Ballots for the election of candidates to the Board of Governors will be mailed soon to all voting members. This year's candidates are:

Fil Bartoli
National Science Foundation

Christopher R. Doerr
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Diana L. Huffaker
CHTM / University of New Mexico

Carmen S. Menoni
Colorado State University

David V. Plant
McGill University

Silvano Donati
University of Pavia

Chennupati Jagadish
Australian National University

Hideo Kuwahara
Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.