Vardi re-elected to CRA board
 Moshe Y. Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering and director of Rice's Computer and Information Technology Institute, has been re-elected to his third and final three-year term
on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).
The CRA is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies. The new term begins July 1.
Before joining Rice in 1993, Vardi managed the Mathematics and Related Computer Science Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His research interests include database systems, computational-complexity theory, multi-agent systems, and design specification and verification. Vardi received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981. He served as chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1993 to 2002.
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