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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Verity Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software, today announced that its vice president and chief technology officer, Prabhakar Raghavan, has been named editor in chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (JACM). Raghavan, who is a Fellow of the ACM and serves on the editorial boards of the JACM and the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, will assume the editor in chief position on June 1. "Prabhakar Raghavan is a leader in the theoretical computer science community. His interests, which span a wide range of areas from randomized algorithms to information retrieval on the Web, will sustain JACM's efforts to broaden its coverage of the most significant work in the computing field," said Joseph Halpern, outgoing editor in chief of JACM and professor of computer science at Cornell University. In addition to formulating Verity's technical strategy, Raghavan serves as consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale. Prior to Verity, Raghavan held a number of technical and managerial positions at IBM Research. Raghavan holds a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He holds several patents and has authored more than 100 papers in various fields including algorithms, optimization, Web search and databases. Raghavan is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). "At Verity, we are committed to technological leadership and appreciate the standards of excellence in computer science research upheld by the Journal of the ACM," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and CEO. "By appointing Prabhakar Raghavan as editor in chief, the Journal is getting a great leader who will uphold those standards and maintain the appeal of the Journal to the ACM's members."