Professor Elisa Bertino was elected to a Member-at-Large position on the ACM SIG Governing Board, a volunteer body that has overall responsibility for the Association’s 34 SIGs.
Professor Jan Vitek was elected to serve as the Chair of SIGPLAN, which focuses on Programming Languages. In particular, SIGPLAN explores the design, implementation, theory, and efficient use of programming languages and associated tools. Its members are programming language users, developers, implementers, theoreticians, researchers, and educators. Professor Vitek’s term is July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2015.
Gene Spafford, the director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, said social media has improved communications and convenience, but that people must be vigilant about what they share online and through mobile devices. “We should realize it’s going to large audience, going into storage we don’t know about, government agencies, and other people may be tracking,” he said.