Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of high performance computing and communication systems. He currently chairs the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group. He is also a member of the Microsoft Research Technical Advisory Board, and serves as a board member or technical advisor to a number of high-tech companies and venture firms. In 2003, President Bush named him to co-chair the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. In 2005, Ed received the Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the computing research community, and the ACM President Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. Less   View all posts

Merrick Furst is professor and associate dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and is co-author of a recent white paper discussing the need for colleges to look into new approaches for helping US computer science graduates and undergraduates compete in the increasingly competitive global business environment. Dr. Furst's innovative ideas for the Georgia Tech Computing program have also been cited by well known author, Thomas L. Friedman, in his book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century." Merrick recently co-founded the anti-botnet startup, Damballa, Inc.. Prior to Georgia Tech he was a professor at UC Berkeley, and president of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley. Earlier he was professor and associate dean in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Less   View all posts