Ann Quiroz Gates is the Associate Vice President of Research and Sponsored Projects at the University of Texas at El Paso and past chair of the Computer Science Department. Her research areas are software property elicitation and specification, and workflow-driven ontologies. Gates directs the NSF-funded Cyber-ShARE Center that focuses on developing and sharing resources through cyberinfrastructure to advance research and education. She is a member of the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure, and she serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. In 2003, Gates was na...