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Antón honored by ACM

Dr. Antón (Photo: Roger Winstead)
Dr. Antón (Photo: Roger Winstead)

Dr. Annie I. Antón, professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has been named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The honor recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and five years of continuus professional membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. The program represents the top 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field. ACM’s current worldwide membership exceeds 96,000.

ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society and delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. The association provides the computing field’s premier digital library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

Antón’s research focuses on methods and tools to support the specification of complete, correct behavior of software systems used in environments that pose risks of loss as a consequence of failures and misuse. This includes systems in which the security of personal and private information is particularly vulnerable, with specific interest in regulatory compliance. She has developed a leadership role in research, education and outreach.

Antón is also the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research group of students and faculty at NC State and Purdue University that is developing technology to assist practitioners and policy makers in meeting the challenge of eliciting and expressing policies. These tools help ensure that privacy policies and federal regulations are aligned with the software systems that they govern.

Antón received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in information and computer science from Georgia Tech in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and her doctorate in computer science in 1997, also from Georgia Tech.

 

ACM news release: http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2009/distinguished-09/?searchterm=distinguished+2009