The SIGCAS Outstanding Service Award is presented annually to a SIGCAS member for outstanding service to SIGCAS in carrying out responsibilities that foster the viability of SIGCAS and enable it to continue to make a contribution to the field of computing in the context of its stated mission.

This year's award for outstanding service should surprise no one. Dr. C. Dianne Martin, Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University, Washington DC, has simply been the heart and soul of SIGCAS - our organizer, motivator, coach, and cheerleader in one - for many years.

Dianne shares with the two previous winners of this award a highly interdisciplinary background and career. She holds the BA degree in Economics and Mathematics Education from Western Maryland College, the MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, and the EdD in Teacher Education from The George Washington University. She has worked as a secondary school teacher, as a computer programmer for the IBM Federal Systems Division, and as a college teacher at Western Maryland College, the University of Maryland, and The George Washington University. Recently, she has served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, Chief Policy Officer of Geotrust, Inc., and Director of the Cyberspace Policy Institute, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University. She is a leader in numerous scientific and professional societies, including the Recreational Software Advisory Council and the Internet Content Rating Association - and she has consistently been selected as Professor of the Year at her own university.

As impressive as her resume may be, the present award is specifically for service to SIGCAS. Here, Dianne's achievements are just as remarkable. Most obvious is her service as SIGCAS Chair from 1993 to 2000 - the longest tenure in the organization's history. During this tenure, her sound fiscal management kept the organization both active and viable in a period of tightening budgets and stringent ACM requirements. Prior to becoming Chair, she served as Secretary/Treasurer and stepped in to fill a void in the Editorship early in 1993. She has chaired or co-chaired all of the recent SIGCAS conferences, including Computers and the Quality of Life (CQL) 1990 and 1996, and the Ethics and Social Impact component of ACM Policy 1998. Dianne also reached out to other organizations, making SIGCAS an important part of conferences on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy and the annual National Educational Computing Conference - as well as ACM SIGCSE and SIGCAPH conferences. She has been among the key leaders in ACM curriculum and Code of Ethics development, and initiated the recent SIGCAS research project "IT Workplace 2000." She is the originator of the SIGCAS awards program, and a most deserving recipient of it.