Service Activities

SERVICE TO SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, EDUCATIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES

  • Member and Chairman, Program Committee, ACM Conference on Theory of Computation (1969-1970)

  • Program Chairman and Session Chairman, ACM Theory of Computing Symposium (1970)

  • Organizer and Chairman of session on computational complexity at Third Annual Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (1969-1970)

  • Program Chairman, IEEE Switching and Automata Theory Symposium (1972)

  • Program Chairman, American Mathematical Society Symposium on Complexity of Real Computational Processes (1973)

  • Member, Organizing Committee for 1974 Congress of International Federation of Information Processing Societies (one of three representatives from the United States (1972-1973)

  • Panel Chairman and Organizer, American Mathematical Society, Missoula, Montana (1973)

  • Member and Chairman, Panel on Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering Research Study (COSERS), NSF (1972-1979)

  • Member and Chairman, President's Advisory Committee on Computer Science, Stanford University (1972-1980)

  • Chairman, Computer Science Planning Group, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council (1972-1974)

  • Member, Organizing Committee, NSF Workshop on Large-scale Systems (1974)

  • Session Chairman, IPIP '74, Stockholm (1974)

  • Consultant, IBM Research (1974-1975)

  • Member, Program Committee, IEEE Foundations of Computer Science Symposium (1976)

  • Member, Program Committee, University of Waterloo Computer Science Conference (1976-1977)

  • Member, Advisory Board, Office of Mathematical Sciences, National Research Council (NAS) (1976-1979)

  • Member, Computer Science and Technology Board, National Research Council (NAS) (1976-1980)

  • Computer Science Review Committee, Brown University (1978-1979)

  • Review Committee, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1978-1979)

  • Pre-Advisory Board for a Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Northwestern University (1978-1979)

  • Chairman, Nominating Committee, Computer Science and Technology Board, National Research Council (1978-1979)

  • NRC Panel to Study the Conduct of Basic Research in Computer Science and its Interaction with Applied Research and Development (1979-1980)

  • Program Committee, ICALP '81

  • Member, Fulkerson Prize Committee, Mathematical Programming Society (1980-1984)

  • Program Committee, ACM SIGACT Conference (1981)

  • Program Committee, Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Czechoslovakia (1981)

  • XI Program Committee, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (West Germany) (1981-1982)

  • Member-at-Large, Conference Board for the Mathematical Sciences (1981-1982)

  • American Mathematical Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee (1981-1982)

  • Member, Von Neumann Prize Committee (ORSA) (1981-1985)

  • Session Chairman, ICALP, Acco, Israel (1982-1983)

  • Member, Committee on Faculty Research Lecture, UC Berkeley (1982-1986)

  • Member, Screening Committee for Doctoral Dissertation Award, Association for Computing Machinery (1982-1983)

  • Member, Organizing Committee., Program in Computational Complexity, MSRI, Berkeley (1982-1984)

  • Member, Visiting Committee, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard (1983-1985)

  • Baker Prize Committee (NAS) (1983-1984)

  • SIGMA XI National Lecturer (1983-1985)

  • Steering Committee, International Congress of Mathematicians (1983-1986)

  • Chair, Committee to Select Speakers in Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science, International Congress of Mathematicians (1983-1986)

  • Chair, Program Committee, Twenty-fifth IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (1983-1984)

  • Advisory Committee, Research Center in Discrete Optimization, Cornell (1983-1986)

  • Chair, Fulkerson Prize Committee (Mathematical Programming Society) (1985-1986)

  • Chair, Von Neumann Prize Committee (Operations Research Society of America) (1985-1986)

  • Program Committee, Twelfth International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (1985-1986)

  • Co-chair, Program Committee for Computational Complexity Year at MSRI (1984-1985)

  • Chair, Review of Computer and Information Sciences Board, UCSC (1985-1986)

  • Jacobs Chair Search Committee, UCSD (1984-1987)

  • SIGACT Science Policy Committee (1985-1990)

  • National Advisory Board, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1985- )

  • CER Initial Review Panel, NSF (1985-1987)

  • Board of Trustees, ICSI (1985- )

  • Member, Review Committee, Computer Science Department, UC Riverside (1987)

  • Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science (1987- )

  • Visiting Committee, Department of Operations Research, Stanford (1988-1989)

  • NSF Review Panel (Coordination Theory) (1988-1989)

  • Advisory Board, NSF Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers-Princeton (1988- )

  • Advisory Committee, Department of Computer Science, Princeton (1988- )

  • Research Board, Hewlett-Packard Corporation (1988- )

  • Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (1989-1990)

  • Program Committee, Waterloo Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (1989-1990)

  • Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, UCSC (1989-1990)

  • Program Committee, IEEE FOCS Symposium (1990-1991)

  • Executive Committee, Miller Institute for Basic Research (1990- )

  • Committee to Review Computer Science Department, USC (1990-1991)

  • Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (1990-1991)

  • Advisory Committee, Workshop on Parallel Algorithms (1990- )

  • Program Committee, ACM-SIAM SODA Conference (1990-1991)

  • Turing Award Committee, ACM (1990- )

  • Program Committee, International Mathematical Programming Symposium (1990- )

  • Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Computer Science, UC Riverside (1990-1991)

  • Graduate Program Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, UC Riverside (1991-1992)

  • Panel on Applied Mathematics Research Alternatives for the Navy, National Research Council (1990-1991)

  • U.S. Advisory Group for IIASA (1991- )

  • Chair, Graduate Program Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, UC San Diego (1991-1992)

  • ACM Science Policy Committee (1992- )

  • Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Plank Institüt für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
    (1992- )

  • Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University (1992)

  • Review Committee, Department of Operations Research, Yale (1992)

  • Director Search Committee, DIMACS (1992- )

  • Gödel Prize Committee (1992- )

  • Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (1992 - 1995)

  • COCOON 97 Program Committee (1997)

  • RECOMB Steering Committee and Program Committee (1997 -)

  • Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science (1995-)

  • Board of Trustees and External Fellow, International Computer Science Institute (1988-)

  • External Advisory Board, DIMACS(1990-)

  • Member, USACM (ACM Science Policy Committee)(1997-99)

  • Committee to Select Sloan Fellows in Computer Science(1994-2000)

  • Scientific Review Panel, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences(1998-2001)

  • IPPS/SPDP Advisory Committee(1997-)

  • External Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute, Saarbrucken(1997-2000)

  • Advisory Board, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

  • Co-Chair, MSRI Workshop ``Understanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges'', May 21-23, 1998

  • Board of Governors, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications(1999-2001, chair, 2001)

  • Waterman Award Committee, NSF(1998-2000)

  • Lawler Award Committee (ACM) (2000)

  • Kanellakis Prize Committee (ACM)(2001-2004)

  • Program Committees: COCOON '98; Recomb '98; Random, '98; SODA, '99, RECOMB '99, `00, `01, `02; Soda `01.

  • Consultant to Rosetta Inpharmatics(1996-99)

  • Board of Advisers, Digital Fountain (1999-)

  • Chair, Computer Science Review Committee, Technion(2000)

  • Organizer, PMMB/MSRI Workshop (2000)

  • Faculty Investigator, QB3, UCSF/UCB/UCSC Program in Quantitative Biology (2001-)

  • Member, NHGRI Review Board, NIH (2000-)

  • Affymetrix Scientific Advisory Board(2001-)

  • Chair, Section 34 (Computer and Information Sciences), National Academy of Sciences(2001-2004)

  • Chair, External Committee to Review Computer Science Dept., UC Santa Barbara (2001)

  • Founding Chair, NAS Section 34, `Computer and Information Sciences' (2001-2004)

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