After nearly eight years as Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences, Bill McCurdy has informed me of his intention leave this position and to devote himself fulltime to his scientific research and teaching.

The Laboratory has benefited greatly from Bill’s visionary leadership, which has brought LBNL’s computing power and capability into the twenty-first century and expanded the applied mathematics and computer science research programs at the laboratory. While doing so, he has attracted some of the most creative and productive computational scientists, applied mathematicians and computer scientists in the world to LBNL. Computation is now an integral component of all aspects of LBNL’s scientific portfolio.

I deeply appreciate Bill’s outstanding management contributions. He has also maintained a vigorous research program in theoretical atomic and molecular physics, and I am pleased that he will continue to be part of the Berkeley Lab community.