New Head of the Computer, Information Science & Engineering Directorate at NSF

A quote from http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108322: 

"The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Jeannette Wing, president's professor and head of the Computer Science Department in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS), as assistant director for Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at NSF. She will begin her new position on July 1, 2007.

In the post, Wing will guide and manage funding for the federal agency that supports research in computer and information science and engineering. With a budget of over $527 million, CISE provides 86 percent of all federally funded research in computer science. In addition to research support, the CISE directorate contributes to the education and training of future generations of computer scientists and engineers."

The emphasis is mine. I let you draw your own conclusions.

Thanks to Björn þór Jónsson for the pointer.