candidates for MEMBERS AT LARGE (7/1/08-6/30/12)

ANTHONY JOSEPH

Chancellor’s Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science Department

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, USA

DANIEL T. LING

Corporate Vice President

Microsoft Research

Redmond, WA, USA

BIOGRAPHY STATEMENT

■ Dr. Joseph received his S.B. and S.M. ■ Our field of computer science faces degrees in EECS in 1988 and his Ph.D. a changing world. Economic and demo-degree in Computer Science in 1998, all graphic changes are reshaping the role o f from MIT. He has been on the faculty at CS in today’s society. If elected Member at the University of California, Berkeley since Large, I will focus on:

1998, holding the Chancellor’s Associate • Exploring ways to expand distance
Professor Chair since 2007. Starting in learning for undergraduate courses
June, he will be the director of the Intel and continuing education around the
Research Berkeley Laboratory. world. I’m interested in increasing the
His research interests include network use of distance learning, especially as a
and computer security, the security of distribution mechanism for reaching and
machine learning in decision-making educating students and professionals in
environments, critical cyber-infrastruc- developing nations. At Berkeley, I put my
ture protection, mobile computing and course lectures online, and I’ve received
networking, wireless telecommunication positive global feedback. While the cost of
networks, overlay networks, and computer computing is ever-declining, the “human”
architectures for distributed systems. overhead of creating online content has
Dr. Joseph is a recipient of the Diane not decreased as much. ACM should help
McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teach- develop the necessary common technolo-
ing, a National Science Foundation gies and services to enable organizations
CAREER Award, an Okawa Foundation around the globe to distribute their knowl-
Research Grant in Telecommunications edge and engage students.
and Information Processing, an IBM • Identifying opportunities and
Faculty Development Award, an Intel mechanisms for using K- 12 outreach to
Foundation Graduate Fellowship, an IBM increase computer science undergradu-
Corporation Graduate Fellowship, and a ate enrollments, especially for women
Shell Corporation National Achievement and minorities. Our reduced enrollments
Corporation Scholarship. He is a lifetime are leading to a shortage of CS profes-
member of ACM, and also a member of sionals. I will explore ways to connect
USENIX, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. K- 12 students with CS professionals and
He has already served ACM in multiple academics. By publicizing trends in social
roles: past associate editor for ACM SIG- networking, online games, and distance
MOBILE Mobile Computing and Commu- learning, ACM could play a vital role in
nications Review; past technical program attracting students who are more interest-
co-chair for the ACM/IEEE International ed using IT than in the technology itself.
Conference on Mobile Computing and • Working with elected officials to
Networking (MobiCom 2003); past edito- educate them about CS topics, issues, and
rial board member for ACM/Kluwer Wire- funding needs. CS has an increasing role
less Networks journal; past general chair in other academic and professional fields
for the Workshop on Mobile Computing around the world, ranging from science
Services and Applications 2006 (co-spon- (gene sequencing) to art history (image
sored by ACM SIGMOBILE); past member processing). CS is a necessary tool for
of the Defense Science Study Group these fields and government officials
(2004-2005). need to be educated about the need for
balanced applied and basic CS research
funding portfolios.

BIOGRAPHY STATEMENT

■ Dan Ling received his BS (’ 74), MS ■ The ACM has been a vital organization (’ 75) and PhD (’ 80) in Electrical Engineer- to the field of computer science over the ing from Stanford University. Dan cur- past 60 years. Today the ACM is more rently serves as Corporate Vice President important to our field than ever organizing at Microsoft. From July 1995 until March outstanding conferences and publications, 2007 he served as the director of the main pioneering the digital library, serving as Microsoft Research laboratory in Red- a gathering place through the SIGs, and mond, WA. He has since transitioned to a being an important voice for our com-part-time role on special assignment. Dan munity. However our field faces a number joined Microsoft in 1992 to help found a of challenges where ACM can help. While new corporate research laboratory focused the technical advances of information on computer science. When he arrived, technology and its contribution to both Microsoft Research consisted of fewer society and the world economy have than half a dozen staff in Redmond. Since been breathtaking, many students today that time Microsoft Research has grown to are turning away from the discipline. over 800 staff in five laboratories around The ACM needs to help clearly articulate the world. Dan has played a key role in the excitement of the field and reach out the transformation of Microsoft Research beyond colleges and universities to high into a leading corporate research lab that schools so that younger students continue has made key contributions to the field to enter the field. Similarly the ACM needs of computer science as well as to many to strengthen its efforts to increase the Microsoft products and services. In addi- diversity of people in the profession via tion to leading the Redmond laboratory he initiatives such as ACM-W and CDC. also helped to found the laboratories in Much of the excitement today is work-Beijing and Bangalore. ing across disciplines not only within

Prior to joining Microsoft, Dan was the field of computer science but under-at the IBM Thomas J. Watson research standing how the principles and ideas center where he served in multiple roles. of computer science can influence other His early research work resulted in the co- scientific fields. I believe students are par-invention of the dual ported video memory ticularly excited about addressing major which enabled inexpensive high perfor- issues facing our society such as climate mance frame buffers. He subsequently change, sustainable development and managed research projects in computer global health. Computer science can play aided design and computer organization an important role not simply by providing that contributed to the first commercial technology but through what Jeannette IBM RISC processor, the PowerPC chip. Wing has called “computational thinking”. He also led research efforts in virtual real- The ACM can be a strong voice demon-ity, HCI and data visualization. strating these exciting opportunities.

Dan has served on advisory committees Finally, it is important for ACM to be to the School of Engineering at Stanford, widely inclusive of our community; to UC Berkeley and the University of Wash- broaden its international perspective ington as well as for the Directorate of through stronger international chapters, to Computer and Information Science and provide additional value to the practitioner, Engineering at the National Science Foun- and to be meaningful to new professionals dation and the Computer Science and just starting their careers. Telecommunications Board at the National Academies.