IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors approved 2010 candidates

As announced here on June 9, the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors has approved the slate of candidates for 2010 leadership positions at its meeting on June 5.

So, as an approved candidate for the 2010-2012 term on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors, I was instructed to send Bob Ward, Membership News Editor, some material for being published in the August 10, 2009, IEEE Computer Society ballot mailing and the September 2009 Computer Magazine issue.

I transcript the rest of the announcement:

The Nominations Committee attracted a strong slate of candidates. Vice President of Publications Sorel Reisman and Board of Governors member Jon Rokne will vie for the position of 2010 Computer Society president. Reisman is managing director of MERLOT and professor of information systems at California State University, Fullerton. Rokne is professor of computer science at the University of Calgary.

Roger Fujii, vice president and business unit general manager for Northrop Grumman Information Systems; and Don Shafer, IEEE Computer Society Treasurer and CTO for the Athens Group; will compete for first vice president. Both are completing their first terms on the Board of Governors. Sattupatha Sankaran, Vice President of Chapter Activities and an IT consultant for SAP Labs; and Jeffrey Voas, director of systems assurance at SAIC; are running for the position of second vice president.

IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors candidates include:

• Pierre Bourque, associate professor and director of the master in software engineering program at Ecole de Technologie Superieure
• Elizabeth Burd, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Durham
• José I. Castillo-Velázquez, 2009 head of the Autonomous University of Mexico City's Campus-SLT Engineering Academy
• Thomas M. Conte, professor of computer science at Georgia Tech
• Frank E. Ferrante, adjunct faculty/executive partner, Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary
• Jean-Luc Gaudiot, professor and chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California-Irvine
• Gargi Keeni, vice president of Quality Consulting Practice, Tata Consultancy Services
• Luis Kun, senior research professor of Homeland Security at the Information Resources Management College, National Defense University
• James W. Moore, principal engineer at MITRE Corp.
• Pablo F. Sanchez, CEO of Expértika
• John W. Walz, Lucent Technologies, retired

The Nominations Committee is chaired by Rangachar Kasturi, 2008 IEEE Computer Society president. Article II, Sections 1-9, of the Computer Society's Bylaws set forth the procedures for selection of candidates and election of the Computer Society's officers and members of the Board of Governors.

IEEE Computer Society ballots will be mailed on 10 August. Candidates and their bios will be published in the September issue of Computer magazine.