NSF PA 02-01 - January 25, 2002
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NSF Announces New Head of Computer Information
Science and Engineering
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named veteran
computer scientist and administrator Peter A. Freeman
as the foundation's new assistant director for Computer
and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
Dr. Freeman, currently John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of Computing
at Georgia Institute of Technology, will take office
in May.
Since 1990, Dr. Freeman has served Georgia Tech as
a professor and founding dean of the College of Computing.
From 1992 to 1995, he also acted as the university's
Chief Information Officer. He is a recognized leader
in encouraging interdisciplinary work involving computer
science.
He has served on numerous national panels and advisory
committees, is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing
Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and has been a member of the Board of
Directors of the Computing Research Association since
1988.
Dr. Freeman chaired the Sam Nunn NationsBank Policy
Forum on information security in 1998. This forum
led to the creation of the Georgia Tech Information
Security Center, one of the first comprehensive centers
in the United States concentrating on information
security.
Dr. Freeman earned his Ph.D. in computer science from
Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the author or coauthor
of three books, editor of four, and author of dozens
of research papers. He held previous faculty positions
at George Mason University and the University of California
at Irvine. From 1987 to 1989 he served as director
of NSF's Computer and Computation Research Division
within CISE, where he helped formulate the federal
government's High-Performance Computing and Communications
Initiative.
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