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1997 CRA Distinguished Service Award
presented to
Dr. Anita K. Jones
Anita Jones, a distinguished University Professor at
the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, was selected as the winner of the Distinguished
Service Award. She was selected for this award for her many contributions over the years, but most
notably for her recent service as Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E), a position
that includes oversight of the entire science and technology program of the U.S. Department of Defense
(about $35 billion annually).
Professor Jones is the first computer scientist (and the first woman) to ever hold that prestigious
position. Professor Jones has always been concerned with the health of science and engineering research
in the United States, and as DDR&E she has created a legacy of tremendous positive impact with respect
to improving the national infrastructure necessary to perform that research. CRA makes an annual award
to a person who has made an outstanding service contribution to the computing research community.
The CRA Distinguished Service Award recognizes service in the areas of government affairs,
professional societies, publications or conferences, and leadership that has had a major impact on
computing research. Anita Jones received a B.A. in Mathematics from Rice University, an M.A. in
English Literature from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon
University in 1973. She was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon until 1978,
when she was promoted to Associate Professor. During 1981-87 she was co-founder and vice-president
of Tartan Laboratories, a successful software company. Professor Jones has devoted a total of 15 years
of combined service on the Air Force Science Advisory Board, and the Defense Science Board, the
latter being the most senior of the external advisory bodies to the U.S. Department of Defense.
In 1988 Professor Jones came to the University of Virginia as Professor and Chair of the Department of
Computer Science. Her vision, leadership, and superb mentoring of junior faculty were instrumental in
forging a top-notch computer science research program at Virginia. In 1994 Professor Jones was elected
to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 1996 she was named IEEE Fellow. Anita Jones'
technical interests focus on the design and construction of programmed systems. She has designed
protection mechanisms and built secure systems which afford guarantees about how information is used.
She has designed and built multiple processor operating systems in order to experiment with both the
underlying machine architectures and the top-level applications. She implemented realistic and
substantial systems to test out design and implementation hypotheses so as to ensure both functionally
and cost-effectiveness. She is author or co-author of 37 scientific papers and the editor of two books.
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