GHC - 2004

Conference Schedule

Wednesday 6 October 2004

8:00am-5:00pm	Senior Women's Leadership Summit (By Invitation Only)
6:00pm	Registration
7:00-9:00pm	Welcome Reception and POSTER SESSION

Thursday 7 October 2004

7:00am-7:00pm	Registration
8:30-8:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:45am	SESSION ONE
8:30-8:45am	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Welcome: John White, CEO, ACM & Amy Pearl, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 General Chair Speaker Introduction: Dr. Jan Cuny, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 Program Chair
8:45-9:45am	KEYNNOTE SPEAKER IF YOU'RE NOT THERE, YOU CAN'T DO IT: ADVANCING ARGUMENTS FOR DIVERSITY IN COMPUTING Dr. Shirley Malcolm Head of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Programs.
9:45-10:15am	Break
10:15-	Women in Computing Film Festival
10:15-11:45am	SESSION TWO
10:15-11:05am	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES AND BIOMETRIC CONTROL Dr. Melody Moore, Director, GSU BrainLab, Computer Information Systems Georgia State University
10:15-11:45am	ANITA BORG SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD WINNER Karen Banks, Coordinator, APC Women's Networking Support Program
10:15-11:45am	GETTING AHEAD IN YOUR CAREER: MYTHS AND REALITIES Shelagh Callahan, Staff Architect, Intel Corporation Carolyn Crandall, Director of U.S. Channel Operations, Cisco Systems Barbara Fox, Software Architect, Microsoft Robin Jeffries, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Lilian Wu, Program Executive for University Relations, IBM Janice Zdankus, Director of Research and Development, Hewlett-Packard INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING: OPPORTUNITIES AND IMPACTS Nancy Wiegand, Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Michele Ng, Special Programs Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, UBC Paul Carter, Instructor, Department of Computer Science, UBC Sylvia Spengler, Program Director Science and Engineering Informatics, National Science Foundation Victoria Interrante, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Carole Palmer, Associate Professor, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LEADERSHIP AND CREATING CULTURAL CHANGE Moderator: Jan Cuny, Professor, University of Oregon Jen Fitzpatrick, Engineering Director, Google Melanie Loots, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois Debra Richardson, Dean of Information and Computer Science, Univ. of California, Irvine Einat Yogev, Director of Engineering, Routing Technology Group, Cisco Systems WOMEN IN OPEN SOURCE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Moderator: Danese Cooper, Sun Microsystems and Open Source Initiative Leslie Proctor, Director of Marketing, GNOME Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mozilla.org Justyna Horwat, Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stormy Peters, Manager Open Source Programs Office, HP Alolita Sharma, CEO, Technetra
Noon-1:30pm	Lunch (On Your Own) WOMEN OF COLOR LUNCH Since the first Grace Hopper Conference in 1994, the Women of Color in the computing field have met via BOFs to discuss issues relevant to women of underrepresented ethnic groups. This year, we are happy to announce that Microsoft is sponsoring a luncheon for the Women of Color at the Grace Hopper Conference 2004.
Noon-12:50pm	BOFs FINDING THE PERFECT JOB Organizer: Jaye Girouard, Co-op/Intern Program Manager, Intel Massachusetts AFFECTING STUDENTS J McGrath Cohoon, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Sylvia Beyer, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Parkside
1:20-3:30pm	SESSION THREE
1:30-2:25pm	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER RFID REVOLUTION: LEADERSHIP IN WOMEN Linda Bernardi, CEO and President, ConnecTerra
2:35-3:30pm	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER ROBOTICS -> GRAPHICS -> ROBOTICS Dr. Jessica Hodgins, Professor, Computer Science and Robotics Carnegie Mellon University
1:30-2:25pm	TECHNICAL CARRERS, REACHING THE TOP Telle Whitney - President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Lucy Sanders - retired CTO, Avaya, Executive in Residence, ATLAS, Unviersity of Colorado at Boulder Marcia Balestrino - Senior VP and CIO, Girl Scouts of the USA Mar Hershenson - CTO & Founder, Barcelona Design, CEO & Founder, Sabio Labs SUMMER UNIVERSITIES FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Veronika Oechtering, researcher, University of Bremen, Germany Simone Alder, student, University of Bremen, Germany Annika Hinze, assistant professor, University of Waikato, New Zealand Friederike Jolk, student, University of Bremen, Germany Renate Klempien-Hinrichs, researcher, University of Bremen, Germany Alexandra Kreuzeder, projekt manager, University of Salzburg, Austria DIGITAL DIVIDE AND WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Naseem Bhatti - Director, Computer Training Centre, Pakistan Dilma M Da Silva - Research Scientist, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Vashti Galpin - Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa DESIGNING NEXT GENERATION WEB UI IN A DECLARATIVE XML FRAMEWORK Sarah Allen - Software Architect, Laszlo Systems
2:35-3:30pm	FINDING OUR PLACE IN HISTORY: SIX DECADES OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING Janet Abbate, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute ICT INNOVATION FOR EMERGING ECOMONIES Gita Gopal - Research Director, HP Labs India, HP Labs COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH AS A SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR Vicki Almstrum, Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin Sally Fincher, Lecturer, University of Kent - Canterbury Renee McCauley, Associate Professor, College of Charleston Suzanne Westbrook, Senior Lecturer and Associate Department Chair, University of Arizona ELECTRONIC VOTING: WHO OR WHAT WILL ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT? Amy Pearl, Consultant, Software Innovations Barbara Simons, Independent Technical Consultant, former ACM President and founder and co-chair of ACM's US Public Policy Committee (USACM), ACM Ellen Theisen, Founder and Executive Director, VotersUnite! (www.votersunite.org)
3:30-4:00pm	Break
4:00-5:30pm	SESSION FOUR
4:00-4:50pm	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER TOWARDS PRIVACY IN PUBLIC DATABASES Dr. Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
4:00-5:30pm	BIT BY BIT: MENTORING & PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO ADVANCING WOMEN IN HIGH TECH Katy Dickinson, Director, Sun Microsystems, Business Process Architecture Nicole Smentek, Senior Assoicate, Research, Catalyst Margaret Ashida, Director, IBM, Corporate University Relations Susan Hailey, Entertainment Vice President, Harrah's Stans Kleijnen, Consultant, former Sun Vice President, Engineering Barbara Waugh, Co-founder, e-inclusion, HP, HP Labs CHICTECH, GIRLTECH, AND OTHERS: GENDER EQUITY INITIATIVES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AND RICE UNIVERSITY Michael Sirois, Program Manager, CEEE, Rice University Susan Boone, Teacher, Westside High School, Houston ISD Karen Buras, Teacher, St. Thomas Episcopal School, Houston TX Christy Beatty, Student, Rice University, Rice CS-ters President Deb Israel, Alumni Coordinator, Siebel Center for Computer Science, UIUC Jean Phillips, Academy Math Instructor, Bartlett High School, Bartlett, IL DISMANTLING BARRIERS FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTING INTERNATIONALLY Annemieke Craig - Lecturer, Deakin Univeristy , Australia Margit Pohl - Senior Lecturer, University of Technology, Vienna Veronika Oechtering - Lecturer, oechteri@informatik.uni-bremen.de M. Suriya - Professor, Annamalai University Jehan Ara - CEO, Enabling Technologies Vashti Galpin - Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
4:00-4:45pm	NANOMETER CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO MICROPROCESSOR DESIGN Kelin Kuhn, 45 nm Device Manager, Portland Technology Development, Intel Corp Linda Rankin, Principal Engineer, Performance Networking Lab, Intel Corp
4:45-5:30pm	VOICE & DATA NETWORKING TRANSFORMATION IN THE SERVICE PROVIDER ENVIRONMENT Margaret Chiosi, Director of Optical Networking, AT&T Labs Ana Pinczuk, Senior Director of Engineering, Cisco
5:00-5:30pm	ANITA BORG AWARD FOR TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP Dr. Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM Corporation
6:00-7:00pm	BOFs SUPPORTING TEACHERS THROUGH MULTI-LEVEL PARTNERSHIPS: THE JAVA ENGAGEMENT FOR TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM Chris Stephenson, Acting Director, Computer Science Teachers Association Suzanne Menzel, Instructor - Computer Science, Indiana University Kelly Van Busum, DePaul University TEACHING COMPUTER ETHICS ACROSS THE COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM Organizer: Florence Appel, Faculty, Saint Xavier University WIND BENEATH OUR WINGS: PEER SUPPORT GROUPS FOR UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Elspeth Simpson, Co-President, Rice University CSters Christy Beatty, Co-President, Rice University CSters Sravani Mulpuri, President, Truman State University TWICS Heather Perkins, Vice President, Truman State University TWICS Anna Halim, Secretary, Truman State University TWICS Olga Nikolova, Member, Truman State University TWICS LEADERSHIP Organizer: Linda Alpein, Global Women's Leadership Center and Center for New Futures Participant: Dr. Ruth Davis, Santa Clara University Dr. Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science A SYSTERS MEETING Organizer: Robin Jeffries, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems AFFECTING STUDENTS Organizer: J McGrath Cohoon, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Sylvia Beyer, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Parkside CHANGING THE WORLD FOR WOMEN AND FOR TECHNOLOGY: THE VIRTUAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER (VDC) Gloria Montano, VDC Director, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology CHOOSING INDUSTRY AND STILL STUDYING: RECENT GRADUATES SHARE INSIGHT INTO THE REALITY OF THE FIRST YEARS OF A CORPORATE CAREER Seema Ramchandani, Program Manager, Avalon - Windows Client, Microsoft Corp Julie Farago, Program Manager, Avalon - Windows Client, Microsoft Corp
7:00-10:0pm	Silent Auction
7:30-11:00pm	AWARDS BANQUET KEYNOTE SPEAKER WOMEN MAKING HISTORY - YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW Dr. Telle Whitney, CEO and President, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Friday 8 October 2004

7:00am-6:00pm	Registration
8:30-9:45am	SESSION FIVE
8:45-9:45am	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Welcome: Dr. Jan Cuny, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 Program Chair & Peter Freeman, Associate Director, CISE, National Science Foundation Speaker Introduction: & Amy Pearl, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 General Chair
8:40-9:45am	KEYNOTE SPEAKER FROM ROBOTS TO BIOMOLECULES: COMPUTING ABOUT THE PHYSICAL WORLD Dr. Lydia Kavraki, Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering, Rice University (See page 12-13 for biography and abstract)
9:45-10:15am	Break
10:15-11:45am
	PhD Forum 1:
10:15-10:30am	AUTOMATED MAPPING OF COARSE-GRAIN PIPELINED APPLICATIONS TO FPGA SYSTEMS Heidi Ziegler, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute
10:30-10:45am	ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DIALYSIS PATIENTS Katie Siek, Research Assistant, Indiana University
10:50-11:05am	DATA VISUALIZATION OF INVISIBLE AIRFLOW HAZARDS DURING HELICOPTER TAKEOFF AND LANDING OPERATIONS Cecilia Aragon, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
11:05-11:25am	REQUIREMENTS-BASED TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION Hema Srikanth, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University
11:25-10:45am	DNA COMPUTING AND ERRORS Elena Losseva, Ph D student, University of Western Ontario
	PhD Forum 2:
10:15-10:35am	PROPOSING CAPS AS A LINK IN THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE DIVIDE Cynthia Lester, The University of Alabama
10:35-11:00am	IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC REQUESTS AT A BUSY WEB SERVER Bianca Schroeder, Graduate student, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00-11:20am	ENABLING SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS Moody Altamimi, Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University
11:20-11:45am	DESIGNING ECOMONIC-BASED DISTRIBUTION RESOURCE AND TASK ALLOCATION MECHANISMS FOR SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS Linli He, Texas A&M University
	New Investigator 1:
10:15-10:35am	COMPILING QUANTUM COMPUTATIONS INTO ELEMENTARY OPERATIONS Krysta Svore, student, Columbia University
10:35-11:00am	ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SPARSIFICATION ON LSI PERFORMANCE April Kontostathis, Assistant Professor, Ursinus College William M. Pottenger, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University Brian D. Davison, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
11:00-11:20am	ON THE EXISTENCE OF NONSYMMETRIC MATRICES WITH PERFECT ELIMINATION ORDERINGS Tzu-Yi Chen, Assistant Professor, Pomona College Melissa Egan, Graduate Student, Naval Postgraduate School
11:20-11:45am	ON THE IGNORED ASPECTS OF DATA CLUSTERING Soujanya Vadapalli, PhD Student, International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad
	New Investigator 2:
10:15-10:35am	DEVELOPING ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO SOFTWARE FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES Yolanda Jacobs Reimer, Assistant Professor, University of Montana Melissa Holmes, Graduate Student in CS, University of Montana
10:35-11:00am	USING EYE GAZE PATTERNS TO IDENTIFY USER TASKS Shamsi Iqbal, Graduate Student, University of Illinois Brian Bailey, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
11:00-11:20am	COMPARING SYNCHRONOUS REMOTE AND LOCAL USABILITY STUDIES FOR AN EXPERT INTERFACE Morgan Ames, Graduate student researcher, University of California, Berkeley A. J. Brush, Researcher, Microsoft Research Janet Davis, Graduate student researcher, University of Washington
11:20-11:45am	OPTIMISING NATURE RESERVE DESIGN: A FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH Anne Venables, Lecturer, Victoria University, and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Linda Stern, Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
	New Investigator 3:
10:15-10:35am	EVALUATION OF GEOCASTING PROTOCOLS FOR A MOBILE AD HOC NETWORK Peiling Yao, Ph.D. student, Colorado School of Mines Ed Krohne, student, Colorado School of Mines Tracy Camp, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines
10:35-11:00am	APPLYING STATIC ANALYSIS TO VERIFYING SECURITY PROPERTIES Xiaolan Zhang, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Trent Jaeger, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Larry Koved, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
11:00-11:20am	SPECIFICATION-BASED REGRESSION TESTING VIA MODEL CHECKING Lihua Xu, Graduate Student, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine Debra Richardson, Professor, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine
11:20-11:45am	TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR QUANTIFYING NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS Raquel Hill, Post-Doc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jun Wang, Post-Doc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Klara Nahrstedt, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Noon-1:30pm	Lunch (On Your Own)
Noon-1:15pm	BOF MENTORING AND MENTORNET Carol Muller, Founder and CEO, MentorNet Stephanie Fox, Director of Technology, MentorNet
1:30-3:30pm	SESSION SEVEN
1:30-2:20pm	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS IN INFERRING THE TREE OF LIFE Dr. Tandy Warnow, Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin
2:35-3:30pm	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER INSIDE INTEL: RE-IMAGINING COMPUTING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Dr. Genevieve Bell, Senior Researcher, Intel Research
1:30-2:25pm	CHILLY CLIMATE, ENGROSSING PUZZLE? RESEARCH RESULTS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK IN COMPUTING WORKPLACES Joyce Davis, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University Sarah Kuhn, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Susan Landau, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc. Helen Gill, Program Director, National Science Foundation Catherine McGeoch, Professor, Amherst College Jennifer Rexford, Technology Leader, AT&T Research Labs Barbara Simons, Co-Chair, USACM NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY (OLD PROBLEM, NEW SOLUTION) Lucy Sanders, Executive in Residence, University of Colorado at Boulder Bobby Schnabel, Vice Provost, University of Colorado at Boulder Andy Bernat, Executive Director, Computing Research Association (CRA) Mary Jean Harrold, NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing & Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Sharon Hussey, Senior Vice President, Girl Scouts of the USA Debra Richardson, Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean of the School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine TECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE TRENDS IN OIL AND GAS (EVANS) Francine Evans, Project Lead, Schlumberger
2:35-3:30pm	ENTRY LEVEL MENTORING Sung-Eun Choi - Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory Tina Eliassi-Rad - Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tessa Lau - Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Nuria Oliver - Researcher, Microsoft Research WOMEN@IT: GRADUATE EDUCATION, THE NEXT BIG THING Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Carol Frieze, Director, Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University Ariadna Font-Llitjos, PhD student, LTI, Carnegie Mellon University Tina Bennett, PhD student, LTI, Carnegie Mellon University Jing Chen, PhD student, CSD, Carnegie Mellon University Gita Sukthankar, PhD student, RI, Carnegie Mellon University ACM-W CHAPTERS: COMMUNITIES FOR STUDENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Paula Gabbert - Associate Professor, Furman University Vicki Allan - Associate Professor, Utah State University Bettina Bair - Instructor, Ohio State University Lilly Irani - Student, Stanford University Fatma Mili - Associate Professor, Oakland University THE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE Leader: Moira Gunn, CEO, TechNation Telle Whitney, CEO and President, Anita Borg Institute for Woman and Technology Nancy Levitt, Director of Strategy and Development for The Tech Nation Group & Development ABI Linda Bernardi, CEO, ConnecTerra
3:30-4:00pm	Break
4:00-5:30pm	SESSION EIGHT
4:00-4:50pm	INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER SELF-RECONFIGURING ROBOTS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES Dr. Daniela Rus, Associate Professor, Department of EECS and CSAIL, MIT
4:00-5:30pm	NON-ACADEMIC RESEARCHER TRACK: MANAGING CAREER CHANGE Kathleen Fisher - Principal Technical Staff Member, AT&T Evelyn Duesterwald - Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Joan Feigenbaum - Professor, Yale University Susan Landau - Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratory Sharon Perl - Staff Engineer, Google
4:00-5:30pm	THE ROLE OF MENTORING IN RECRUITING AND RETAINING FEMALE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Nancy Amato - Associate Professor, Texas A & M University Michele Ng - Special Programs Coordinator, University of British Columbia Sheila Humphreys - Academic Coordinator, University of California at Berkeley Katrina Ligett - Ph.D Student, Carnegie Mellon University Sarah Solter - WICS Mentoring Coordinator, Stanford University Rachel Weinstein - Ph.D Student, Stanford University BEING AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER Faith Ellen Fich - Professor, University of Toronto Ruth Anderson - Lecturer, University of Virginia Sheila Castaneda - Associate Professor and Chair, Clarke College Susan Horwitz - Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Susan Rodger - Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University Beth Simon - Assistan Professor, University of San Diego
4:00-4:45pm	UNDERSTANDING, MANAGING AND SECURING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS Raquel Hill, Post-Doc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Roy Campbell, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4:45-5:30pm	UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING FOR PROACTIVE HEALTH Margaret Morris, Senior Researcher, Intel Corporation Monique Lambert, Senior Research Scientist, Intel Corporation/Stanford University
6:00-7:00pm	BOFs CONNECTING UNDERREPRESENTATION RESEARCH AND OUTREACH PRACTICE: RECRUITING WOMEN INTO COMPUTER SCIENCE Organizers:Vibha Sazawal, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington Ken Yasuhara, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington A GRADUATE SCHOOL GATHERING Kelly Van Busum, Student, DePauw University Andrea Tartaro, Student, Northwestern University Yolanda Rankin, Student, Northwestern University Michele Weigle, Student, Clemson University Shannon Pollard, Student, Elon University THE VALUE OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Florence Appel, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Saint Xavier University Rita Lee, Student, The College of New Jersey Megan Thurber, Student, The College of New Jersey ACM: MEET THE LEADERS AND HAVE YOUR SAY Organizer: Ursula Martin, Chair, ACM-W, University of Cambridge, Chair ACM-W Participants: David Patterson, President, ACM, University of California at Berkeley John White, Chief Executive, ACM Karen Sollins, Professor, MIT Roscoe Giles, Professor, Boston University CENTRAL INDIANA CELEBRATION OF WOMEN AND COMPUTING (CICWIC): A SUCCESSFUL PILOT FOR A SMALL REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SRC) Organizer: Gloria Townsend, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, DePauw University Participants: Beth Plale, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University Barbara Clark, Director of the Science Diversity Office. Purdue University Suzanne Menzel, Instructor of Computer Science, Indiana University STUDENTS TEACHING STUDENTS> Organizer: Jinger Zhao, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley GROUP ELECTRONIC MENTORING PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND TECHNOLOGY CAREERS Organizer: Sarah Shirk, University of Illinois at Chicago Participant: Nancy Chen, Women's Bureau Regional Administrator

Saturday 9 October 2004

8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:30-11:45am	SESSION NINE
8:30-8:45am	WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Welcome: Amy Pearl, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 General Chair & Dave Patterson, ACM President Speaker Introduction: Dr. Jan Cuny, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 Program Chair
8:30-11:45am	PIONEERS PANEL: WOMEN PIONEERS AND TRAILBLAZERS IN COMPUTING Panel Chairs: Dr. Janet Abbate,Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech Dr. Denise GÃ¼rer, Senior Computer Scientist,LightCloud Software Panelists: Kathleen Mauchly Antonelli Dr. Thelma Estrin, Professor-in-Residence, UCLA Dr. Adele Goldberg, Founder and Director, Neometron AND Chief Technology Officer, AgileMind Dr. Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, Head of School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Dr. Jane Hillston, Reader, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Hilary J. Kahn, Professor, Computer Science, University of Manchester Dame Stephanie Shirley, Founder and Life President, Xansa; Shirley Foundation Elsie Shutt, Founder and President Computations, Inc.
	CONFERENCE CONCLUDES