Noted canadian joins Microsoft's board
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has tapped Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe for its board of directors. At the same time, the company said its board authorized a dividend of 13 cents per share for shareholders of record as of May 21, 2009.
A native of Toronto, Klawe is one of the world's top Canadian-born computer scientists. She was the first woman to serve on the board of the Computing Research Association, and she formerly headed the computer science department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Klawe is also a past president of the Association of Computing Machinery; a trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley, Calif.; and a board member of Math for America.