[Published originally in the May 2004 edition of Computing Research News, Vol. 16/No. 3, p. 3.]

CRA recently elected four new members to its board of directors. Robert Constable (Cornell University), Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Institute of Technology), Robert Kahn (Corporation for National Research Initiatives), and David Tennenhouse (Intel) will begin three-year terms beginning July 1, 2004.

Three current board members, Philip Bernstein (Microsoft), Leah Jamieson (Purdue University), and Moshe Vardi (Rice University) were re-elected to three-year terms. Oscar Garcia was appointed a IEEE-CS representative on the CRA board in February 2004.

Newly Elected

Robert Constable is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University. He is an ACM Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Constable was a CS department chair for six years and a director of the Marktoberdorf NATO summer school in Computer Science. His research interests lie in system verification, automated reasoning, and computing theory. Professor Constable received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.

Mary Jean Harrold is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is an ACM Fellow and an NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech since 2001. Professor Harrold has been a member of CRA-W since 1998 and currently serves as co-chair. She was director of CRA-W's Distributed Mentor Project, and participated in CRA-W's Grad Cohort for Women Project and CRA-W Distinguished Professor for the Cohort of Associate Professors Project. Her research interests include program analysis and testing, regression testing, empirical studies, and software visualization. Professor Harrold received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Robert Kahn is President and CEO of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), an organization he created and has led for 18 years. He has been awarded the National Medal of Technology, NAE Draper Prize, Marconi Award, Prince of Asturias Award, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, and numerous honorary degrees and other honors. Dr. Kahn is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. He began the Internet project at DARPA and formulated and led the Strategic Computing Program during its initiation. Prior to joining DARPA, he was responsible for the system design of the ARPANET at BBN. Dr. Kahn received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

David Tennenhouse is Vice President of the Corporate Technology Group and Director of Research at Intel Corp. Prior to joining Intel, he was Director of IT at DARPA, and before that was a Research Scientist and Faculty Member at MIT. In 2003 he was elected an IEEE Fellow. His research interests include networking, computer architecture, distributed systems, software radio, and nanoscale electronics. Dr. Tennenhouse was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Board Appointment

Oscar Garcia was appointed to represent the IEEE-CS on the CRA board, effective February 23, 2004. He is the Founding Dean of Engineering at the University of North Texas, and previously was NCR Endowed Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University. Dr. Garcia is a past president of IEEE-CS and has served on the IEEE Board of Directors. He is currently Secretary of the Computer Society, Chairman of its Awards Committee, and a Member of its Board of Governors. Dr. Garcia received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.