Program Schedule: Birds of a Feather and Web 2.0 Session
Friday, October 3rd
5:10 p.m. — 6:10 p.m.
Setting Up An Effective Organization To Support Girls
Location: Torreys Peak III
Presenters: Ira Pramanick (Google), Fauzia Saeed (Sun Microsystems), Katy Dickinson (Sun Microsystems), Kristin Y. Rozier (NASA), Meenakshi Kaul-Basu (Sun Microsystems)
The MAGIC program for mentoring middle and high school girls was kicked off at GHC2007. The MAGIC team has spent the past year setting up the infrastructure towards building an effective organization for supporting these girls. We will discuss basic elements of such an infrastructure, and the successes and setbacks that the MAGIC team has faced. Come offer your thoughts, ideas and experiences in related areas!
How to Get Your Dream Job After Graduate School
Location:Quandary Peak I - II
Presenters: Claris Castillo (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Mara Silva (Virginia Tech), Dilma da Silva (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Patty Lopez (Hewlett-Packard), Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Raquel Romano (Google)
This BOF will tap into the practical knowledge of experienced professionals to discuss (a) how to help graduate students identify a career path (e.g. researcher, developer) that is right for her based on her skill set, experience, and available growth opportunities; and (b) what exactly are the steps that a graduate student needs to take while in school to improve the chances of getting her dream job after graduation.
Student Groups Networking + Integrating Ideas = Together We Can Make a Better World
Location: Crestone Peak II - IV
Presenters: Alicia Chong (Monterrey Institue of Technology and Superior Education, ITESM, Mexico), Sunayana Sitaram (National Institute of Technology, Surat, India), Aakriti Agarwal (Nanyang Technological University), Kathleen Tsoukalas (Simon Fraser University)
This session, organized by four members of different student groups, from different institutions and different countries, focuses on how to build Women in Technology Student Groups around the globe by integrating our ideas, sharing old ones and investigating new ones. Our goal is to help new and old groups grow, because Together We Can Build a Better World. The session will be interactive and audience participation is encouraged.
Experiences with Maternity Leave and Returning to Work
Location: Quandary Peak III
Presenters: Tarik Ono (Sun Microsystems), Gilda Garreton (Sun Microsystems)
Raising young children and working full-time is a challenge for all women, especially those involved in fast-changing areas of computer science like parallel programming, mobile computing or hardware design. This BoF will provide an avenue for all women in computing, be it in academia or in industry, US based or foreign, to share their experiences with maternity leave and returning to work after the leave.
Using Oral History Stories in Computing Education
Location: Torreys Peak IV
Presenters: Vicki L. Almstrum (The University of Texas at Austin), Barbara Boucher Owens (Southwestern University), Lecia J. Barker (NCWIT), E. Anne Gates Applin (Ithaca College)
This session highlights recent developments in the Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP). The organizers report briefly on the current status of the project and on the results from the Working Group at the SIGCSE ITiCSE Conference. Participants will react to existing materials, share ideas for continued growth of the project, and suggest ways to use the interviews and other materials in pre-college and college settings.
Expanding your HPC toolkit using the TeraGrid
Location: Crestone Peak I
Presenters: Daphne Siefert-Herron (Indiana University), Laura McGinnis (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Vickie E. Lynch (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the TeraGrid provides essential computational and data storage resources to the national research community. Researchers can use the TeraGrid to access more than 750 teraflops of computing resources and 30 petabytes of data storage. This session is for anyone interested in expanding their access to HPC resources using the TeraGrid and talking with others who have used or who are starting to use TeraGrid resources.
Web 2.0 Session: Developing a Collaboration Platform based on Web 2.0 Technology
Location:Torreys Peak I - II
Presenters: Jane Snowdon (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), William Hutson (IBM)
Fueled by Web 2.0 technologies and pervasive, inexpensive access to the internet, the way that customers, suppliers, and business partners are conducting commerce and creating, distributing and consuming content is radically changing. We describe a web business platform for a company’s ecosystem that uses advanced technologies suchas Web 2.0, SOA, and data analytics to offer tremendous benefits including better overall lead and opportunity visibility, solution development, co-marketing strategy, and tighter collaboration.