Carla Ellis: Distinguished Lecture Series, Grad Student Recruiting Computer Science Department Duke University Carla Schlatter Ellis is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Duke University. She received the B.S. degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo Oh, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977 and 1979. Before coming to Duke in 1986, she was on the faculty at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1978 to 1980, and at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, from 1980 to 1986. She serves on the ACM Executive Committee and Council and as ACM SIG Governing Board Chair. She was formerly Chair of SIGOPS. Professor Ellis's research is in the area of Operating Systems. Over the course of her career, she has studied storage management for multiprocesssors, file systems for distributed systems, techniques for concurrent access to database indexing structures, and mobile computing. Her current passion involves finding ways to conserve energy and extend the lifetime of batteries for mobile and wireless devices. She calls her current project "Milly Watt" and focuses on power management in the OS and application interface. Professor Ellis has a teenage son. She enjoys outdoor activities, especially mountain biking (including building trails for them on her property), kayaking, cross-country skiing, outdoor photography, gardening, and hiking. She also loves to travel. Faith Fich: Canadian Distributed Mentoring Project(DMP) University of Toronto Faith E. Fich is a professor at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 under the supervision of Richard Karp. >From 1983 to 1986, she was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Washington. Then she joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. She was associate chair of her department from 1992 to 1994. Professor Fich has also spent time working at IBM Research, MIT, and Universite de Paris-Sud. She serves on the editorial board of two journals and is the Vice-chair of SIGACT. Professor Fich's research is in the area of complexity theory. She particularly likes proving lower bounds on the complexity of concrete problems in the areas of data structures, distributed computation, and parallel computation, with the goal of understanding how parameters of various models affect computational power. Professor Fich is married to a professor of Astronomy and they have two children. She enjoys canoeing, hiking, skiing, biking, swimming, gardening, doing crafts, and eating in good restaurants. She is also a member of a book club.