermann Award for increasing the diversity in computing, and the 2005 Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing. Dr. Taylor is a member of ACM and Senior Member of IEEE-CS.

Takashi Umezawa:
Takashi Umezawa is Professor of Human Resource Management in Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on HRM in the IT industry, especially the software industry. His current interests include the international division of labor in the software industry. He has researched the software industries of India and China, Israel, Ireland, Russia. He has written a report for the Japanese ministry of health and labor about foreign software engineers in Japan (2003). His books are HRM in Information Service Industry (2000) and The Builders of the Japanese Software Industry (with Ken Uchida, 2001).

Moshe Y. Vardi (Co-Chair):
Moshe Y. Vardi is the George Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Computer and Information Technology Institute at Rice University. He chaired the Computer Science Department at Rice University from January 1994 till June 2002. Prior to joining Rice in 1993, he was at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he managed the Mathematics and Related Computer Science Department. His research interests include database systems, computational-complexity theory, multi-agent systems, and design specification and verification. Dr. Vardi received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981. He is the author and co-author of over 250 technical papers, as well as a book titled Reasoning about Knowledge. Dr. Vardi is the recipient of three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards and a co-winner of the 2000 Goedel Prize. He is a Fellow of the ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the European Academy of Sciences.

Roli Varma:
Roli Varma is Regents Lecturer and an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993. Dr. Varma's research focuses on the under-representation of women and minorities in science and engineering, new immigrants in science and engineering workforce in the United States, and management of industrial and academic science. Her research is supported by the grants from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.

Richard C. Waters:
Dr. Richard Waters is President and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), leading the 80-person North American research and development operations of Mitsubishi Electric Company. The research at MERL focuses on five areas: computer vision, off-the-desktop interaction and display, digital communications, digital video, and sensor and data systems. Prior to Joining MERL in 1991, Dr. Waters worked for 13 years at the MIT artificial intelligence laboratory as a Research Scientist and co-principal investigator of the Programmer's Apprentice project, which developed semi-automated software engineering tools. Dr. Waters is currently a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association.

John White:
John R. White is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Prior to joining ACM, Dr. White was Manager of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he managed numerous research projects in electronic document systems and services. Prior to his 17 years at Xerox PARC, Dr. White was a professor of computer science at the University of Connecticut. Dr. White served as ACM President from 1990-92. A Fellow of the ACM, he received the ACM Outstanding Contribution award in 1994, honoring his key volunteer roles. He is also a recipient of a Xerox PARC Excellence in Science and Technology Award and holds a US patent.

Stuart Zweben:
Stu Zweben is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow and former president of ACM, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA), a Fellow and former president of CSAB, a Fellow of ABET, and a member of the executive committee of the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. For the past several years, he has been chair or co-chair of CRA's Surveys Committee, responsible for the annual Taulbee Survey, one of the most widely used instruments in assessing workforce issues within academic computer science programs. Dr. Zweben has served on task forces studying the U.S. IT workforce and the recruitment and retention of computing faculty, and he helped develop an information technology career academy program serving urban high schools in Columbus, OH.