Tardos

Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She will assume her new responsibilities Oct. 1.

The ACM, founded in 1947, is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.  Its journal provides coverage of the most significant work on principles of computer science and is considered the flagship journal for all of computer science. The editor must be a leading researcher in the field and have extensive experience serving on conference program committees and journal editorial boards.

Tardos has been editor-in-Chief of SIAM Journal on Computing, and is currently the Economics and Computation area editor of the Journal of the ACM as well as a member of the Board of Editors of the open-access journal Theory of Computing. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering,

She joined the Cornell faculty in 1989 after working at the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several European universities. She teaches courses in algorithms, game theory and networking.