NAE elects 78 new members

The National Academy of Engineering recently elected 78 new members and eight foreign associates. This brings the total US membership to 1,841 and the number of foreign associates to 156.

NAE membership is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers, and membership is given to those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology," according to NAE. Newly elected engineers in computer science and related fields are:

Leonard M. Adleman: Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California. For contributions to the theory of computation and cryptography.

Marc A. Auslander: Fellow, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. For contributions to reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) systems.

Barry W. Boehm: TRW Professor of Software Engineering, University of Southern California. For contributions to computer and software architectures and to models of cost, quality and risk for aerospace systems.

David D. Clark: Senior research scientist and leader, Advanced Network Architecture Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For design and development of efficient implementation techniques for Internet protocols.

Douglas C. Engelbart: Director, Bootstrap Institute. For work in computer user interfaces and the collaborative work systems they enable.

William H. Gates III: Chief executive officer, Microsoft Corp. For contributions to the founding and development of personal computing.

Andries van Dam: T.J. Watson Jr. Professor of Technology and Education and professor of computer science, Brown University. For contributions to computer graphics research and computer science education.

John E. Warnock: Chief executive officer, Adobe Systems Inc. For the invention and implementation of technologies for computer graphics, printing and publishing.