Jack Davidson is a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests include compilers, programming languages, computer architecture, embedded systems, and computer security. Davidson's current research interests are focused on the areas of computer security, run-time management of applications running on multi-core systems, and computer science education

He is an Associate Editor of ACM’s Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization. He served as an Associate Editor of ACM’s Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems from 1994 to 2000. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society.

 Mary Jane Irwin is an Evan Pugh Professor and the A. Robert Noll of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University.  Her research interests include computer architecture (power constrained, application specific) and computer arithmetic, reliable systems design, and VLSI systems design and design automation. Irwin received her M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.   She received an Honorary Doctorate from Chalmers University, Sweden in 1997, was named a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1995, a Fellow of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1996, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Irwin is currently serving as a member of the NRC’s Board of Army Science and Technology, the ACM Fellow’s Selection Committee, the NAE Committee on Membership, and the CRA-W Steering Committee.  In the past she has served as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governors, of ACM's Council, as Vice President of ACM, and on the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Board of Directors.  She was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM’s Transactions on the Design Automation of Electronic Systems from 1998 to 2004 on co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems from 2005 to 2006.