Association for Computing Machinery
Barbara Simons, U.S. Public Policy Committee
Founded in 1947, ACM is the world’s oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society. Its approximately 80,000 members include computing professionals and students in more than 100 countries in all areas of industry, academia, and government. Barbara Simons was president of ACM from 1998 to 2000. She has worked almost exclusively on voting technology issues since 2000, when she was a member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting convened at the request of President Bill Clinton. She founded ACM’s U.S. Public Policy Committee in 1993. The following is from September 28, 2006, testimony before the House Administration Committee during…
