SIGs Announce Candidates For Election

In accordance with ACM Bylaw 6, the following SIGs will hold elections in 2007: SIGAPP, SIGART, SIGBED, SIGecom, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN.

ACM Policy and Procedures require that those SIGs holding elections notify their membership of candidates for elected offices. Here is a list of SIG(s) that have submitted their slate of candidates in addition to those SIGs listed in the February issue of Communications (p.80).

SIGAPP

Chair
George Angelos Papadopoulos
Barrett R. Bryant

Vice-Chair
Sung Shin
Brajendra Panda

Secretary
Ronaldo Menezes
Lorie Liebrock

Treasurer
Chang-Hyun Jo
Mathew J. Palakal

SIGART

Chair
Robert St. Amant
Maria Gini

Vice-Chair
Kiri Wagstaff
Terran Lane

Secretary/Treasurer
Ani Nenkova
Gautam Biswas

SIGBED

Chair
Alan Burns
Lothar Thiele

Vice-Chair
Tarek F. Abdelzaher
Jens Palsberg

Secretary/Treasurer
Stephen A. Edwards
George J. Pappas

SIGecom

Chair
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
David M. Pennock

Vice-Chair
Joan Feigenbaum

Secretary/Treasurer
John Chuang
Amy Greenwald

SIGOPS

Chair
Doug Terry
Candidate to be announced

Vice-Chair
Miguel Castro
Frank Bellosa

Secretary/Treasurer
Thomas C. Bressoud
John H. Hartman

SIGPLAN

Chair
Kathleen Fisher
Oliver Danvy

Vice-Chair
Chandra Krintz

Member-at-Large
Cristina Cifuentes
Koen De Bosschere
Amer Diwan
Greg Morrisett
J. Eliot B. Moss
Steve Zdancewic
Benjamin G. Zorn

In accordance with the SIG Bylaws, additional candidates may be placed on the ballot by petition. All candidates must be Professional members of ACM, as well as members of the SIG. Anyone interested in petitioning must inform ACM Headquarters (Pat Ryan, ACM, 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, N.Y., N.Y. 10121) and the SIG Secretary of their intent to petition by March 15th.