CRA-W Co-Chairs:
  • Anne Condon - Co-chair
    Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
  • Mary Lou Soffa - Co-chair
    Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh

CRA-W Members and Projects:

  • Francine Berman - Steering Committee member, Super Mentoring Workshop Transcripts
    Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California San Diego
  • Anita Borg - Liaison with the Institute for Women in Technology
    Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center
  • Sheila Castaneda - Collaborative Research Environment for Women in Undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering (CREW)
    Computer Science Department, Clarke College
  • Jan Cuny - Steering Committee member, Undergraduate Awards, Fund Raising
    Department of Computer and Info. Science, University of Oregon
  • Carla Ellis - Distinguished Lecture Series, Grad Student Recruiting
    Computer Science Department, Duke University
  • Faith E. Fich - Canadian Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
    University of Toronto
  • Joan Francioni - Editor of the Expanding the Pipeline column
    Department of Computer Science, Winona State University
  • Mary Jean Harrold - Distributed Mentoring Project
    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Governments Affairs member
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
  • Leah Jamieson - Steering Committee member, Professional Society Leadership
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
  • Nancy G. Leveson - Steering Committee member, Academic-systers
    Department of Aeronautica and Astronautics, MIT
  • Susan Owicki - CRA-W Women's Database(WDB)
    Strategic Technologies and Architectural Research Laboratory, InterTrust Technologies Corporation
  • Ann Redelfs - Public Relations and Web Documents, Careers Booklet printing and distribution, PACI CRA-W activities
    San Diego Supercomputer Center
  • Valerie Taylor - Liaison to Coalition for Diversifying Computing (CDC)



Anne Condon: Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia

Anne Condon is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and is on leave from the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin. She received her Ph. D. (1987) from the University of Washington, Seattle and B. Sc. (1982) from University College, Cork, Ireland. Her Ph.D. thesis on game-like computational models won an ACM Distinguished Dissertation award. She also received an NSF National Young Investigator Award (1992) and an NSF Visiting Professorships for Women Award (1996) to support her work.
Condon's research focuses on the power of randomness in computation. Through classification of randomized and nondeterministic complexity classes, her work has led to improved understanding of what types of intractable problems can be approximated and/or computed efficiently, notably PSPACE-hard problems and also problems in probabilistic planning.

In 1995, Anne initiated the Wisconsin DNA Computing Project. A goal of this research, which involves chemists, materials scientists, and computer scientists at U. Wisconsin is to store digital information in surface-bound DNA molecules in a scalable fashion and to perform logical operations on that information using enzymatic and chemical processes, thereby "computing" with DNA. She has also contributed to the Wisconsin Multifacet Project, where, as the theoretician of the group, her work focuses on reasoning about the correctness of cache coherence protocols.

When she gets the chance, Anne loves singing in choirs, most recently in Womonsong, Madison, WI and The Washingtonians, Seattle, WA. She likes to travel, especially to Ireland, and to ride her bike wherever possible.
Mary Lou Soffa: Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh

Mary Lou Soffa received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977. Since that time, she has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Department. She served as the Graduate Dean in Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh from 1991 through 1996. In 1999, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. She also was elected an ACM Fellow in 1999. In 1987 she received an NSF Professorship for Women award.
She currently serves on the editorial board for IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, International Journal of Parallel Programming, Computer Languages and the South African Journal of Computing.

She serves as Vice President for the Computing Research Association (CRA) and also as co-chair of the CRA's Committee on the Status of Women in CSE. She is currently a member-at-large for ACM SIGBoard. She has served as conference chair, program chair and program committee member for conferences in both programming languages and software engineering. Her research interests include optimizing and parallelizing compilers, program analysis, and software tools for debugging and testing programs.