candidates for SECRETARY/TREASURER ^{(7/1/08-6/30/10)}

BARBARA G. RYDER

Professor

Department of Computer Science

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ, USA

BIOGRAPHY

■ A.B. in Applied Math, Brown Univer- Selected panelist: CRA Workshops on sity (1969); M.S. in Computer Science, Academic Careers for Women in Comp Stanford University (1971); Ph.D. in Com- Sci (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003), SIG-puter Science, Rutgers University (1982). SOFT New Software Engineering Faculty Associate Member of Professional Staff Symp (2003, 2005, 2008). Member, Rut-at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill (1971- gers Advisory Faculty Council on Women 1976). Assistant Professor (1982-1988), in Science, Engineering and Math (2006- Associate Professor (1988-1994), Profes- ). Member: SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, SIGCSE, sor (1994-2001), Professor II (2001-), ACM, IEEE Computer Society, American Rutgers University. http://www.cs.rutgers. Women in Science, EAPLS. 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-).

STATEMENT

■ As ACM Secretary/Treasurer, I will The SIGs are crucial to ACM: training work to ensure good communication volunteer leaders, providing valuable among the Exec Comm, Council, SIG research content and tools for the Digital leadership, members and staff, and to Library, and recruiting students to ACM monitor the financial health of ACM. My membership. The SIGs must remain a extensive experience as a SIG leader and strong, integral part of ACM. My 10 years my eight years on ACM Council have pre- of SIG service and 33 years of active ACM pared me well for these tasks. As General membership attest to my commitment to

Chair of FCRC 2003, I organized 24 meet- SIG concerns. ings sponsored by 7 SIGs into a coherent, I ask for your vote to work for all of financially sound research conference with these goals. 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.