Dr. Anne Condon is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at University of British Columbia. Her research in the areas of computational complexity and algorithms currently focus on ways to computationally predict nucleic acid structure and on    molecular programming - the art and science of writing programs that are realized and executed by DNA or other molecules.    Dr. Condon received her Bachelor's degree from University College Cork, Ireland in 1982, and her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1987, and was a faculty member at University of Wisconsin from  1987-1999.  She is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Condon is also a recipient of the Computing Research Association's Habermann Award for outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and successes of women in computing research.