Bio Sketch Ron K. Cytron is a professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University. His research interests include optimized middleware for embedded and real-time systems, fast searching of unstructured data, hardware/runtime support for object-oriented languages, and computational political science. Ron has over 100 publications and 10 patents. He has received the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award and is a corecipient of SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievment Award. He served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems for 6 years. He participated in writing the Computer Science GRE Subject Test for 8 years and chaired the effort for 3 years. He is a Fellow of the ACM.