May 8, 2003
UW’s Lazowska selected to lead President Bush’s IT Advisory Committee
President George W. Bush has selected a University of Washington computer scientist as co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, the White House announced today.
Edward D. Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, will serve a two-year term on the committee, which provides the president with advice on maintaining U.S. leadership in advanced information technologies.
“Continued leadership in information technology is vital to the nation,” Lazowska said. “PITAC has played an important role in guiding federal policy in this arena, and I’m delighted to have been appointed to the committee.”
Lazowska is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a member of the UW faculty since 1977. In 1998, he was given the UW Outstanding Public Service Award. He chaired the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering in the College of Engineering from 1993-2001, and in 2000 was named the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair.
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For more information, contact Lazowska at (206) 543-4755 or lazowska@cs.washington.edu. A high-resolution photo of Lazowska can be found on the Web at:
http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/images/elazowska.jpg
The White House news release is on the Web at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030508-6.html
