ACM SIGSOFT Webinar: 'ACM SIGSOFT Town Hall Webinar,' Will Tracz

This webinar provides attendees with the who, what, and what next, where of ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. Attendees will be informed of changes in membership benefits, volunteer opportunities, and recent changes in ACM publication policies regarding open source access to conference proceedings. The initial presentation is scheduled for no more than 30 minutes with the remaining half hour reserved for answering questions.

Presenter: Will Tracz, Lockheed Martin Fellow Emeritus; Chair, ACM SIGSOFT
When he retired in 2012, Will Tracz was a principal software engineer/application architect for the Global Combat Support System - Air Force program. He is currently the chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) and a member of the ACM Professional Development Committee. He was the editor of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (1994-2012), 2002 chairman of the International Conference on Software Engineering, and 2012 chairman of the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering.

Moderator: Laura Dillon, Michigan State University
Laura Dillon received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1984. She spent 13 years in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Michigan State University in 1997. She served as the CSE Department Chair from 2003-2007. Professor Dillon's research interests center on specification and analysis of concurrent software systems, formal methods in software engineering, and programming languages. She is currently the vice-chair of ACM SIGSOFT.