Bruce, Kim B. - Williams College - Semantics and design of programming languages, type theory, object-oriented languages, models of higher-order lambda calculus including subtypes and bounded polymorphism.

Brill, Eric - Johns Hopkins University - Empirical natural language processing, speech recognition, spoken language systems, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Lexical disambiguation, parsing, classifier combination, spelling correction, language modelling.

Banicescu, Ioana - Mississippi State University - Parallel algorithms, scientific computing, scheduling theory, and computational biology.

Balsamo, Simonetta - University of Udine - Modelling and analysis for performance and reliability evaluation of computer and communication systems, parallel and distributed simulation.

Bendix, Lars - Aalborg University - Configuration management maturity model, cooperative editing, general object-based environments, holistic configuration management.

Bridges, Susan - Mississippi State University - Expert systems, knowledge discovery in databases, intelligent interfaces.

Boisvert, Ronald F. - NIST - Numerical solution of partial differential equations, mathematical software, and information services that support computational science.

Baker, Henry - Garbage collection, GC, storage management, programming languages, Lisp, Ada, APL, ML, functional programming, compilers, linear types, reversible computation, parallel languages, quantum computation.

Baquero, Carlos - Minho University - Distributed and mobile computing, concurrent object-oriented programming, inheritance anomaly, C++ extensions, WWW tools, languages, and robots.

Bellegarde, Françoise - Oregon Graduate Institute - Formal methods, functional programming, automatic demonstration, term rewriting, program transformation.

Biagioni, Edoardo - University of Hawaii at Manoa - protocol implementation strategies, advanced programming languages for systems programming, garbage collection, operating systems.

Birkedal, Lars - Carnegie Mellon University - Type theory, modules, Standard ML, compilation of ML, the ML Kit, partial evaluation, SML-Mix.

Blair, Michael R. - MIT - Dynamically adaptive profile-guided specialization, partial evaluation, program analysis, compilation, type theory, subtyping.

Blelloch, Guy - Carnegie Mellon - Thread scheduling, parallel algorithms, NESL, provably efficient language implementations, multiprocessor garbage collection.

Hans J. Boehm - HP Labs - Java, Garbage collection, language theory

Borning, Alan - University of Washington - Human-computer interaction, constraint-based languages and systems, and land use, transportation, and environmental modeling.

Braine, Lee - University College London - Functional programming, object-oriented programming, visual programming, and language implementations.

Breugel, Franck van - York University, Ontario - Concurrent programming languages, semantics, specification languages.

Bryant, Barrett R. - University of Alabama at Birmingham - Programming languages, compiler design, formal semantics, object-oriented technology.

Böhlen, Michael - Aalborg University - Temporal databases, deductive databases, and data warehousing.

Bernstein, D. J. - University of Illinois, Chicago - Computer hardware, Data structures, Fast arithmetic, Number theory, Networking

Brajnik, Giorgio - University of Udine - Human-computer interfaces for information access, knowledge representation and reasoning about dynamical systems.

Bultan, Tevfik - University of California, Santa Barbara - Computer aided verification, formal methods, static analysis, model checking.

Bhujade, Moreshwar - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Computer Architecture and Operating systems, Fault tolerent Distributed Algorithms, Neural networks, Speech/Image Processing, Speech technology for Indian languages

Brankovic, Ljiljana - University of Newcastle - Security of statistical databases.

Bradfield, Julian - University of Edinburgh - Verification using temporal logics, computer-aided verification of potentially infinite systems, logics for true concurrency.

Bacon, Jean - University of Cambridge - Distributed systems.

Bundy, Alan - University of Edinburg - Understanding the structure of mathematical proofs using proof plans, automated theorem proving.

Blackwell, Alan - University of Cambridge - Human-computer interaction, visual interaction.

Briscoe, Ted - University of Cambridge - Speech and language processing, computational linguistics.

Banks, David - Florida State University - 3D computer graphics and scientific visualization.

Bennett, Charles H. - IBM Research - Quantum information and computation theory.

Ball, Thomas - Microsoft Research - Domain-specific languages, automatic analysis of programs, software visualization.

Bergamaschi, Sonia - Universities of Modena and of Bologna - Inferential techniques for databases, object oriented methods in knowledge representation and databases.

Bhattacharyya, Pushpak - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Neural Network Theory and Applications, Formal and Empirical Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding, Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Banerjee, Subhashis - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi - Computer Vision, Real-time Systems, Robotics

Balakrishnan, M. - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi - CAD for VLSI, Computer Architecture

Buyya, Rajkumar - Monash University - Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Compilers, Programming Paradigms, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Cluster Computing, Parallel I/O.

Briot, Jean-Pierre - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris - Object-oriented programming, concurrency/parallelism, distributed programming, flexible and adaptive programs, meta-programming and reflection, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, software agents, mobile agents, artificial life, computer music.