Carolyn Talcott is a Program Manager in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International, where she leads the Symbolic Systems Technology group and the Pathway Logic Project. Prior to coming to SRI, she was a Senior Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. At SRI Carolyn is leading research in symbolic systems biology, security protocol analysis, and formal analysis applied to embedded systems and next-generation networks. Symbolic systems biology involves using logical formalisms to represent knowledge and theories about biological system and using formal methods tools to analyze the resulting models and compare predictions to experimental observations.

Carolyn is co-editor-in-chief the International Journal Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation. She regularly serves on program committees of international conferences, and co-organized several DARPA and NSF workshops. She has given invited lectures at universities and research institutions in the US, Europe, Australia, Japan, and Korea.

Carolyn holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1985) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (1966). She has over 20 years experience in formal modeling and analysis. For the last 6 years she has also been working in symbolic systems biology. She is the (co) author of more than 100 papers on topics including mathematics, theoretical chemistry, semantics, actors, networks, and computational biology. She enjoys swimming and playing the flute. She has one son who is now attending San Francisco State University.

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Janet Wiener is a Research Expert in databases and distributed systems at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. She currently does research in and consults for HP's Neoview data warehousing product in the areas of query workload management, performance monitoring, and materialized views. While Janet started her career in databases at Wisconsin and managed research in data warehousing at Stanford from 1995-1998, she loves exploring different areas and she detoured into large distributed system projects for 8 years before returning to databases.

Janet's first industrial project at Compaq SRC in 1999 was a highly compressed hyperlink repository -- adopted by AltaVista -- which led to research on the structure of the Web. After Compaq merged with HP in 2002, Janet spent several years exploring how to make managing data centers easier, mostly through better scheduling of customer jobs and better performance monitoring and debugging, leading to faster identification of culprit machines or processes that cause problems.

Janet earned her Masters and PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA from Williams College. She enjoys playing games and reading with her husband Mark and their two children, ages 10 and 6. In her extra free time, she loves to dance, swim, and bike and is training for her first century ride next summer.

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Joann J. Ordille is a consulting research scientist in the Software Technology Research Department of Avaya Labs. Her research focuses on creating new technologies that give us choice and power in how we communicate about what is most important and urgent to us. Joann leads the Rome Research Project in right time communication for the enterprise. Through Rome, she created notification and response, exception conferencing, and publish-subscribe services that are used within Avaya. She led an effort that incorporated many of these services into a new Avaya product for communication enabling business processes.

Joann was an early innovator in making it easier to search, integrate and use information available on the Internet for which she received the "10 Year Best Paper Award" at the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference in 2006. She invented meta-directories for which she received the "Best Paper Award" at the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in 1993. She then leveraged that work in creating the first prototype for the Avaya meta-directory product.

Joann is a member of the Board of the Computing Research Associations Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). She has given talks on the future of Internet technologies around the world as a featured speaker in the Bell Labs Seminar Series. She joined Avaya Labs at its birth in 2000 in a spin-off from Bell Labs and previously joined Bell Labs in 1993 after completing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Joann enjoys bicycling, open wheel auto racing, downhill and cross-country skiing, ice skating, scuba diving, and restoring Victorian houses.

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Sihem Amer-Yahia has been a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research since May 2006. Prior to that, she worked for seven years as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs after receiving her Ph.D. in Computer Science from U. Paris XI-Orsay and INRIA, France in 1999. While at AT&T Labs, Sihem worked on XML storage, querying and full-text search. She was one of the main editors of the W3C XQuery Full-Text recommendation and implementor of GalaTex, its conformance implementation. Since joining Yahoo!, Sihem has been focusing on the role of structured data on the Web and the use of techniques at the intersection of databases, information retrieval and recommender systems. In LiveAds, she is looking at enabling the seamless serving of catalog listings and text ads in sponsored search. In GUESTS, she focuses on leveraging common behavior on social content sites to improve users' experience by serving them better content.
Sihem is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer Verlag. She serves on program committees of major database conferences. She is co-chairing the Web 2.0 track at ICDE 2008 and chairing the database track at CIKM 2008.
Sihem's most recent keynote talks are "How Could We All Get Along on the Web 2.0? (The Power of Structured Data on the Web)" at DB/IR NYU Stern, Oct 2006, "What's Hot in working on New Technology: The power of having a user base" at the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference, San Diego, Nov 2006 and "GUESTS: Groups of UsErs going Social in web Two.0 Search" at WebDB 2007 in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD conference.

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VICTORIA STAVRIDOU-COLEMAN is a Vice President within the Corporate Technology Organization of Samsung Electronics. Victoria is in charge of the Computer Science Laboratory in San Jose, CA, which carries out research in next generation web technologies for CE devices and trusted platforms for CE devices.
Prior to coming to Samsung, she was Director for Security Initiatives for Intels Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) where she was responsible for defining the companys roadmap in terms of security innovations and for translating this roadmap to strategic action and product delivery. In this role, Victoria led the formulation of Intels security strategy across all Intels product lines including the mobility, home and digital health segments.
She was previously the Director of the Trusted Platform Laboratory (TPL) within the Corporate Technology Group CTG). Prior to that she was previously the Director of the Trust and Manageability Laboratory in CTG, where she drove innovation across platform trust & manageability for Intels desktop, enterprise and mobile platforms.
Before coming to Intel, Dr Stavridou-Coleman was with SRI International. She joined SRI in 1998 to head up the dependable systems architecture program after 10 years as a tenured professor in the University of London. She became the founding Director of SRIs System Design Laboratory (SDL) in the Information and Computing Sciences Division in 1999. In 2004, she founded the Cybersecurity Research Center on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security.
Victoria started her career with research positions at UMIST and the University of Manchester following which she was appointed to her first tenured faculty position (Lecturer) in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1988. Her last tenured faculty position (Reader) was at Queen Mary College at the University of London.
Victoria holds a BSc in Electronic Computer Systems (Univ of Salford, UK), an MSc in Computer Aided Logic Design (Univ of Salford, UK) and a PhD in the Algebraic Specification and Verification of Digital Systems (Univ of Manchester, UK). She has authored more than 60 articles. She is a member of DARPAs Information Science and Technology advisory group.

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Lisa Marvel is researcher with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is a noted contributor to the fields of image steganography, data hiding, and tamper detection and she is a co-inventor of two patented image steganography techniques. Her current research focuses on methods to detect the presence of steganography in multimedia data. Lisas other research interests include multimedia compression, communications and mobile code technologies. She received her MS and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and her B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a recipient of the General Electric fellowship for graduate studies in 1993 and was honored as the 1994 George W. Laird Fellow at the University of Delaware's College of Engineering. Lisa lives with her husband, Rich, their children, Owen, 5, and Erin, 2, and a menagerie of pets near Marylands Chesapeake Bay. She enjoys gardening, boating and traveling to new places.

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Kate Keahey is a Scientist in the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory and a Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Kates research interests include virtualization and resource management in distributed and Grid computing as well as high-performance computing. Her current activities focus on researching and developing new ways of provisioning and using resources in the Grid via the use of virtualization. She is currently leading the workspace project within the Globus Toolkit, a widely used Grid computing middleware. Kates past projects include co-authoring the WS-Agreement specification, an Open Grid Forum standards on resource management, as well as active participation on the Common Component Architecture (CCA) and work on high-performance extensions to the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). Kate earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Indiana University, and did her under graduate work at the Technical University of Gdansk in Poland. She is the co-organizer and program chair of the Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC) workshop and serves on multiple program committees, among others the usenix VEE, CCGrid and the ICSOC conferences. Kate lives with her family in Naperville, Illinois. She enjoys skiing, leisure travel, and gardening.

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Meredith Ringel Morris is a Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Merrie's research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing. Recently, she has been working on the design, creation, and evaluation of interfaces for cooperative Web search. Other recent projects include the creation and evaluation of novel interaction techniques and interface designs for computationally-enhanced tabletops. Merrie earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, and an Sc.B. in computer science from Brown University. She is currently serving as co-chair of the Demonstrations program for the ACM CSCW 2008 conference, and as a program committee member for the 2007 ACM UIST and IEEE TableTop conferences. She lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her husband, Dan, and her golden retriever puppy, Zoe. She enjoys travel, photography, baking (and eating!) cookies, and teaching Zoe how to swim in Lake Washington.

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Sharon Perl is a Staff Engineer in the Infrastructure and Systems group at Google in Mountain View, California. She works on building distributed systems that enable a variety of Google's user-facing services to be highly reliable, available and efficient. Sharon is currently technical lead for a new system for storing and serving large binary data (e.g., images, videos). She has also worked on software performance tools, and was the first technical lead on the Google Accounts system, which handles sign-on for all personalized Google services. Prior to joining Google in 2001, Sharon worked for 9 years as a researcher at the DEC/Compaq Systems Research Center. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her Bachelor's in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Sharon is currently serving on the program committee for the SOSP 2007 conference, and is helping to organize the first SOSP Women's Workshop in conjunction with SOSP in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Systers electronic community. This workshop is sponsored by CRA-W as one of its Discipline-specific mentoring workshops.
Sharon lives with her husband, Greg, and her 10-year-old daughter, Julia, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, baking, dancing, playing guitar, watching movies, listening to music, hanging out with friends and family, and learning about all kinds of new things.

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Pamela J. Williams is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Computational Sciences and Mathematics Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA. Her research interests include large-scale nonlinear optimization and predictive analytics (data mining). Optimization strategies strive to find the best quantitative measure (commonly referred to as an objective function) of a system given a set of conditions that define an acceptable solution. Pamelas optimization research focuses on the algorithmic development of gradient-based methods to solve simulation-based optimization problems. In addition, she has been involved with a variety of data mining problems ranging from the development of computationally tractable pattern recognition methods to identification of immunological responses at the cellular level to heterogeneous sensor data fusion.
Pamela earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky and received her Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University. She has many interests outside work. She is an avid runner, who has completed five marathons and nine half-marathons. In addition to running, Pamela enjoys cooking, reading, and dancing.

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Tatiana Shpeisman is a senior staff research scientist in the Programming Systems Lab at Intel Corporation. Her current research focuses on new programming paradigms for multi-core architectures that would bring parallel programming into the mainstream. Her driving research interest is in finding ways to simplify software development while improving the program efficiency. She has worked on a diverse set of projects unified by this theme - software transactional memory, dynamic compilation and optimization for managed run-time environments, code generation for the IPF architecture and compiler support for sparse matrix computation.

Tatiana came to the United States from St. Petersburg, Russia. After receiving her Ph.D. in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 she joined Intel and moved to Silicon Valley. Tatiana is married and has a 9-month old son, who is not yet fluent in any programming language. Outside work Tatiana enjoys variety of interests. She is proud to have danced in a full-scale production of the Sleeping Beauty by the Western Ballet. She also enjoys backpacking above the tree line in the Sierras, and traveling around the world.

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Diana K. Smetters is a Senior Member of the Research Staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC). Her research focuses on usability of security, and in particular how to design new cryptographic and security technologies that make it easier to build secure systems that real people can use. Other areas of interest include approaches to key distribution and key management, as well as security for mobile and wireless devices. Before joining PARC in 1999, she worked at CertCo, Inc , designing and building commercial systems to support high-security Public Key Infrastructures.
She received her B.A. in cognitive science from the Ohio State University, her Ph.D. from MIT in computational and experimental neuroscience, and did postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute and Columbia University.

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Tessa Lau is a research staff member in the USER group a t IBM's Almaden Research Centerin San Jose, CA. Her work centers on intelligent user interfaces, a cross-disciplinary field that sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. She is currently serving as Program Co-chair of IUI 2007, the international conference on intelligent user interfaces.
Tessa's research focuses on programming by demonstration, where the goal is to enable regular end users to automate routine tasks simply by demonstrating to the computer what it should do. More generally, she is interested in finding patterns in human behavior and human-centric information and building tools that exploit these patterns to enable people to do more with less work.
After completing a PhD at the University of Washington in 2001, Tessa spent four years at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center just north of New York City. She moved to California in late 2005 to join the USER group and to be closer to family and friends. Outside of work, Tessa pursues a variety of interests including knitting, sewing, going to rock concerts, and flying remote-controlled model airplanes.

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Ann Almgren is a staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, working in computational fluid dynamics. She focuses primarily on numerical simulation of low-speed fluid flow, such as that in the very early stages of a Type Ia supernova prior to ignition. Her research interests are in the development and implementation of specialized algorithms that exploit the mathematical character of the equations and run efficiently on thousands of processors. She earned her Ph.D. in 1991 in the Mechanical Engineering Department at U.C. Berkeley, then spent one year as a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Following that she worked in the Applied Math Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, moving with her research group to LBL in 1996. Ann is married to fellow researcher John Bell, and has identical twin daughters and a son in elementary school, and two step-children in college. Her main interest beyond work and family is soccer, both coaching and playing.

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Susan Landau is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where she concentrates on the interplay between security and public policy. Before joining Sun, Landau was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University. She and Whitfield Diffie have written Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. She is a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and she maintains researcHers, a mailing list for women computer science researchers and the Booklist, a list of computer science books by women computer scientists.

Kathleen Fisher is a Senior Technical Specialist at AT&T Labs Research. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1996. Her research focuses on domain-specific programming languages for processing data and the design, implementation, and theoretical foundation of object-oriented programming languages. She leads the PADS project designed to facilitate the management of ad hoc data. She currently serves as Vice Chair for SIGPLAN and as an editor for the The Journal of Functional Programming. Previously, she was program chair for the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP).

Kathleen is married to Robert Gruber, an engineer at Google. She has a 14-year old daughter Elaine, who is a freshman at Mountain View High School.