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Wendnesday 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: Amy Pearl, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 General Chair & John White, CEO, ACM
Speaker Introduction: Dr. Jan Cuny, Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 Program Chair
8:45-9:45am KEYNOTE 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
              Melody Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Information Systems Department at Georgia State University. Dr. Moore holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1998). Her dissertation work in user interface reengineering combined the areas of Human-Computer Interface and Software Engineering.
              Dr. Moore created and now directs the GSU BrainLab, whose mission is to research innovative human-computer interaction for people with severe disabilities. Dr. Moore’s work focuses on studying real-world applications for biometric interfaces, including direct brain interfaces. Prior to GSU, Dr. Moore was a Senior Research Scientist in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech for nine years, creating and directing the Open Systems lab, and teaching Software Engineering. Before coming to academia, she worked for nine years in industry as a professional software engineer developing real-time embedded systems, secure operating systems, networking, and compilers.
              ABSTRACT: A devastating condition called locked-in syndrome renders a person completely paralyzed and unable to speak, affecting half a million people worldwide. Traditional assistive devices are ineffective because they depend on reliable muscle movements. Until recently, people with severe physical disabilities had few options but to live in perpetual isolation, unable to communicate even their basic needs.
              However, current research is providing hope. Biometric devices measure physical properties of the human body that can be altered at will to provide a non-muscular channel of control for computers and other devices. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) detect minute electrophysiological changes in brain signals, and have been used to restore communication for people with severe physical disabilities.
              The mission of the GSU BrainLab is to explore the possibilities of real-world applications for biometric interfaces. Current work focuses on quality of life applications such as communication and environmental control, internet access, mobility, and neural prosthetics.
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
              What does it take to succeed in a business career today? What skills do you need and how can you develop them? How can you prepare for unexpected opportunities? What tradeoffs do you need to make between your personal and professional lives? Can you succeed on your own or do you need a mentor? This panel of technical and managerial women will share their definitions of success and how this affected the choices each has made in her career. They will share their discoveries of the myths and realities of succeeding in the professional world.

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
              The purpose of this panel is to introduce interdisciplinary research and training involving Computer Science/IT and discuss the potential of interdisciplinary work along with its challenges. One aspect of this panel focuses on interdisciplinary research and funding opportunities. Another aspect of the panel presents findings on the impact of interdisciplinary programs and courses on the recruitment and retention of women in Computer Science. In general, interdisciplinary work is distinguished as being more problem-oriented when compared to research and studies within an individual field. For example, interdisciplinary research may be useful in solving global environmental problems.

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
              Successful companies and successful academic institutions find that it is important to embrace change. All organizations have a culture, it is part of what makes them successful in the first place, but these cultures need to change over time. True leaders are able to achieve cultural change while still maintaining the core values that allowed them to be successful. Important cultural change includes ideas such as embracing a more diverse population, or changing a culture to be increasingly fast paced, or embracing a culture of learning. All of these are examples of how organizations need to change. The participants on this panel is a diverse group of people including leaders from companies that are known for their changing culture, and leaders from prominent universities that are also known for doing it differently.

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
              The Free Software and Open Source movements are having a direct impact on the business of software development. The old business model of "vendor lock-in" is crumbling. As with the commoditization of any industry, there are challenges to the status quo and opportunities for those who understand how to take advantage of the changes. Because open source projects are conducted over the Internet by virtual teams with relative anonimity, there is a loosening of traditional gender biases. Meritocratic governance offers another potential area for the advancement of women. This panel introduces women on the front lines of the open source movement.
Noon-1:30pm Lunch

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
    Jaye will discuss the interview process from A to Z, beginning with:
    • resume writing telephone screening pre-interview campus/plant interviews negotiations decision process
    • and more important, tips on finding that job, be it full time or summer!

AFFECTING STUDENTS
J McGrath Cohoon, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Sylvia Beyer, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Parkside
              We will discuss recent research findings about the effects of mentoring and other features of the educational environment. Mentoring correlates with progression to graduate school and retention of women. Environmental and psychological variables predict female but NOT male grades in CS courses taken one to three semesters later.
1:20-3:30pm SESSION THREE
1:30-2:25pm INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER
RFID REVOLUTION: LEADERSHIP IN WOMEN
Linda Bernardi, CEO and President, ConnecTerra
              Linda Bernardi's strong vision of the Internet of Devices led her to found ConnecTerra, a Cambridge Massachusetts based developer of the leading software infrastructure for Device Computing.
              Prior to ConnecTerra, Linda held several senior management positions at BBN Technologies of Cambridge, including managing North American Business Development operations and then as of VP of Global Business Development and Consulting Services. Following BBN, Linda joined Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) of Raleigh, NC as VP of Strategic Business Development and in 1999 founded Bernardi & Co., a strategic consulting company.
              Founded in 2001, ConnecTerra's software platform and products provide the ability for organizations to deploy and remain connected with billions of autonomous devices and supports the integration smart devices and emerging technologies into day-to-day operations, allowing for the realization of significant operating efficiencies and increased productivity.
              Linda holds a graduate degree in applied statistics from UCLA and serves on the Board of Trustee's at Anita Borg Institute and the SETI Institute.
              ABSTRACT: An Aware Enterprise harnesses and exploits the autonomous device revolution by securely extending business processes in real time to reach any good, product, or asset anywhere on the globe. An Aware Enterprise will enjoy unparalleled operating efficiencies, customer satisfaction, dynamic market knowledge and agility, fueled by true device computing.
              The Aware Enterprise is likely to be the single most important innovation in IT over this decade. The Aware Enterprise will enable true bi-directional communication with all types of devices including but no limited to computers, handheld devices, to very small wireless sensors and the emerging RFID technology and all other devices. RFID technology will touch commercial, defense, consumer and other elements, and is a key component of the Aware Enterprise.
2:35-3:30pm INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER
ROBOTICS -> GRAPHICS -> ROBOTICS
Dr. Jessica Hodgins, Professor, Computer Science and Robotics Carnegie Mellon University
              Jessica Hodgins is a Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1992-2000 she on the faculty of the College of Computing and the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center at Georgia Tech. She received an NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. She was editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000-2002 and was SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers Chair. Her research focuses on the coordination and control of dynamic physical systems, both natural and human-made, and explores techniques that allow robots and simulated humans to control their actions in complex and unpredictable environments.
              ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will describe some of the many connections between the research problems encountered in computer animation and in robotics. I will describe my own research path from robotics to graphics and back to robotics to illustrate these connections.
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
              Women are not well represented in the most senior positions of technology companies, and often do not believe that a technical position is a compelling career choice. But there are women who take on these influential senior roles, and this panel talks with a number of them. We have a mix of experience including an experienced CIO, a seasoned CTO from a large company, and the CTO from several successful Silicon Valley start-ups. The panel will explore the roles these women fill in their companies, what they see as the rewards and challenges, and advice they have for those considering a senior technical role.

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
              A cross-university approach will be discussed that reflects monoeducation, networking, and gender oriented organizational reforms in university programs. The concept was developed in Germany in 1997 as a national approach called "Informatica Feminale". Each year it attracts more than 70 female lecturers from universities, research, or industry to give courses on computing topics oriented to existing university curricula. The approach has won a European award for best practice. Since 2003 Austria provides a similar project called the "ditact_women's IT summer studies". Another project will be located in New Zealand in 2005 as the "Computing Women Conference".

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
              This panel will focus on the issue of digital divide in relation to women in developing countries. The opportunities created for women and challenges posed to their participation in the workforce for reaping the benefits offered by information and communication technologies will be explored. In order to transform the divide into an opportunity for growth and development its causes, short/long term effects and measures to decrease the digital divide will be discussed. The effects of cultural and social environment and government policies on digital divide will be highlighted.

DESIGNING NEXT GENERATION WEB UI IN A DECLARATIVE XML FRAMEWORK
Sarah Allen - Software Architect, Laszlo Systems
              There is an opportunity to take ideas from desktop applications and apply them to the web. In addition there are requirements of a web application that suggest alternate user interface constructs. We are seeing the emergence of a new way to develop graphical user interfaces: XML-based languages describe GUI. Mozilla's XUL, Konfabulator, Microsoft's XAML, and LZX from Laszlo Systems are a few examples of this trend.
              This talk will focus on applications and components developed for the Laszlo Presentation Server. Live examples will demonstrate how the platform enables compelling user experiences. Laszlo's component framework shows UI design techniques, such as animation and dynamic keyboard navigation, and may be the first UI framework written entirely in declarative XML. Examples from direct experience developing applications and components will illustrate practical benefits of using a declarative XML approach.
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
              Women have played a significant role in computing from the very beginnings of the field, yet their history is largely unknown. This presentation surveys women's experiences in computing in the United States and United Kingdom since World War II. Topics include women's contributions to computing from the earliest digital computers to the present; obstacles women have faced in pursuing computing careers and strategies for overcoming them; the enduring appeal and rewards of computer work; and how opportunities and challenges have varied over time and between cultures. These observations are illustrated by examples and advice collected from interviews.

ICT INNOVATION FOR EMERGING ECOMONIES
Gita Gopal - Research Director, HP Labs India, HP Labs
              The information revolution in developed countries has radically transformed how people, live, work, play, learn and govern. However, emerging economies have so far seen relatively little benefit. The full benefit of ICT for emerging economies cannot be realized by simply applying products and solutions designed for western requirements. Products need to be designed to solve problems relevant to the local context, taking local conditions into account, and with careful attention to economic viability.
              In this presentation, the challenges of designing ICT for emerging economies will be highlighted and research efforts to design contextually appropriate solutions will be described.

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
              Many computer science faculty work in positions that require heavy teaching loads, leaving little time for discipline-based research. However, all faculty who teach have classroom "research labs" at their fingertips and can, with proper preparation, design studies that can contribute to the body of CS education research knowledge and ultimately improve the quality of CS education. By applying their skills as scientific researchers to the classroom setting, CS faculty can contribute to a better understanding of the tradeoffs among approaches to teaching and learning CS topics. This panel will discuss both challenges and practical issues facing CS education researchers.

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)
              The US presidential election occurs in one month. The last US Presidential election in 2000 was an election systems disaster. Technology is increasingly used to manage elections around the world and in the United States. Will technology make democratic elections more or less fallible or corruptible? What technologies are available, and what are their strengths and vulnerabilities? Barbara Simons, Past ACM national President, is an expert on the subject of problems with Internet voting. Ellen Theisen is the founder of VotersUnite.org, a national organization dedicated to transparent elections. The panel will consist of short presentations, moderated discussion, and audience Q&A.
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
              Cynthia Dwork is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Campus, and a consulting professor at Stanford University. She earned her bachelor's from Princeton University and her master's and doctorate degrees from Cornell University. Dwork has focused her research on foundations of cryptography, complexity theory, Web search, voting theory, distributed computing, interconnection networks, and algorithm design and analysis. Her most recent work is on privacy-preserving datamining. In addition to having worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center and the Compaq Systems Research Center and IBM, she has taught at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and at the University of Siena, Italy. Dwork has published numerous articles in the Journal of the ACM and the SIAM Journal on Computing.
              ABSTRACT: Privacy - and its loss - is a subject of increasing interest as access to information becomes widespread. For technologists to respond to growing demands for privacy protection, precise definitions of specific aspects of privacy are essential. In our view, despite extensive work in the computer science and statistics communities, basic definitions are still lacking.
              This talk concentrates on the problem of "sanitizing" high-dimensional data, such as census data. The difficulty is to balance privacy preservation against utility. Our definition of privacy is motivated by the intuition that the privacy of an individual is preserved to the extent that the individual "blends in with the crowd". Based on this definition, using a geometric approach, we describe some sanitization methods that preserve privacy as well as utility.
              Joint work with Shuchi Chawla, Frank McSherry, Adam Smith, and Hoeteck Wee.
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
              What works and what doesn't in advancing women in high tech companies? This session will start with a 1/2-hour presentation by Catalyst of the findings in their recent publication "Bit by Bit: Catalyst's Guide to Advancing Women in High Tech Companies". The study provides insight from male and female leaders from 27 high tech companies on how companies can best recruit, retain and advance women. This will be followed by a panel of industry executives discussing their practical experiences with mentoring practices and programs and other successful methods for helping women in technical professions.

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
              It is broadly recognized that the participation of women in the study of computer science is at an all time low. More needs to be done to correct this situation, but what? Is there a single program or approach that will work to help reverse the loss of women in the computing sciences? Initiatives at Rice University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have achieved some success in promoting gender equity in computer science. The purpose of this panel is to present several of these, and hopefully help attendees attain information valuable to them for their own programs.

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
              A brief introduction will explain the state of women in computing in the nine countries represented on the panel. Each panelist will then discuss the 2 or 3 major barriers to improving the recruitment and retention of women in computing in their country. Looking at the critical issues that are reoccurring within these countries a discussion will then ensue about what strategies that can be used to enable the dismantling of these barriers around the globe. The focus will be on how can we move forward?
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
              For more than three decades, the world of microprocessors has demonstrated performance increases of greater than five orders of magnitude. There is no secret that these increases are enabled by technology scaling – improving transistor performance to increase frequency, increasing integration capacity to realize complex architectures and reducing energy consumed per operation to keep power dissipation within limits. This workshop examines the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead over the next decade as these trends continue.
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
              The last 15 years have seen the emergence and rapid growth of many types of data networks (Frame Relay, ATM, IP, MPLS, VOIP). With the introduction of IP, the business proposition has changed drastically compared to when we had private line or circuit switched networks. This panel will discuss the technical transformation necessary to stay profitable in this quickly changing market. Women representatives from Cisco and AT&T will compose the panel, providing both vendor and service provider perspectives. These women lead and influence the direction of packet voice and data networks at their respective companies.
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
              This session explores ACM's Java Engagement for Teacher Training Program. JETT facilitates mentoring relationships and supports teaching excellence for high school educators. Following the model established by Margolis and Fisher, JETT is an exemplary example of partnership building (high schools and colleges), gender awareness training, and addressing pipeline issues.

TEACHING COMPUTER ETHICS ACROSS THE COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM
Organizer: Florence Appel, Faculty, Saint Xavier University
              Many computer science educators want to introduce computer ethics into the curriculum, but are unsure about how to raise students’ awareness of the larger context of computing. We would like to discuss successful ways to introduce ethical issues into our courses, and to share ideas about pedagogy and resources.

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
              What is it that keeps women who are clearly interested in engineering from entering Computer Science? And what can we do to encourage more women to stick with it? The presenters will discuss the specific steps they have taken at their respective institutions to encourage women in Computer Science.

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
              The Global Women's Leadership Center (GWLC) at Santa Clara is dedicated to producing women leaders of competence, conscience and compassion who can transform organizations, societies, and economics, to benefit humanity. Rooted in Silicon Valley, the world's innovation hub, we aim to provide unique educational opportunities and leading edge research to take on the global challenges facing women today and tomorrow. This session explores the needs of both technical and non-technical women in order to address major problems as well as ways in which Systers might participate in the activities of the GWLC.

A SYSTERS MEETING
Organizer: Robin Jeffries, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
              A chance for members of the online forum Systers (http://www.systers.org) to meet in person, and for potential new members to see who we are and what we do. Systers is a women-only online forum for technical women providing them with a place to share, learn, mentor, be mentored, vent, and explore the technical work world with like minded women. In this BOF we will be exploring what people like and want from our forum, and in what ways we can set up infrastructure to expand what we already have. The session will be led by Robin Jeffries, the current Her Systers' Keeper.

AFFECTING STUDENTS
Organizer: J McGrath Cohoon, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Sylvia Beyer, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Parkside
              We will discuss recent research findings about the effects of mentoring and other features of the educational environment. Mentoring correlates with progression to graduate school and retention of women. Environmental and psychological variables predict female but NOT male grades in CS courses taken one to three semesters later.

CHANGING THE WORLD FOR WOMEN AND FOR TECHNOLOGY: THE VIRTUAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER (VDC)
Gloria Montano, VDC Director, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
              Learn how the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology harnesses the genius of women to change the world for women and for technology through the VDC network of colleges and universities. This BOF discussion will cover previous year results, VDC faculty and student experiences, best practices, and VDC affiliation.

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
              This panel focuses on graduating students and new professionals to help women understand what working in industry entails. Panel discussions include learning opportunities, challenges, misperceptions, and insight into job choice. Speakers (recent graduates) from different companies address balancing between breadth & depth, measuring effectiveness, and learning lessons in communication.
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.
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
              Configurable systems offer an opportunity to define application-specific architectures. We describe an automated approach to FPGA design space exploration, through a collaboration between parallelizing compiler technology and high-level synthesis tools. We focus on space-time tradeoffs associated with differing amounts of parallelism, communication granularities and custom data layout and present an exploration algorithm, which demonstrates the potential of this approach. As transistor densities increase, enabling more pipelined execution, communication across computing cores, task level parallelism, and data distribution across banked memories will become increasingly important issues. Our analyses will allow the automated application mapping for these emerging infrastructures.
10:30-10:45am ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DIALYSIS PATIENTS
Katie Siek, Research Assistant, Indiana University
              Dialysis patients can only consume 1 liter of fluid and two grams of sodium each day. Currently, patients try to remember or write down in a food diary their fluid and sodium consumption. However, these techniques are insufficient because 80% of patients are unable to restrict their fluid intake. If patients miscalculate their fluid intake they run the risk of hypertension, pulmonary edema, and death. Our research focuses on creating a personal digital assistant application to assist dialysis patients accurately monitor their fluid and sodium intake.
10:50-11:05am DATA VISUALIZATION OF INVISIBLE AIRFLOW HAZARDS DURING HELICOPTER TAKEOFF AND LANDING OPERATIONS
Cecilia Aragon, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
              Many aircraft accidents each year are caused by encounters with unseen airflow hazards near the ground such as vortices, downdrafts, windshear, microbursts, or other turbulence. While such hazards frequently pose problems to fixed-wing airplanes, they are especially dangerous to helicopters, which often have to operate in confined spaces and under operationally stressful conditions.
              We are developing flight-deck visualizations of airflow hazards during helicopter takeoff and landing operations, and are evaluating their effectiveness with usability studies. Our hope is that this work will lead to the production of an airflow hazard detection system for pilots that will save lives.
11:05-11:25am REQUIREMENTS-BASED TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION
Hema Srikanth, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University
              Test case prioritization techniques have been shown to improve regression-testing activities by increasing the rate of fault detection, thus allowing testers to fix faults earlier. The current techniques, mostly code coverage-based, treat all faults equally. I build upon this work to develop a prioritization scheme with two main goals: identifying the severe faults earlier and minimizing the cost of test case prioritization.
11:25-10:45am DNA COMPUTING AND ERRORS
Elena Losseva, Ph D student, University of Western Ontario
              The field of DNA computing can be described as a pursuit of finding strategies to use DNA for performing general-purpose computations. This task has two broad components: data storage and data manipulation. Both of these processes, once implemented in DNA are prone to errors. The DNA strands used for encoding data need to have certain characteristics in order to avoid data loss and erroneous results. DNA code words may attach to each other in unexpected ways and become unsuitable for computation. My research is a study of DNA code words that avoid errors stemming from inappropriate strand interactions.
  PhD Forum 2:
10:15-10:35am PROPOSING CAPS AS A LINK IN THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE DIVIDE
Cynthia Lester, The University of Alabama
              The decline of women in technology disciplines has been given many different labels in current literature such as "the pipeline shrinkage," and the "gender divide." Research in the area of gender differences in computer-related use and behavior has grown significantly. While there are numerous suggested reasons for the decline of women in technology-related disciplines, the perceptions that women hold about their computing capabilities continue to be of interest. The research seeks to explore how a Computer Assisted.
              Peer-modeling Software application (CAPS) can be used to influence females’ level of computer self-efficacy and performance and hence affect their perceptions on computing.
10:35-11:00am IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC REQUESTS AT A BUSY WEB SERVER
Bianca Schroeder, Graduate student, Carnegie Mellon University
              The goal of my work is to improve the user-perceived performance of requests at a busy web site by scheduling existing resources better.
              I first show how to apply this approach to the case of static web requests, i.e. requests of the form "Get me a file". I then extend the idea to improving the performance of web sites during transient periods of overload. The last part of my work is concerned with providing QoS support for dynamic requests, requests that require the server to create the requested information on the fly by accessing a database backend.
11:00-11:20am ENABLING SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS
Moody Altamimi, Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University
              Search technology facilitates text search and does not handle non-alphabetic characters. Math search is a new area of research with many challenges due to the nature of the mathematical writing system. A few of the challenges include enabling the search for a math sentence that can have different representations in different files; as well as taking into account math laws such as priority, commutativity and associativity. This research focuses on developing novel techniques that allow the user to describe a mathematical formula using a simple math query language executed against a data repository of files containing mathematical formulas.
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
              Shor's polynomial time algorithm for factoring numbers on a quantum computer has considerably escalated interest in quantum computation. However, the current inability to build a scalable quantum computer prevents its usage in any computationally significant setting.
              It is necessary to optimize the size and speed of a quantum algorithm to decrease the number of qubits and the coherence time needed to implement the algorithm on a quantum computer. Thus, the optimization of quantum circuits is central to quantum computation. This paper presents a machine-independent compilation framework and several corresponding algorithms for reducing quantum computations into elementary unitary operations.
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
              We describe an approach to information retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) that directly manipulates the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices. We convert the dense term by dimension matrix into a sparse matrix by removing a fixed percentage of the values. We present retrieval and runtime performance results in similar or improved retrieval performance (as compared to LSI), while reducing memory requirements and query response time. Removal of 90% of the values results in significantly reduced memory requirements and dramatic improvements in query response time.
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
              Permuting the rows and columns of a sparse matrix can dramatically reduce the memory requirements of a subsequently computed LU factorization. A perfect elimination matrix is one whose rows and columns can be permuted so that its LU factors require no additional space on top of that required by the original matrix. An implementation of a known algorithm for determining whether a matrix is perfect elimination is described. Running this code on 180 matrices from an assortment of application areas shows that 19 of them are perfect elimination and that almost half contain at least 40% eliminable entries.
11:20-11:45am ON THE IGNORED ASPECTS OF DATA CLUSTERING
Soujanya Vadapalli, PhD Student, International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad
              In case of large high dimensional datasets, the user has no idea about the geometry prevalent in the data. There are standard clustering algorithms to cluster such datasets. But the effect of distance measures on the clustering solutions has been least considered. Another aspect of clustering, which received less recognition is cluster validity. There have been scattered attempts in validating clustering solutions, thus demanding a need for robust cluster validity techniques. In this paper, the effect of various distance measures is investigated and a new cluster validity measure based on the Voronoi diagrams is proposed and evaluated.
  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
              Electronic portfolios, or e-portfolios, have recently become a fashionable and well-publicized method used for assessment and accreditation purposes. Despite their seeming popularity, however, departmentally maintained e-portfolios are not widely used. Further research needs to determine whether or not e-portfolios are an effective means of helping departments with their assessment outcomes. This paper reports on our initial experiences integrating e-portfolios with our Computer Science curriculum—including a survey of what our students thought of the exercise—and of future changes we believe will illustrate that well-designed e-portfolio systems can in fact provide significant advantages over traditional assessment methods.
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
              Our research seeks to develop an attention manager that mitigates the disruptive effects of interruptions by identifying moments of low mental workload in a user’s task sequence. For this we need effective mechanisms to identify user tasks in real-time. In this paper, we show how eye gaze patterns may be used to identify user tasks. We show that gaze patterns can indicate usability issues of interfaces as well as the mental workload that interfaces induce on a user. Our results can inform the design of an attention manager and may lead to new methods to evaluate user interfaces.
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
              Synchronous remote usability studies can be a convenient and cost-effective alternative to conventional local usability studies. Although they are common in the field, there has been little research comparing synchronous remote usability studies with local studies. In our comparison of remote and local studies for an expert interface, the primary differences were in the participant's and facilitator's qualitative experience. The number of usability issues found, their type, and severity were very similar. While more research is needed, our experience suggests that evaluators of expert interfaces will have comparable success identifying usability issues with either remote or local studies.
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
              This paper describes an approach using fuzzy sets to help solve the real world optimization problem of nature reserve design: the objective is to preserve and protect a maximum number of species and habitat for a given amount of resources. Using fuzzy logic to handle the inherent uncertainty in input data, this approach incorporates a measure for species rarity whilst encapsulating a set of reserve heuristics into the solution. Early results suggest that this strategy offers more realistic real-world solutions than does traditional approaches using 0/1 data values and the probabilistic approach.
  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
              A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a network consisting of a set of mobile nodes capable of communicating with each other without the assistance of base stations. The goal of a geocasting protocol is to deliver data packets to a group of nodes that are located within a specified geographical area, i.e., the geocast region. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of several recently proposed MANET geocast routing protocols via simulation: Location-Based Multicast, GeoGRID, and Geocast Adaptive Mesh Environment for Routing.
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
              While developing "bug-free" software is impossible in general, with recent advances in static analysis techniques it is feasible to verify certain classes of security properties for large software systems, thus greatly enhancing end users' confidence on the software. In this paper we identify an important class of security properties that can be reduced to the classical dominance problem and show how they can be checked efficiently and accurately, using a dominance algorithm implemented on top of the JaBA analysis framework.
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
              The use of formal methods has long been recognized as improving the quality of software specifications and implementations, early in the process of software development. Regression testing is an expensive but critical maintenance activity to ensure that modified versions of the system do not "regress". In this paper, we use a model checker as part of a highly- automated regression test generation tool, providing a practical approach to specification based regression testing. Features of our approach that support different specification description languages and different test coverage criteria are also presented.
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
              In this work, we propose a framework for quantifying non-functional requirements (NFRs). This framework uses quality characteristics of the execution domain, application domain and component architectures to refine qualitative requirements into quantifiable ones. Conflicts are resolved during the refinement process and more useful and realistic non-functional requirements are produced. In addition to providing the framework, we present a case study of how the framework was used to resolve conflicting requirements within a system that provides a secure IP telephony service.
Noon-1:30pm Lunch
Noon-1:15pm BOF
MENTORING AND MENTORNET
Carol Muller, Founder and CEO, MentorNet
Stephanie Fox, Director of Technology, MentorNet
              This session is designed for conference attendees who are part of MentorNet's online community, or who want to learn more about it. It will be a highly interactive session, providing opportunities for information exchange about mentoring best practices, how MentorNet works, and a chance to meet your mentor/protege.
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
              Tandy Warnow is Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is a member of five graduate groups (Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior). Her research combines mathematics, computer science, and statistics to develop improved models and algorithms for reconstructing complex and large-scale evolutionary histories in both biology and historical linguistics. Tandy serves on the National Academy of Science's Committee for Interdisciplinarity, and is a member of the board of directors of the International Society for Computational Biology. Tandy received her PhD in Mathematics at UC Berkeley under the direction of Gene Lawler, and did postdoctoral training with Simon Tavare and Michael Waterman at USC. She received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award in Science and Engineering in 1996.
              ABSTRACT: The Tree of Life initiative - to reconstruct the evolutionary history of all organisms - is the computational grand challenge of evolutionary biology. Current methods are limited to problems several orders of magnitude smaller and also fail to provide sufficient accuracy at the high end of their range. The Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRes) project, recently funded by a $11.6M Information Technology Grant from the NSF, funds 33 investigators (including biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians) from 13 institutions, to help develop the computational infrastructure for evolutionary biologists so that they can analyze large datasets.
              In this talk, I will describe the activity in the CIPRES project, and show the progress the group is making towards enabling highly accurate phylogenetic analyses of large datasets. In particular, I will describe our work on developing better techniques for the major NP-hard optimization problems, Maximum Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood.
2:35-3:30pm INVITED TECHNICAL SPEAKER
INSIDE INTEL: RE-IMAGINING COMPUTING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Dr. Genevieve Bell, Senior Researcher, Intel Research
              Genevieve Bell is a Senior Researcher within Intel Labs. She is currently running a three year research project focused on gaining a better understanding of the ways in which cultural practices in urban Asia are shaping people's relationships to new information and communication technologies. Bell has also conducted ethnographic research in a variety of consumer spaces, including malls, retail districts, and museums, within a range of different American households, and beyond the US, including a five-country, strategically situated, ethnographic study of European domestic spaces for several Intel product groups.
              Prior to joining Intel in 1998, Bell taught anthropology and Native American Studies at Stanford University. Bell received her BA/MA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1991. She earned a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University in 1998. She is working on a book based on her fieldwork in Asia.
              ABSTRACT: The knowledge economy, the information society, ubiquitous computing, ambient displays, the digital home -- the mass media would have one think computers have transcended the ugly desktop and have become seamlessly woven into our daily lives. However, that transcendence is hardly complete nor seamless. We struggle with new information and devices, attempting to manage their needs and ours, developing new forms of social etiquette, new ways of policing the boundaries between personal and professional spaces.
              In this talk, I will reflect on the current trajectories for technology design. I will do so from the vantage point of a researcher within a large company and as a cultural anthropologist who has explored the Mimpact of culture on people's relationships to new technologies in urban Asia. I hope to cast a new light on how we 'imagine' technology, and the kinds of work it can and should do, technically and culturally. In so doing, the importance of gender, class and culture are thrown into stark relief.
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
              Two researchers from Project TechForce, a National Science Foundation-funded research project on women and men in the computer and Internet industry, will discuss findings from a web-based survey and in-depth interviews. Davis will consider issues of organizational justice and other factors that may shape the "chilly climate" for women and other members of the "underrepresented majority." Kuhn will focus on the meaning of work, and what attracts—and keeps—women and men in computing. Following the presentations we will welcome discussion, comments, and experiences from the audience.

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 leadership is a way of giving, to the community, to the field, to national (and international) policy, and of getting, from scientists, engineers, and national leaders. We will look at participation in: NSF and DARPA, both as review panelists and as rotators; editorships and program committees; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (National Research Council); ACM and CRA service; advisory boards. We will discuss: What does someone do in this position? Why is serving in this position interesting? What is its impact on the field, on science, on public policy? And why should you think of doing it?

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
              Girls and women are opting out at all phases of the information technology education and career pipeline. Women are increasingly absent from the technical innovation process - at a time when technology plays an ever-growing role in all of our lives. The National Center for Women and Information Technology (www.ncwit.org) is a national coalition of individuals and organizations focused on solving this problem in 20 years. Over the past year, the group has formed a Center whose participants will work together to close knowledge gaps, educate others about potential solutions, and advocate for change at a national level.

TECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE TRENDS IN OIL AND GAS (EVANS)
Francine Evans, Project Lead, Schlumberger
              The objective of this presentation is to illustrate how the oil and gas industry uses computer science technology and to explore future trends in this area. The presentation will describe the types of data in oil and gas, how they are acquired, and how the geoscientist understands and interprets this data in order to predict where to find oil and gas. Finally, the presentation will explore future trends in oil and gas and some of the open problems that a young researcher might be interested in for future work.
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 making the transition from graduate school to an industry or government research lab face many challenges adapting to the expectations and demands of a new environment. The objective of this panel is to bring together a small group of women who have recently made this transition successfully, and have them share strategies for succeeding in this environment. We expect that the panel will raise awareness of the issues and challenges women face when transitioning from academic research to corporate/governmental research, as well as some of the benefits and drawbacks to choosing a research lab over an academic position.

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
              The next generation of CS/IT professionals, drawn from upcoming CS/IT students, will shape the future of this field. Thus, it is critical to attract and promote students who will be future leaders and visionaries and bring diverse perspectives to the table. We will focus on strategies for increasing the pool of women in graduate CS/IT programs and positioning them to become future university faculty and leaders in the field. We will demo our "Outreach Roadshow", a potential model for other institutions; we will encourage discussion about the overall feasibility, effectiveness, and appropriateness of this and other strategies.

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
              There are currently 13 university ACM-W chapters within the United States. The momentum of these chapters is growing as they provide important communities within their institutions. Representatives from four university ACM-W student chapters will describe the activities of their chapter and share their excitement for the changes that they see in their departments. Students and faculty alike will benefit from this panel. Each panel member will briefly describe her institution and then identify activities that have worked best for her chapter in order to place activities within the context of an overall institutional environment.


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
              One month ago, the first Tech Nation Summit took place in San Francisco, seeking to comprehend the role of technology in our world, and to identify and address the challenging issues of our time, either created by or potentially solved by emerging technology. In this session, Tech Nation founder Dr. Gunn is joined by three major participants of the Summit to recount the total experience of the Summit, share their thoughts about the evolution of technology in the world, examine the strength and potential of women in this ongoing conversation, and open the challenge of the future to each of us as individuals, as creators and users of technology, and as members of humanity.
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
              Daniela Rus is an associate professor in the EECS Department at MIT. Previously, she was a professor in the computer science department at Dartmouth College. She holds a PhD degree in computer science form Cornell University. Her research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing, and self-organization. She was the recipient of an NSF Career award. She is a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and a class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow.
              ABSTRACT: A self-reconfiguring robot consists of a set of identical modules that can dynamically and autonomously reconfigure in a variety of shapes, to best fit the terrain, environment, and task. Self-reconfiguration leads to versatile robots that can support multiple modalities of locomotion and manipulation. Self-reconfiguring robots constitute large scale distributed systems. Because the modules change their location continuously they also constitute ad-hoc networks.
              This talk will discuss the challenges and successes of creating self-reconfiguring robots, ranging from designing hardware capable of self-reconfiguration to developing distributed controllers and planners for such systems that are scalable, adaptive, and support real-time behavior.
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
              Life as a non-academic researcher can be like being at sea: calm for a time, and then sudden change. The past five years have been especially turbulent, with the end of the "dot-com" boom and significant funding pressure at major industrial and governmental research labs.
              Change can be scary and inconvenient, but it can also bring new opportunities. This panel brings together women researchers who have recently made career transitions to share their strategies for managing change successfully.
              This panel is part of the Non-Academic Researcher Track, which also includes the panels "Entry-Level Mentoring" and "National Leadership Opportunities."
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
              The panel will present mentoring initiatives launched by various educational institutions to retain and recruit undergraduate students in Computer Science. Research has shown that, given the low participation of women in university computer science programs in North America, mentoring programs are seen as one of the most valuable tools in preventing attrition and improving the overall learning experience among female computer science students. The objective of the panel is to share information on the background, structure, effectiveness and challenges of various mentoring initiatives in the context of the experience of female undergraduates in Computer Science.

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
              This career mentoring panel is comprised of university professors, professors at small colleges, and faculty whose focus is on education. They will address some of the different ways they are involved in teaching.
              There will be a discussion of various techniques to help students learn better, including visualization, animation, and active learning. A tablet PC-based system, Classroom Presenter, that supports the use of active learning will be demonstrated. Finally, the panel will talk about methods for faculty to document their teaching effectiveness and how to deal with problems such as possible gender bias in student evaluations.
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
              During this panel, we will present some basic background information and enhanced features of ubiquitous computing environments. This includes a taxonomy of ubiquitous computing environments, a discussion on how middleware can be used to abstract away the complexity of the environment and techniques for securing these environments.
4:45-5:30pm UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING FOR PROACTIVE HEALTH
Margaret Morris, Senior Researcher, Intel Corporation
Monique Lambert, Senior Research Scientist, Intel Corporation/Stanford University
              This presentation will provide an overview of the proactive health project, and describe opportunities and challenges associated with designing ubiquitous computing applications for proactive health, specifically in the domain of elder care.
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
              K-12 outreach is an important mechanism for recruiting women into computer science. This BoF provides a unique opportunity for those involved in outreach and recruitment to share best practices and to collaborate with researchers of gender underrepresentation. Applying research findings to outreach can result in more effective, sustainable practices.

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
              This is not your average "surviving graduate school" session. Many of us have concerns when facing school such as children, interdisciplinary interests, and diverse backgrounds. We invite all women to our "old-girls network"-building session. Recruits and rookies- get questions answered; veterans- share experiences. Everyone- build contacts and camaraderie.

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
              This BOF will bring together students and educators interested in participating in and strengthening the student research experience. The value of collaborative faculty-student research, the use of projects as recruiting tools, the opportunities available and the experiences of women in research will be discussed.

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
              ACM is the worlds leading computing society. Come meet the ACM leadership, tell us what you'd like us to do for women in computing, and hear from Karen Sollins of MIT and Roscoe Giles of BU about our new project working for diversity throughout ACMs conferences, journals and awards.

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
              We will provide inspiration and a roadmap (including practical advice/tips/information) for GHC attendees who wish to pattern a small, regional conference for women in computing (SRC) after our conference. In a sense, the SRC could be viewed as a mini Grace Hopper, executed on a small, regional scale.

STUDENTS TEACHING STUDENTS
Organizer: Jinger Zhao, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
              The goal of "Students Teaching Students" is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students who have been or will soon be teaching assistants to discuss their concerns, ask questions, and share lessons, experiences, and advice about simultaneously being a student and a teacher in a university.


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
              The group will be invited to share various experiences in successful mentoring programs. Examples from session leaders will focus on the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau demonstration project called Girls' E-Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Technology (GEM-SET). See www.gem-set.org for more information.
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