PResiDeNt (7/1/12 – 6/30/14)

BARBARA G. RYDER
J. byron Maupin Professor of engineering
head, department of computer Science
Virginia tech
blacksburg, Va, USa

Biography

A.B. in Applied Math, Brown Uni-
versity (1969); M.S. in Computer
Science (CS), Stanford University
(1971); Ph. D. in CS, Rutgers Univer-
sity (1982). Assoc. Member of Prof.
Staff at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray
Hill (1971–1976). Asst. Prof. (1982–
1988), Assoc. Prof. (1988–1994),
Prof. (1994–2001), Prof. II (2001–
2008), Rutgers University, Head,
Dept. of CS, Virginia Tech (2008–),
http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ryder/
ACM Vice President (2010–2012),
Secretary/ Treasurer (2008–2010),
Council Member-at-Large (2000–
2008). Chair, Federated Comput-
ing 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 Soft-
ware 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). Recent PCs:
PLDI (2012), ISSTA (2010,) ICSE
(2009). Member, Outstanding Con-
tribution to ACM Award Comm.
and ACM- W Athena Award Comm.
ACM Nat’l Lecturer (1985–1988).

Member, Ed Bd: Sci. of Comp. Programming (2009–), ACM Trans on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS, 2001–2007), and IEEE Trans on Software Engineering (2003-2008). Member, Comm. for CRA Snowbird Workshop for New Dept. Chairs (2010). Panelist: CRA Workshops on Academic Careers for Women in CS (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003), SIGSOFT New SE Faculty Symp. (2003, 2005, 2008). Exec. Champion of CS@ VT in NC WIT Pacesetters (2009–). Organizer of NC WIT VA/DC Aspirations in Computing Awards (2011–). Chair, VT College of Engineering HPC Comm. (2009–). Member, VT HPC Infrastructure Investment Comm. (2009–). Member, ADVANCE V T Faculty Advisory Comm. (2008–).

Member: SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, SIGCSE, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, AWIS, AAU W, EAPLS.

statement

As a candidate for President, I ask your help in strengthening ACM, the largest independent international computing society in the world. We face major opportunities: in the internationalization of our membership, in computing education (K– 12, college, postgraduate), in providing services for computing practitioners and researchers, and in ensuring diversity in the computing profession. My extensive experience as a SIG leader, General Chair of FCRC 2003, 8 years as ACM Council member and 4 years on the ACM Executive Committee as Secretary/ Treasurer and Vice President have prepared me well to lead ACM as President.

The ACM Councils in Europe, China and India are established; new members from these regions must be recruited into SIG/ACM leadership. Student chapters in these regions need support. The commitment to hold ACM meetings outside of North America must be continued. We should be actively recruiting contacts from Southeast Asia/Australia and South America for future growth.

We need to continue the efforts of the ACM Education Board and Council on computing curricula and building bridges to K– 12 educators (e.g., in the U.S., CS Teachers Association). By collaborating with members of each international ACM Council, we can leverage our experience to support computing education. The specific problems may vary by region, but the need to ensure a quality education in computing is worldwide.

ACM is a membership organization of computing practitioners, managers, and researchers; we need to offer benefits to all of our members. ACM serves as the ‘gold standard’ of computing research through our sponsored conferences, publications and the Digital Library. We must continue to enhance our support for scholars and students worldwide. We need to find new ways of making our conferences available to a wider audience, synchronously and asynchronously. We should continue to provide new services to researchers (e.g., author pages, Author-Izer). Equally important are new products for practitioners and students such as Tech Packs and Learning Paths. This support must be augmented by new services for life-long learning in the computing profession.

ACM must be a leader in actively supporting diversity in computing. ACM can offer a framework to support continuing and new diversity activities, in collaboration with sister organizations (e.g., CRA, CDC, NCWIT).

The SIGs must remain a strong, integral part of ACM, developing volunteer leaders, providing valuable computing research content for the Digital Library and recruiting students to ACM membership. Without volunteers, ACM cannot thrive. We need to support existing SIGs and continue to look for new areas in computing which can benefit from organization as a SIG.

In closing, I ask for your vote so that my 10 years of SIG leadership, 12 years of ACM leadership, and 37 years of active ACM membership can be put to work on these goals.