XRDS advisors
The ACM Publications Board feels strongly that XRDS has advisors. How you use the advisory board is up to you. Maybe all they do is read and do a postmortem of each issue. Maybe they sit in on brainstorming meetings/conference calls. Maybe they help connect you to the people you need to interview. In any event, these advisors need to
- be BIG names whenever possible,
- span the globe, and
- represent a) academia and education, b) industry and practitioners, c) and research world.
XRDS advisors and their areas of interest:
- Lorrie Faith Cranor, CMU – lorrie@cs.cmu.edu - Crossroads co-founder and former E-I-C (previously on advisory board). Privacy, security.
- Mark Allman, International Computer Science Institute – mallman@icir.org - previously on the Crossroads advisory board. Network architecture and measurement, security, transport protocols and congestion control.
- Bill Stevenson, industry, Apple – bstevenson@apple.com - one of the founders of Crossroads, previously on advisory board. Project manager of Mac OS X, former Editor-in-Chief of Crossroads, blogger.
- Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford – ullman@cs.stanford.edu - databases, data mining, education. An ACM Fellow for contributions in CS education.
- Moshe Vardi, Rice University – vardi@cs.rice.edu - current editor-in-chief of CACM. Applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite-model theory, knowledge in multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and reasoning.
- Bernard Chazelle, Princeton – chazelle@cs.princeton.edu – algorithms, currently interested in natural algorithms.
- Noam Nisan, Hebrew University – noam.nisan@gmail.com - algorithmic game theory, in particular electronic markets and auctions. Also, theory of CS expert (but no longer active in this area). Blogger (see his blog).
- Alan Dix, Lancaster University – alan@hcibook.com - human computer interaction and AI.
- Dr. Andrew Tuson, City University London, UK – A.Tuson@soi.city.ac.uk - evolutionary computation, neighborhood search optimization, AI. Member of the careers working group of the British Computer Society, author of many online articles on this subject.
- Takis Metaxas, Professor, CS Department, Wellesley College – pmetaxas@wellesley.edu - Web science, CS Education
- David Harel, Professor, Weizmann Institute – dharel@weizmann.ac.il – software engineering and biological models.
Current ideas for XRDS advisors, or people to ask for recommendations for advisors (please add to this and correct the URLs if they are wrong!):
- Eva Tardos, Cornell University
- Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT & Tel Aviv University
- Claire Mathieu, Brown University
- Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
- Profa. Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, University of Sao Paolo – scc@icmc.usp.br generic email address for Computer Science department University of Sao Paolo
- Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
- Brazil – need to find more names from Brazil
- China – please find some names from major Chinese universities
People we approached and refused/didn’t answer:
- Chris Stephenson, Computer Science Teachers Association
- Tara Teich, LucasArts
- Laura Fryer, Warner Bros.
- Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley (see also his ACM recognitions)
- Joel Spolsky, industry, Joel on Software (he’s also on the blog roll for ACM’s Queue)
- Don Norman, Northwestern (retiring Aug. 2010)
- Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow
- Diomidis Spinellis
Names that came up but may no longer be relevant:
- Yossi Matias, Tel Aviv University
- Gil Shwed, industry, Check Point
- Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University
- Daphne Koller, Stanford University
Results of June 2011 advisor poll:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajq-iBILUgyxdHFZSkZiUTk5TDliZDNZVFpJVHlrMWc&hl=en_US#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/gform?key=0Ajq-iBILUgyxdHFZSkZiUTk5TDliZDNZVFpJVHlrMWc&hl=en_US&gridId=0#chart