Program Schedule: Thursday, October 2 - Session 1
10:00 — 11:00 a.m.
Tools and Talk: Conversational Code and the Changing World of the Internet
Location: Quandary Peak III
Presenter: Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo!
The Internet has always been about communication, conversation and collaboration. In this talk Ms. Churchill will draw on a number of research projects that have looked at the communicational aspects of collaborative work. She will describe some recent studies focused on the design of developer networks and of craft communities online, and consider the ways in which certain tools, applications and platforms do and do not support collaborative conversations. Through this work, Ms. Churchill will recast information search as a social practice, complementing - and perhaps challenging - the dominant vision of search as the attempt by an individual to satisfy an information need. There will be an open discussion to how this shifting view affects the design of social search technologies.
Organizations Building a Better World: ABI, ACM-W, CRA-W and NCWIT
Location: Torreys Peak III
Panelists: Telle Whitney (Anita Borg Institute), Carla Ellis (Duke University), Lucy Sanders (NCWIT), Elaine Weyuker (AT&T Laboratories)
The panel will disseminate information regarding four major “Women in IT” organizations’ (The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing, CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, Nation Center for Women & IT) projects and ways that audience members can participate in the organizations’ projects plus brainstorm new project areas and emphases with audience members.
Transforming Yourself into a Technical Leader
Location: Quandary Peak I - II
Panelists: Stephen Tolopka (Intel), Monique Jeanne Morrow (Cisco Systems), Catherine C. Lasser (IBM), Ramune Nagisetty (Intel), Ira Pramanick (Google), Linda Apsley (Microsoft)
What does “being a leader” feel like on the technical career ladder? Is it different from being a manager? What new skills are needed? How do you develop your unique voice and express it with impact? Drawing on transformative experiences from their careers, senior women from Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft show how they established themselves as voices of influence and provide practical tips to help build YOUR career.
Fighting Crime using Gunshot Location Systems
Location: Torreys Peak IV
Presenters: Elecia White (ShotSpotter), Sarah Newman (ShotSpotter)
Gunshot location systems direct police to crime scenes quickly, saving lives and catching criminals. We describe the science behind the ShotSpotter system including the audio signal processing, gunshot triangulation, incident classification, and the police dispatcher interface. Through the efforts of engineers and scientists, drawing on a wide variety of computer science disciplines, gunshot location systems have made the leap from theory to application and are building a better world.
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Future Mobile Technology Empowering Users: Understands, Guides, Decides
Presenter: Mary Smiley (Intel)
Future mobile devices will understand users at a depth that was never before possible, enabling technology to guide them and even act on their behalf throughout their life. This is already starting to be realized through increasingly mobile technology, pervasive connectivity, context awareness and novel means of interacting with devices.
How to Manage Your Career When “Life Gets in the Way”
Location: Torreys Peak I - II
Panelists: Kathleen E Naughton (Hewlett-Packard), Jody Mahoney (Anita Borg Institute), Celeste Null (Intel), Valentina Salapura (IBM), Rebecca Coleman (Microsoft), Henry Schauer (Hewlett-Packard)
Life is filled with unexpected events that demand attention over everything else. This panel will explore how women have managed their careers while dealing with breast cancer, divorce, single-parenting, transitioning elderly parents from independent living, and menopause. We’ll hear about the tools used by these women to survive and prosper through these life events. We’ll also hear a male manager’s perspective.
Risky Business – Building Teams and Taking Risk as the Leader
Location: Crestone Peak II - IV
Invited Speaker : Penny Herscher, CEO FirstRain
What does it take to lead a team? What makes a good leader? Leaders have different personalities but good leaders have characteristics in common when it comes to vision, people and taking risk. Penny’s talk will share her beliefs on the essentials of leadership, peppered with examples from the two very different companies she has led. She’ll describe why the team is so important, how to build it to be world class, and how she thinks about risk as she faces company defining decisions. The talk will be interactive with Q&A at the end.
Innovating with Chip Multi-Threading Technology
Location: Crestone Peak I
Presenter: Catherine Ahlschlager (Sun Microsystems)
The goal of this talk is to encourage researchers and students to participate and innovate using chip multi-threading (also known as CMT) technology. At the end of the presentation, audience will know what is CMT and how to start their own innovation by taking advantage of the infrastructure made available by the OpenSPARC program.
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Outside of Normal Operating Conditions: Using Commercial Hardware in Space Computing Platforms
Presenter: Heather M Quinn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Over the past decade field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been useful in speeding up digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, and FPGA implementations can be orders of magnitude faster than microprocessor implementations. As many national security satellites are DSP-oriented, many organizations have started using commercial FPGAs to process data closer to the sensor. Using commercial technology successfully in this environment has lead to new research into fault tolerance and resilience.