Message from the TCDE Chair Nominating Committee

The Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) is elected for a two-year period. The mandate of the current Chair, Kyu-Young Whang, is coming to an end and it is time to elect a Chair for the next two years. The TCDE Chair Nominating Committee, consisting of Amr El Abaddi, Paul Larson, and David Lomet, has nominated two candidates for the position as Chair of TCDE: Erich Neuhold and Xiaofang Zhou. The Committee regards both candidates as highly qualified to fill the office of Chair of the Technical Committee, and urges members to cast their votes. More information about TCDE can be found at http://tab.computer.org/tcde/ as well as in the accompanying election announcement below from Brookes Little of the Computer Society. David Lomet, Paul Larson and Amr El Abbadi Microsoft, Microsoft, and UC Santa Barbara