Congratulations to UW CSE professor Paul Beame, who has just been elected Chair of SIGACT, the ACM special interest group on the theory of computing.
UW CSE has a long history of ACM SIG leadership – including Jean-Loup Baer as Chair of SIGARCH (computer architecture), Ed Lazowska as Chair of SIGMETRICS (computer system performance evaluation), Hank Levy as Chair of SIGOPS (operating systems), and David Notkin as Chair of SIGSOFT (software engineering).