Statement of Candidacy As a magazine editor, TC chair, conference organizer, and author, I have seen many aspects of the Computer Society. CS is a nonprofit organization intended to help its membership and disseminate information. At the same time, "nonprofit" does not equal "loss": at a time of increasing competition and economic hardship, it is important for CS to sustain its revenues or cut costs. The portfolio of publications and conferences has grown considerably; the society therefore competes with itself, let alone other organizations. I want to be aggressive in identifying these overlaps and consolidating the portfolio into a smaller set of key venues. I also find great concern among my colleagues over the variation in publication policies. When similar organizations offer open access, CS has difficulty attracting authors to volunteer their content under a strict copyright. I intend to move our policies in this regard into the 21st century. I would like to see CS make conference organization easier for the volunteers. I have run conferences for both CS and USENIX and there is a huge difference between them. USENIX has staff who are responsible for many of the logistics such as local arrangements and registration, so there is no separate “general chair” ... the volunteers are responsible for content while USENIX is responsible for logistics. Obviously USENIX is much more focused than CS, but many people who may organize an event in the areas of interest for USENIX (such as distributed systems and security) view USENIX as the first place to turn, not CS. In fact, a workshop once run by CS became a USENIX event instead several years ago! CS operates under different constraints than USENIX, especially operating as a society within the broader IEEE, but it can do better. My goal as a member of the Board of Governors would be to make CS events easier to organize and to make CS the first place one would turn when starting a new event. (And yes, we can and should be starting new events even as we identify other events that may no longer be strategic.)

Biography Fred Douglis holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. in computer science from Yale. He has worked in industrial applied research throughout his career, including Matsushita, AT&T (Bell) Labs, IBM Research, and currently the CTO office of EMC Backup Recovery Systems. He also has been a visiting professor at VU Amsterdam and Princeton University. He received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award for his contributions to System S, productized as Infosphere Streams. His research interests include storage, distributed systems, and Internet tools and performance. He has published one book, 40 workshop or conference papers, 7 journal or magazine articles, and over 40 patents and patent applications. His CV is here. Douglis has volunteered with IEEE-CS since 1993 and has been a senior member of IEEE since 1997. He served as editor in chief of IEEE Internet Computing from 2007-2010 and has been on its editorial board since 1999. He formed the Technical Committee on the Internet, chairing it from 1997-2000, and previously chaired the Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments from 1996-1998. He chaired several steering committees; helped organize the first IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT) in 2001, serving as program co-chair; and was general chair of the 1993 IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems. Outside IEEE-CS, he has been program chair or co-chair of four major conferences: WWW2005, the 8th International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop (2003), the USENIX 2nd Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (1999), and the 1998 USENIX Technical Conference. He is currently the USENIX Association’s liaison to the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference.