Ann Redelfs: Public Relations and Web Documents, Careers Booklet printing and distribution, PACI CRA-W activities
San Diego Supercomputer Center

Ann Redelfs is the director of external relations (ER) and education, outreach, and training (EOT) for NPACI/SDSC. Redelfs' tenure with the supercomputer centers program, always in ER, began in 1986 at the Cornell Theory Center. From there, she directed ER for the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University in Houston, TX, leaving to join SDSC in 1995. Her appointment as EOT director was made in April 1999; she is also a member of the Leadership Team for EOT-PACI, which is a joint EOT effort with NPACI's sister partnership, the National Computational Science Alliance. She currently serves on the SC99 committee and Computer Research Association Subcommittee on Women in Computer Science Research committee.

Ann was raised in Oklahoma, where she developed a love of both science and communicating information about science to the general public. After a short stint as director of public relations for the Oklahoma City Zoo (a job that was always lively!), she started a career in public relations at high performance computing centers, first at Cornell University (Cornell Theory Center), then Rice University (Center for Research on Parallel Computation), and now UC San Diego (San Diego Supercomputer Center -SDSC).

Ann's interests and responsibilities grew over the years to include educational programs and diversity issues. She is currently the director for education at SDSC and its national partnership, NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure), overseeing projects that reach K-12 students and teachers, undergraduate students and faculty, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities---all of which is very rewarding.

Outside of work, Ann has run a couple of marathons, enjoys bicycle riding, and still has a passion for birdwatching.


Valerie Taylor - Liaison to Coalition for Diversifying Computing (CDC)

Valerie E. Taylor received her B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986, respectively. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 1991.

Valerie E. Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University and holds a guest appointment with Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. She has been at Northwestern since 1991. Her research interests are in the areas of computer architecture and high performance computing, with particular emphasis on mesh partitioning for distributed systems and the performance of parallel and distributed applications. She has published over 50 articles in areas related to her research interests.
In 1993, Valerie Taylor received a National Science Foundation ``National Young Investigator'' award. She holds a U.S. patent for her dissertation work on sparse matrices. She also has a copyright for the RAB tool developed at Purdue University. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Co-Chair of the Coalition to Diversity Computing. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance).