New board members elected

Alfred V. Aho

Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Aho has a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.

Aho's research interests are information management systems, software production and pattern matching algorithms. He was named doctor of mathematics, honoris causa, University of Waterloo; IEEE Fellow; doctor of philosophy, honoris causa, University of Helsinki; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Fellow of AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Aho attended CRA Formative Meetings. He was director of the Computer Science Research Center, AT&T Bell Labs, 1987-91; general manager of the Information Sciences and Technologies and Research Laboratory, Bellcore, 1991-95; and chair of NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee, 1992-94.

Sandra Johnson Baylor

Research staff member in Parallel Systems Analysis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Baylor earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from Rice University.

Baylor's research interests are parallel I/O, parallel file systems, memory systems, computer architecture, performance evaluation and parallel processors.

Baylor received IBM's First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award. She is a member of CRA's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research. Her work on this committee includes writing a graduate school information kit for women in computer science and engineering (available later this year).

Irene Greif

Director of Workgroup Technologies,

Lotus Development Corp.

Greif has a doctorate in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Greif's research interests include computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), distributed systems, information visualization and interpersonal communication.

She is a Fellow of the AAAS, holds a patent for Version Manager, presented the opening keynote speech for Hypertext '93 and the opening keynote speech for OOPSLA '94, and was an invited speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Greif is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Exchange (regional networking pilot under the auspices of the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council), 1994-present; a member of the National Research Council (NRC) NII 2000 Committee, 1995-96; and a member of the NRC Task Force on Telecommuting, 1993-94 (report published in 1994). She founded the CSCW research field.