Robert L. Constable
Dean, Computing and Information Science
Cornell University

Robert L. Constable Robert Constable is the dean for computing and information science, a position established in July 1999. He is helping Cornell forge a university-wide vision for its academic and research initiative in computing and information science. Formerly he was the chairman of the Computer Science Department for six years. He also heads a large research group in automated reasoning and software system verification.

Professor Constable joined the Cornell faculty in 1968. He has supervised over

thirty-five PhD students in computer science, including the very first graduate of the CS department. He is known for his work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, which has led to new ways of automating the production of reliable software. He has written three books on this topic as well as numerous research articles. Professor Constable is a graduate of Princeton University where he worked with Alonzo Church, one of the pioneers of computer science.

Lisa Finneran
Senior Vice President
and Chief Technical Officer
Software Productivity Consortium

Lisa Finneran As Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Lisa Finneran oversees the development of the Consortium's wide-ranging technical program and supports the overall management of the organization. Under Ms. Finneran's direction, the Consortium's technical program of management and technical processes, methods, tools, training, and consulting services helps Consortium member companies and affiliates improve the quality and efficiency of their systems and software engineering programs. Over the course of her fourteen years at the Consortium, Ms. Finneran has worked in and managed many of the Consortium's key technology development projects and has been a lead consultant in supporting member use of Consortium products. Her technical expertise spans the full spectrum of the Consortium technical program, including systems and software engineering, object-oriented methodologies, process improvement methods, and a variety of systems and software lifecycle development technologies.

Ms. Finneran is frequently invited to present Consortium solutions and industry trends to the systems and software engineering community. She has direct interface with Consortium members in key programs helping to improve the way in which their software-intensive systems are developed.

Ms. Finneran is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She also serves as a reviewer for IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, and The Journal for Systems and Software.

Thomas C. Henderson
Director, School of Computing
University of Utah

Thomas C. Henderson Thomas C. Henderson received the B.S. degree (with Honors) in mathematics from Louisiana State University in 1973 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1979. He was a Research Fellow for one year at the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DFVLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and a Visiting Professor for one year at the National Institute for Research on Informatics and Control Theory (INRIA) at Roquencourt, France. In 1982 he joined the University of Utah, where he is currently Professor and Director of the School of Computing.

Professor Henderson is the author of Discrete Relaxation Techniques (University of Oxford Press), and editor of Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors (Springer-Verlag); he serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Dr. Henderson is a Senior Member of the IEEE. His major research interests include autonomous systems, robot behavior specification, and large-scale simulation.

Russell Housley
Sr. Consulting Architect
RSA Laboratories

Russell Housley Mr. Housley is a Senior Consulting Architect at RSA Laboratories, and coauthor of "Planning for PKI" published by John Wiley & Sons. He has over 20 years of communications and computer security experience. His expertise is in security protocols, system engineering, system security architectures, and product definition. He is the chairman of the IETF S/MIME Working Group. He is the author of the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), the security foundation for S/MIME version 3. He is one of the authors of the Internet X.509 Certificate Profile (RFC 2459), commonly called PKIX Part 1. He contributes to the development of security standards for the financial industry (ANSI X9F). He is one of the authors of the SDNS Message Security Protocol (MSP), the security cornerstone of the U.S. Defense Message System (DMS). He is one of the authors of the IEEE series of LAN/MAN security standards (IEEE 802.10), and he is currently working with IEEE 802.11 on security for wireless LANs. He was a member of the President's Export Council - Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC).

Sorin Istrail
Senior Director
Informatics Research
Celera Genomics

Sorin Istrail Sorin Istrail is a computer scientist who has been working in a variety of areas of computer science, biology, physics and chemistry. For several well-studied basic computer science problems, and is the author or co-author of the fastest algorithms to date for these problems. He has work in the areas of computational linguistics, automata theory, parallel algorithms and architectures, semantics of parallel programming languages, programming logic, complexity theory and derandomization, combinatorics, graph theory, voting theory, game theory, genomic mapping, protein folding, biomolecular sequence alignment, biomaterials, combinatorial chemistry, structural proteomics, SNPs and haplotypes, and algorithms for vaccine design. Recently, he resolved a longstanding open problem in statistical mechanics, the Three-Dimensional Ising Model Problem, showing the impossibility of deriving explicit formulas for every three-dimensional model.

Sorin Istrail has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Bucharest, Romania. After his immigration to the US, he was a visiting scientist at MIT and also taught at Wesleyan University. He joined Sandia Labs in 1992 where he held several positions, including Principal Senior Member of the Technical Staff. From 1992 to 2000, he led the Sandia Labs research in genomics and structural proteomics within the DOE MICS Computational Biology Project. In April 2000, he joined Celera Genomics, where he is Senior Director of Informatics Research.

He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Biology, Co-Founder and General Vice-Chair of the RECOMB Conference Series, and Co-Editor of the MIT Press Computational Molecular Biology Book Series.

Craig Janus
Vice President
Center for Intormation Systems
Mitretek Systems

Craig Janus As Vice President, Mr. Janus oversees the service delivery, financial management, and business development initiatives for the Center for Information Systems. Mr. Janus directs work programs related to information technology systems design and engineering. The Center has unique qualifications in the areas of acquisition support, systems development, strategic planning, knowledge management, biometrics, converged network technologies, prototype development, modeling, Internet and e-commerce systems, information security and assurance, and economic impact analysis. Principal clients include: the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, Department of Labor, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Administration, U.S. Marines, and the University of Maryland.

Mr. Janus comes to Mitretek Systems from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he held the position of Vice President and Chief Technologist. At SAIC, Mr. Janus had senior management responsibility for a number of information and telecommunications programs in both the federal and private sectors, including the Technical Management and Support contract awarded by GSA to assist government agencies with network transition activities related to FTS 2001 and other telecommunications initiatives. Janus was also instrumental in the award to SAIC of the Entergy Services Outsourcing contract for which Entergy Services, one of the nation's largest public utilities, outsourced all of its information technology services. As principal solutions architect and leader for the telecommunications and information technology infrastructure areas, he was responsible for developing the program's service delivery methodology, service transition plan, pricing approach, program staffing, and creation of the program's service level agreements and other performance metrics. Janus also managed SAIC's Integrated Data Communications Utility, one of the nation's largest private data communications networks providing X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, network management, network security, and related services to the Department of Veteran's Affairs.

During the mid 90's, Mr. Janus served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology officer at American Network Exchange (AMNEX) in Orlando, Florida. There he directed the company's technological and business operations and oversaw the company's growth into new markets. Janus developed and implemented business processes and technologies in the areas of network operations, engineering, customer service, fraud control, network security, and management information systems that significantly improved operating costs. Janus was the principal architect and senior executive responsible for the migration to a distributed client/server computing environment. Under his direction, AMNEX was one of the first to offer near real-time traffic and revenue reports to its customers electronically and ultimately via the World Wide Web. Janus also designed and launched the company's highly successful 1+, Sent-Paid program, the first of its kind in the country to be operated by a carrier not affiliated with the former Bell System.

Following his honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps in 1984, Mr. Janus held a variety of senior technical and executive positions for such companies as Sprint, MFS (WorldCom), and Cleartel.

Mr. Janus received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Columbia Union College where he graduated Cum Laude and his Master of Science in Information and Telecommunications Systems from Johns Hopkins University where he graduated with a 4.0 GPA. He has published a number of articles on information and telecommunications technologies, business trends, security and fraud control.

Mr. Janus is a practitioner faculty at Johns Hopkins University where he develops curriculum and teaches graduate-level studies in information technology, telecommunications, and business at the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.

Jane D. Newell
Internet Security Systems, Inc.

Jane D. Newell Jane Newell is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and has spanned the years since with a variety of technology positions in banking, government, energy and technology sectors. She is currently in Atlanta with Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) where she has established the project management program and business processes in support of the company's infrastructure growth.

Prior to her joining ISS, Ms. Newell had served as a program manager with NCR Corporation; managed planning and information services for an energy authority in Georgia, established a decision support, analytic, and application development unit for Union Bank of Switzerland; and provided business consulting for projects in system development and information analysis for Chase Manhattan Bank. In her early career she developed logistics models for the Department of Defense.

Ms. Newell earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from George Washington University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a member of the Technology Association of Georgia and the Project Management Institute. Today, Ms. Newell serves as an officer of several community organizations including the American Association of University Women (Atlanta Branch) and her local Toastmasters club.

Lucy T. Nowell, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Lucy T. Nowell Dr. Nowell is a Chief Scientist responsible for leading research and managing projects for the Rich Interaction Environments and Information Analytics groups at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Most of her research centers on applying her knowledge of visual design, perceptual psychology, human-computer interaction, and information retrieval to problems of understanding and navigating in large information spaces, including digital libraries. Currently, she manages the Information Extraction Visualization project and the Glass Box Analysis project, and she provides human-computer interaction expertise to a variety of projects, including the, the NT Analytical Tools project. Other recent experience includes work with Battelle Visual Informatics (e.g., bioinformatics), the Information Synthesis Platform, the P1000 project on applying neurosciences research to information visualization design, and the NASA WebTheme project.

Dr. Nowell joined Battelle and PNNL in August 1998, after a career as a professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia, where she taught a wide variety of courses in Computer Science and Theatre. She also headed the Theatre program and later chaired the Computer Science Department. While pursuing graduate degrees at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, she worked as a Research Scientist in the Digital Libraries Research Laboratory and also interned with the Digital Libraries team at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Laboratories in Hawthorne, NY.

Dr. Nowell has a PhD and MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, where she maintained a dual emphasis on human-computer interaction and information storage and retrieval. Her doctoral research centered on perceptual issues in information visualization. She won the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science Award for Scholarly Performance in Graduate Study (Distinguished Dissertation) for her dissertation. She also has a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatrical design from the University of New Orleans and the MA and BA in Theatre from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she was a Graduate Council Fellow and Alumni Honors Scholar.

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
RAND Corporation

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation, a not-for-profit company doing high-quality, high-impact research in the public interest. At RAND, she works on policy and decision-making issues that help organizations and government agencies understand whether and how information technology supports their mission and goals.

Since 1982, Dr. Pfleeger has been president of Systems/Software, Inc., a consultancy specializing in software engineering and technology. From 1997 to 2000, she was also a visiting professor at the University of Maryland's computer science department. In the past, she was founder and director of Howard University's Center for Research in Evaluating Software Technology (CREST), and was a visiting scientist at the City University (London) Centre for Software Reliability, principal scientist at MITRE Corporation's Software Engineering Center, and manager of the measurement program at the Contel Technology Center. She began her career as a developer and maintainer for real-time, business-critical software systems. Thus, she has experience both with the practical problems of software development and the theoretical underpinnings of software engineering and computer science. Pfleeger is well-known for her work in empirical studies of software engineering and for her multi-disciplinary approach to solving information technology problems.

For several years, Dr. Pfleeger was associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Software, where she edited the Quality Time column, and then associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. From 1998 to 2002, she was a member of the editorial board of Prentice Hall's Software Quality Institute series. A member of IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery, Pfleeger was elected to the executive committee of the Technical Council on Software Engineering from 1996 to 2000. Frequently invited to give keynote presentations and tutorials at conferences, Pfleeger was the general chair of the Second International Symposium on Software Metrics (in London, England) and the program co-chair of the Fourth International Symposium on Software Metrics (in Albuquerque, New Mexico). She and Dr. Jarrett Rosenberg (Sun Microsystems) chaired the Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Engineering, WESS98. Pfleeger will be program co-chair of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, to be held in Amsterdam in 2003.

Dr. Pfleeger has been named repeatedly by the Journal of Systems and Software as one of the world's top software engineering researchers. Among her books are Introduction to Discrete Structures (with David Straight; Wiley, 1985), Software Engineering: The Production of Quality Software (Macmillan, 1987 and 1991), Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach (with Nornan Fenton; PWS Publishing, 1997), Applying Software Metrics (with Paul Oman; IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997), and Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (second edition, Prentice Hall, 2001). She is a co-author, with Les Hatton and Chuck Howell, of Solid Software (Prentice Hall PTR, 2001), about how to manage projects building safety-critical software. Her next book, Security in Computing, third edition, co-authored by Charles Pfleeger, will be published by Prentice Hall in November 2002.

Debra J. Richardson
Department Chair
Information and Computer Science
University of California at Irvine

Image Debra J. Richardson is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine and holds the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Endowed Chair. She received the B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego in 1976, with the intention of teaching high school math. She became interested in computer science, however, and chose to attend graduate school. An urge to leave California (native born and raised) sent her east, planning to get an M.S. and return west within two years. She received her M.S. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts in 1978, and then stayed on for the Ph.D., which she received in 1981. Not quite ready to leave, in part because she was starting "lock" for the national champion women's rugby team, she joined the COINS faculty as a "visiting" professor. Six years later, it was time to stop visiting! Debra returned home to Orange County, joining the UCI faculty in 1987.

Dr. Richardson pioneered research in "specification-based testing", whereby formal specifications and methods are employed to guide and evaluate software testing and analysis. She has been investigating software testing for over 15 years. Her current work focuses on enabling specification-based testing technology throughout the software lifecycle, from requirements and architecture analysis through operation and evolution. She has developed leading edge tools, and has worked with several companies in adopting technology to improve the quality of critical software systems.

Dr. Richardson has worked with several companies in adopting technology for improving the quality of their software products and processes. While on sabbatical in 1996, she directed the Quality Enabling Software Technology (QuEST) study at the Microelectronics and Computer Technolgy Corporation (MCC). Out of this study, grew the Quest project, whose goal is to study, transition, evaluate, integrate, and improve software testing and analysis tools and technologies for enabling and enhancing software quality. Richardson was recently named to the Board of Directors of Cotelligent, Inc., a leading provider of mobile business solutions, services and wireless hosting based in San Francisco.

She is currently director of MICRO (Microelectronics Innovation and Computer Research Opportunities), the first industry-university cooperative research program in the University of California (about to celebrate it's 20th anniversary). She is also a founding member of the UC Institute for Software Research (an Organized Research Unit). She currently serves UCI on the Committee on Committees and recently served as a member of UCI's Academic Senate Cabinet and as chair of UCI's Council on Educational Policy.

Richardson has served on several program committees, in particular on the series of International Symposia on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA and TAV - General Chair in 2000), and the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE - General Chair in 2001), as well as the ACM SIGSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), the International Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD - Program Chair in 2000), and the Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Practice (FMSP - General Chair in 2000).

Steven L. Salzberg
Senior Director of Bioinformatics
The Institute for Genomic Research

Steven L. Salzberg Dr. Steven L. Salzberg is the Senior Director of Bioinformatics at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland. He is also Research Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Research Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins. TIGR is a nonprofit, basic research institute devoted to the sequencing and analysis of human, animal, plant, and microbial genomes to better understand the role that genes play in evolution, development, human disease, and all other aspects of life.

Dr. Salzberg received his B.A. degree in English and M.S. and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Following his Ph.D. studies, he joined the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor in 1989. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996, and has been a Research Professor since 1999. In 1997 he joined TIGR as an Investigator in the Bioinformatics Department, and he assumed the role of Director of Bioinformatics in 1998.

Through much of his early career, Dr. Salzberg's interests focused on machine learning and its applications to fields ranging from astronomy to molecular biology. His interest in the human genome project motivated him to develop one of the first computational gene-finding systems for the human genome in the mid-1990s. His initial collaborations with TIGR at that time led to the development of a microbial gene-finding system that was subsequently used to annotate the genomes of the Lyme disease bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the syphilis bacterium Treponema pallidum, M. tuberculosis, V. cholerae, and over 30 more microbial genomes that have been completed since then. Dr. Salzberg and his research team developed a eukaryotic gene finder, first used for Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite, and later adapted to many other eukaryotes, including plants and animals. His group has also developed systems for large-scale genome sequence alignment, operon discovery, and recognition of regulatory sequences. He has formed a Genome Archaeology group at TIGR that studies genome duplications, rearrangements, and other evolutionary phenomena in a wide range of organisms.

Dr. Salzberg has authored or co-authored two books and over 80 publications in leading scientific journals and conferences, and is currently on the Editorial Boards of three journals. His group has developed and released two major gene finding systems, Glimmer and GlimmerM, and a sequence alignment system, MUMmer, each of which has been distributed to many hundreds of scientific laboratories around the globe.

Personal information: Dr Salzberg is married to Claudia Salzberg (nee Pasche) with two children. His interests include tennis, golf, and the history of polar exploration.
 

Bobby Schnabel
Vice Chancellor
Academic and Campus Technology
University of Colorado, Boulder

Bobby Schnabel is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Campus Technology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In this position he serves as founding director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS), an innovative campus-wide enterprise that serves as a catalyst for multidisciplinary curricular, research and outreach activities involving the content and tools of information technology. He also serves as chief information officer for the campus, with responsibilities including planning and oversight for information technology and educational technology.

Dr. Schnabel has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1977, and has been active in teaching, research, professional service, and university service and administration. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of scientific and parallel computation, including applications to molecular chemistry problems. He has received the University of Colorado Teaching Recognition Award, awarded by students, in 1980, and the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Teaching Award, awarded by faculty, in 1987. He is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of numerical optimization and is the author of over 100 technical papers and has given over 50 invited conference presentations. He has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on approximately $13M in competitive research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and other agencies. His book co-authored with J.E. Dennis Jr., "Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization and Nonlinear Equations", is a standard reference in the optimization field and has been translated into Russian. He has served as associate editor or co-editor of five journals and on many professional committees and boards. Currently he serves as section editor of the Education Section of flagship journal of the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics, SIAM Review; as vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Universities Space Research Association; as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association; and as chair of the Information Technology Deans group of CRA.

Dr. Schnabel served as chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1990 to 1995, and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science from 1995 to 1997. He has been particularly active in diversity-related activities, including chairing the diversity strategic planning process, and major strategic planning committees for the Minority Engineering Program and the Women in Engineering Program, in the College of Engineering. Schnabel was awarded the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Service Award in 1998.

Dr. Schnabel received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1971, summa cum laude, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University in 1975 and 1977, respectively.

Kevin Schofield
Microsoft Research

Kevin SchofieldKevin Schofield is Director of Technology Strategy for Microsoft Research. He is responsible for technology transfer between the research division and Microsoft's product units and for driving strategies for future research agendas. Mr. Schofield joined Microsoft in 1988; prior to signing on with Microsoft Research in 1997, he worked on a variety of products, including networking, operating systems, and multimedia authoring tools. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, and his primary research interest is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Mr. Schofield has been an active member of the HCI research community for many years; he is currently serving as Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), and he co-chaired the 1996 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.