Carl K. Chang, editor in chief, is chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University in Ames. He served as editor in chief for IEEE Software (1991-1994) and has cofounded and chaired several IEEE and non-IEEE International conferences. The Computer Society's 2004 president, he also held terms as vice president for Education Activities, vice president for Press Activities, and secretary of the Board of Governors and has served on numerous committees and task forces. Chang has published extensively in both software engineering and net-centric computing. An IEEE and AAAS Fellow, he received a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University.
Sumi Helal, Associate Editor in Chief and area editor for networking, is a professor of computer and information science and engineering at the University of Florida. He is co-founder and director of the Gator Tech Smart House, an experimental home for applied pervasive computing research in the domain of elder care. Additionally, he is founder, president, and CEO of Phoneomena, a mobile application and middleware company. Helal, who earned a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, is a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the ACM and USENIX.
Bill Schilit, Associate Editor in Chief, is the Special Issues editor and the editor of the Invisible Computing column. His interests include ubiquitous computing and mobile and distributed systems, with a research focus in the development of smart personal and mobile technologies supporting knowledge work. He received a PhD in computer science from Columbia University.
Kathleen Swigger, Associate Editor in Chief and Research Features editor, is a professor of computer science at the University of North Texas. Her research areas include computer-supported cooperative work, human factors, and artificial intelligence, specifically intelligent interfaces. She is the recipient of numerous grants from NSF, ARPA, the State of Texas, the Department of Education, and private foundations for the development and evaluation of computer-supported cooperative problem-solving environments for both schools and work. Swigger also has substantial experience working with both industry and military leaders. She received a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Iowa.
Bob Colwell, Perspectives editor, was Intel's chief IA32 architect through the Pentium II, III, and 4 microprocessors. He is now an independent consultant. He received a BSEE from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSEE and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
Rohit Kapur, Computing Practices editor, is a Principal Engineer for test automation products at Synopsys. He is also the chair of one of two task forces of the IEEE P1500 standardization activities for Embedded Core Test. He received a BSc in electronics and communication engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India, and an MS and a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ron Vetter, Computer's Web editor and an Advisory Panel member, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is also an associate technical editor for IEEE Communications Magazine. Vetter received a BS and an MS in computer science from North Dakota State University, Fargo, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communications Society, and the ACM. In 1998, Vetter was selected as an ACM Distinguished Lecturer and elevated to the grade of senior member in the IEEE.
Jean Bacon, area editor for distributed systems, is professor of distributed systems at the UK’s University of Cambridge. Computer Laboratory. She is author of Concurrent Systems (Addison Wesley, first edition 1993, second edition 1998.) Bacon is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She served on the IEEE Computer Society’s Board of Governors from 2002 to 2007, and was founding editor in chief of IEEE Distributed Systems Online (DS Online).
Oliver Bimber, area editor for graphics and multimedia, is the head of the Institute for Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He received a PhD in engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Bimber is a recipient of several scientific achievement awards and is member of the IEEE, the ACM, ACM Siggraph, and Eurographics. His research interests include next-generation display technologies, real-time rendering and human-computer interaction.
Kirk W. Cameron, Green IT column editor, is an associate professor of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He directs the SCAPE Laboratory at Virginia Tech where he pioneered the area of high-performance, power-aware computing to improve the efficiency of high-end systems. Cameron received a BS in math from the University of Florida and a PhD in computer science from Louisiana State University.
Tom Conte, Embedded Computing column editor, is a professor in the Georgia Tech College of Computing's School of Computer Science. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers from 2000 to 2004 and as editor in chief of the Journal of Instruction Level Parallelism from 2000 to 2005. Conte’s research interests range from compiler design to advanced microarchitectures. His research is or has been supported by DARPA, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, TI, Sun, NASA, and the NSF. Conte received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Daniel E. Cooke, area editor for software, is a professor and chairman of the Computer Science Department, Texas Tech University, and Program Manager for NASA's National Strategic Initiative for Intelligent Systems. A recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and a founding board member of the Society of Design and Process Science, Cooke's research interests focus on developing and advancing fundamental computer science research to enable future human and nonhuman exploration, intelligent data understanding to better enable analysis of satellite data sets, and revolutionary computing. He received PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Robert B. France, area editor for software, is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1998. His research interests include model-driven development, aspect-oriented development, and formal methods. He serves as co-editor in chief of Software and System Modeling. He received a BSc from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, and a PhD in computer science from Massey University, New Zealand.
Vladimir Getov, area editor for high-performance computing, is a professor of distributed and high-performance computing at the UK’s University of Westminster. He has headed the Distributed and Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Westminster since 1996, and was a founding member of the Java Grande Forum in 1998, Getov also led the Java Grande Message Passing Group, which produced the Message Passing for Java (MPJ) specification. He is a member of the CoreGrid executive committee and leads the the European Institute on Grid Systems, Tools, and Environments. Getov received a PhD in computer science from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
David Alan Grier, editor of the monthly The Known World column, is an associate dean of international affairs in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. An active member of the IEEE Computer Society, he has written a book titled When Computers Were Human, has authored numerous other publications including magazine articles and book chapters, and has presented numerous invited talks and conference tutorials. He received a BA in mathematics from Middlebury College and an MS in statistics and a PhD from the University of Washington.
Michael G. Hinchey, Software Technologies column editor, is the codirector of Lero—the Irish Software Engineering Research Center. An active member of the IEEE Computer Society, he has served as a CS voting representative to IFIP TC1 since 1999 (of which he has been elected chair for 2006 to 2008) and currently is vice chair of the CS Technical Activities Board and chair of the CS Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing. Hinchey received a BSc in computer science from the University of Limerick, Ireland, an MSc in computation from the University of Oxford, England, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge, England. In addition to having contributed numerous publications to refereed journals and magazines, Hinchey has served as the author, editor, or contributor to several books and patents.
Neville Holmes, editor of The Profession column, is an Honorary Research Associate of, and lecturer under contract at, the University of Tasmania's School of Computing. After examining patents for two years, he joined IBM Australia in 1959 and worked at first with punched card systems in IBM's Service Bureau. He worked in various technical roles for IBM for thirty years, mostly in various parts of Australia. Since early retirement in 1988, he has been lecturing in Launceston. A member of the IEEE and the ACM, Holmes received a BEE from the University of Melbourne and an MCogSc from the University of New South Wales.
Richard G. Mathieu, editor of the IT Systems Perspectives column, is the McDonald Bradley Fellow and Chair of the Department of Computer Information Systems and Management Science at James Madison University. His research interests include emerging technologies, critical success factors in enterprise software systems, and the integration of research between operations and information systems. He is the author of Manufacturing and the Internet, and serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics - Part A. Mathieu received a PhD and MS in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and a BSCE from the University of Delaware.
Erich Neuhold, area editor for databases and information retrieval, is a professor of computer science, and integrated publication and information systems at the Darmstadt University of Technology, where he served as director of the Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute from 1986 to 2005. His primary research and development interests are in heterogeneous multimedia database systems in peer-to-peer and grid environments, web technologies, content engineering, and persistent information and knowledge repositories. Neuhold received a PhD in mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Vienna.
Naren Ramakrishnan, Advisory Panel member and area editor for information and data management, is a professor and associate head for graduate studies in the Department of computer science at Virginia Tech. His research interests include computational science, mining scientific data, and information personalization. He received his Ph.D. in computer sciences from Purdue University.
Steven K. Reinhardt is a Fellow in AMD's Research and Advanced Development Labs and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Michigan. His research interests include computer system architecture. Reinhardt has a PhD in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Simon S.Y. Shim, Web Technologies column editor, is a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. His areas of expertise include high-speed security servers, internet computing, network storage systems, multimedia databases, and SAN. He received PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota.
Ann E. Kelley Sobel is an associate professor of computer science and software engineering at Miami University. She is an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Board of Governors, and serves on the IEEE Frontiers in Education steering committee, the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training steering committee, and the ACM SIGCSE program committee. Sobel has authored two books on computing education, as well as numerous periodical and conference articles. She received an MS and a PhD in computer science from Ohio State University.
Savitha Srinivasan, area editor for multimedia, is the manager of content protection at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where she defines new research areas in content protection, defines the relevance of copy protection to nonmedia industries, and is actively involved with content protection standards activities. Srinivasan is the author of several publications and patents in speech recognition-related applications and multimedia information retrieval and is the recipient of IBM's Second Plateau Invention Achievement Award and IBM's Research Division Group Technical Award. She received an MS in computer science from Pace University.
Jeffrey Voas, security column editor, is the director of systems assurance at SAIC, where he is a technical Fellow. Before joining SAIC, Voas was chief scientist and cofounder of Cigital. He served as IEEE Reliability Society president in 2003, 2004, and 2005. Voas holds two US patents and has authored more than 190 publications. He received an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and an MS and PhD in computer science from the College of William and Mary.
Thomas Cain is on the electrical and computer engineering faculties at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are real-time systems, embedded systems, and educational methods. He is one of the founders, and served as president, of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board. An IEEE fellow, he has served as IEEE president and Computer Society acting president, among other positions.He holds a PhD in electrical engineering.
Doris L. Carver, Editor in Chief Emeritus, is the associate vice chancellor of the Office of Research and Economic Development at Louisiana State University. The Computer Society's 1998 president, she is a member of the Society's Distinguished Visitors Program, the Computer Society/ACM Steering Committee for Computing Curricula 2001, and Vice-Chair of the Computer Society Fellows Committee. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. An IEEE fellow, she received a BS in mathematics from Carson-Newman College, an MS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and a PhD in computer science from Texas A&M University.
Ralph K. Cavin III is vice president for research operations at the Semiconductor Research Corporation. He has been a professor of electrical engineering and assistant head for the department's research at Texas A&M University; a senior engineer at the Martin-Marietta Company; director of design sciences research programs at SRC; and head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His professional interests span VLSI circuit design, computer-aided design of microelectronic systems, control theory with applications to semiconductor manufacturing, and applications of computing and telecommunications to engineering education. Cavin received a BSEE and MSEE from Mississippi State University and a PhD in electrical engineering from Auburn University. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
Ronald G. Hoelzeman is a professor of computer and electrical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a systems engineer at Westinghouse Electric, where he designed process-control systems. A past president of the Computer Society, he has also served as the Society's secretary, treasurer, vice president for publications, and vice president of education. He has been the IEEE vice president for education, an IEEE director, and a member of the IEEE Spectrum Editorial Board. He received a BS, MS, and PhD, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Pittsburgh.
Alfred C. Weaver is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where he directs the department's Computer Networks Laboratory, the University's Internet Commerce Group, and founded the state's Internet Technology Innovation Center. As part of the team that developed the Xpress Transport Protocol, Weaver is interested in network protocols, telemedicine, and e-commerce. His current research centers on secure, available, reliable e-business systems. Weaver has been an IEEE Fellow since 1996, and his Fellow citation reads, "For contributions to the design of computer communications protocols." He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois and is a member of the IEEE Computer, Communications, and Industrial Electronics Societies.
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