Activities and service

• Member, NSF CISE Advisory Committee, 2008-2012.
  
  
• Chair, Section on Information, Computing, and Communication, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013-2014.
  
  
• President, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (statement), 2007-2009.
  
  
• Council, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), 2010-2013.
  
  
• Board of Trustees, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), 2012-2014.
  
  
• Area Editor, Journal of the ACM (JACM) (Decisions, Uncertainty, and Computation area).
  
  
• Associate Editor, Decision Analysis Journal.
  
  
• President's Advisory Board, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012.
  
  
• EECS Program Review Committee, UC-Berkeley, 2009.
  
  
• Computer Science & Engineering External Advisory Board, University of Washington, 2008.
  
  
• President's Advisory Board, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, 2007.
  
  
• Co-chair, NSF CISE/SBE AC Subcommittee on Research Portfolio Analysis, 2009-2010.
  
  
• Member, Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC), 2003-2007.
  
  
• Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group, 2000-2004.
  
  
• Panelist, Panel on Transforming Healthcare, President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2001.
  
  
• Taskforce on Healthcare and the National Information Infrastructure, co-author, Highway to Health: Transforming U.S. Health Care in the Information Age, Committee on Competitiveness, 1996.
  
  
• Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering and Biomedical and Health Informatics.
  
  
• Cofounder and Board of Directors, Decision Education Foundation, Menlo Park, California.
  
  
• Editor, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence Journal on Computational Tradeoffs Under Bounded Resources (editorial overview)
  
  
• Editor, Special Issue of Decision Analysis Journal on Graph-Based Methods in Decision Analysis (editorial overview).
  
  
• NSF Search Committee, Director of NSF CISE Directorate, 2007.
  
  
• NSF Committee of Visitors (COV), Review of ITR Program, CISE, National Science Foundation, 2005.
  
  
• Chair, Association for Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence, parent of annual UAI conference, 1999-2005.
  
  
• Councilor, Executive Council, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1997-2000.
  
  
• Scientific Advisory Committee, ATL/Philips Ultrasound, 1998-2003.
  
  
• Co-organizer, Institute on Biological and Computational Perspectives on Intelligent Systems 2005 (program forward), June 2005, Microsoft Research and University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.
  
  
• Co-organizer, Institute on Biological and Computational Perspectives on Intelligent Systems 1998, August 1998, Microsoft Research and University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories. (public communication about meeting).
  
  
• Conference chair, UAI '97: Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, August 1997, Brown University, Providence, RI.
  
  
• Program Co-chair, UAI '96: Twelfth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, August 1996, Reed College, Portland, OR.
  
  
• Chair, DARPA ISAT study on Probabilistic Methods in Computational Systems and Infrastructure, 1998-1999
  
  
• Chair, ISAT study on Foundations of Augmented Cognition, 2000-2001
  
  
• Co-organizer, DARPA Augmented Cognition Phase II Kickoff Technical Meeting, Redmond, WA, July 2003.
  
  
• Co-chair, NAACL Workshop on Adaptation in Dialog Systems, June 2001, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  
  
• Program co-chair, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2002), Pittsburgh, PA.
  
  
• Co-chair, Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation, November 1996, Cambridge, Massachusetts.