Professor, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil

Scientists from all domains have something in common – they must continuously analyze data to conduct their research, in what has become known as “data-centric science”. The volume of data involved is usually very large, e.g., when astronomers conduct sky surveys, or chemists run simulations on chemical compounds. In other situations, data can be also scarce, e.g., when archaeologists discover prehistoric human bones, or biologists study a rare species. Whether in large or small volumes, rare or common, scientific data usually comes in many formats and from very many sources. Its management involves experts from distinct domains, working in interdisciplinary and multi-institutional teams.

A challenge for computer scientists is to design new methods and algorithms, and construct software and hardware tools to help these scientists from other domains to manage, analyze and visualize their data. This, in turn, has brought about the need for a new kind of training for computer scientists, who must learn how to work in a multidisciplinary world, and deal with a variety of domain-specific requirements.

The talk will give an overview of some of the challenges of conducting computer science research in this new scenario. It will concentrate on the new skills required (technical and social), with examples from several scientific fields, followed by a case study in agricultural planning.

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Panelists: Patty Lopez (Intel), Susan Brown (New Mexico State University), and Catherine Lopez (Marshall Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified School District)

Research has clearly demonstrated that an inclusive organizational culture in industry, government, and academia is critical to recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. K-12 teacher training in multicultural education has existed for 30 years to address bias in the classroom. This workshop will increase bias awareness through interactive exercises and demonstrates the need for training in multicultural education in higher education.

Panelists: Becky Sundling (Microsoft), Pam Montana (Intel), Christina Banta (Intuit), Lisa Rom (Symantec), Shirley Gaw (Google), and Tammy Neeley (Kaiser Permanente)

Today’s healthcare consumers are connected to digital information and care resources on-the-go. Billions of dollars will be spent by online-enabled adults over the next several decades to manage healthcare for themselves and their families. Likewise, today’s healthcare providers are exploring ways to optimize operations and enable patient data sharing between physicians to improve the quality of care. This panel will explore hot market segments, job opportunities and emerging research areas.

Panelists: Heather Richter Lipford (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Diana K. Smetters (Palo Alto Research Center), and Mary Ellen Zurko (IBM)

In many security solutions, the human has been identified as the “weakest link” in the system, as human errors are a cause of many security vulnerabilities. Usability plays a major role in designing and deploying security and privacy technologies that actually work. In this panel, leaders in the usable security community will discuss taking a user-centered approach to the design and evaluation of security and privacy technologies.

Panelists: Deb Agarwal (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Catharine van Ingen (Microsoft Research), Ewa Deelman (Intercollegiate Studies Institute and University of Southern California), and Kristin Tolle (Microsoft Research)

Many of the problems scientists are tackling today are at a scale and/or complexity that they require advances in computer science to address them. The challenge for the scientists and the computer scientists is bridging the gap between the disciplines to collaborate. We hope to inspire computer scientists to pursue interdisciplinary work with scientists. Enabling science breakthroughs in fields like climate change and health care is incredibly rewarding.

Panelists: Gayna Williams (Microsoft), Kate Kelly (Microsoft), Kaoutar El-Maghraoui (IBM), Avani Patel (Symantec), Lora Brock (Blackboard Inc.), and Shana Venson (Lockheed Martin)

Getting ready to graduate? Wondering what to do in the next stage of your life? The panelists will talk about the top things they wish they knew before graduation. Find out what helped them succeed in the first five years of their careers. Leave with a set of tips for getting your career off on the right foot and how to prepare while you are still in school.

Panelists: Joan Francioni (Winona State University), Susanne Hambrusch (NSF and Purdue University), Rodger Susan (Duke University), and Mary Fernández (AT&T Labs Research)

Most CSE women are in departments that lack senior women and thus crucial mid-career advising often never happens. Surveys of associate professors in 2004-06 showed that fewer than half of the participants had discussions with their head on identifying and formulating career goals. This panel will provide information about effective career management strategies for the mid-career stage, specifically including effective communication, having a mentor, and increasing visibility (effective self-promotion).

Panelists: Natalia Vinnik (Yahoo!), Sara Ford (Microsoft), Olga Natkovich (Yahoo!), and Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation)

Industry leaders in the Open Source Community bring their passion and expertise to excite women about the possibilities of Community Developed and Open Source Software. Are you scared to publish your code to the public? Wondering what it really means to be involved in a community-developed software project? In this session, we will break down the stigmas of Open Source Software by sharing personal and professional experiences of getting started with Open Source Projects.

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Panelists: Erin Chapple (Microsoft), Stacey Seargent (Connect Growth and Development), Alyssa Henry (Amazon), Meg Layton (Symantec), Ira Pramanick (Google), and Yolanda Poirier (Oracle)

Do you have an inner voice saying “I should be better …” or “I should have known …”? Is it so familiar you’ve given it a name? Does it drain energy and distract you? In this panel, women who have faced their inner critic discuss how to change the conversation to build confidence and power. They’ll discuss the critic, how it shows up, and how to reduce its negative impact.

Research Scientist, eBay Research Lab

E-commerce sites vary in the degree of structure of the data that are being generated and in the scope of the technologies that can be used to search and analyze these data. Merchants who operate e-commerce sites to sell from their own inventory control the way it is described and organized, and generally use a common identity structure, with model numbers in catalogs. In these database-like worlds, buyers can search for products using many criteria, and the merchants can analyze their inventory or even harness the power of the crowd to forecast user demand based on what similar users have bought.

By contrast, a global marketplace like eBay connects buyers with sellers of all sizes, locations and expertise, from professional power sellers to mom-and-pop shops and one-time individual vendors. Sellers from all venues create their own ads for products ranging from electronics, to clothing, collectibles, or art. Such global marketplaces share characteristics with both merchant sites and online communities, and generate a flurry of data: product descriptions, purchasing transactions, seller feedbacks, opinions in discussion forums, and user query logs. Improving search or extracting e-commerce intelligence in such a semi-structured environment is a special challenge, requiring the craft of selecting the right data, extracting the right features, efficient parallel processing and clever engineering as much as statistics or machine learning algorithms.

I will describe tools for mining product descriptions, user queries and session logs in order to understand and improve buyer and seller experience on the site.

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Presenters: Lecia Barker (University of Texas) and Joanne Cohoon (University of Virginia)

Evidence-based interventions embedded in a strategic plan = elegant solution to gender parity in undergraduate computing. National Center for Women & IT research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon describe how to maximize effectiveness with shared vision, specific and reasonable goals, relevant, evidence-based interventions, and careful tracking of what works and what doesn’t to get and keep women in the major. Workbooks and resources will be provided to participants.

Panelists: Kore Koubourlis (Microsoft), Gerlinde Zibulski (SAP AG), Linda Bernardi (StraTerra Partners LLC), and Alyssa Henry (Amazon Simple Storage Service)

Cloud-based applications and Software as a Service present unique security, privacy and compliance concerns. Hear about top risks facing users of online services; areas users should evaluate when entrusting data to a service provider; the latest technologies that address these risks; and a risk management framework that delivers controls at scale, across global requirements and multiple service lines. Cloud applications have indeed a fair chance for IT security!

Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities

Presenters: Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)

As online communities grow and user generated content increases, the need for community management also rises. Community management has three main purposes: to create a positive experience for existing participants, to encourage appropriate, socio-normative behaviors, and to encourage potential participants to make contributions. Research indicates that the quality of content a potential participant sees on a site is highly influential; off-topic, negative comments are a particularly strong boundary to participation. A problem for community managers, therefore, is the detection and elimination of such undesirable content. As a community grows this task becomes more daunting. In this paper, we introduce an approach to automatic detection of inappropriate negative user contributions. We apply sentiment analysis techniques to the task of classifying short comments about news stories, a challenge due to the lack of context in the short comments. In combination with relevance detection techniques, this work will inform a hybrid community management system by automatically flagging off-topic and hostile comments.

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Faceted Identity, Faceted Lives: Social and Technical Issues in Being Yourself Online

Presenters: Shelly Farnham (Yahoo!) and Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)

This paper explores key issues people experience managing personal boundaries within and across social technologies. We look in particular at email and online social networks. We offer a theoretical framework for understanding the errors in assumptions about identity that are currently inscribed into the sharing models of social technology systems. Through a questionnaire study we examine how people facet their identities and their lives, and how these facets are expressed through use of technology. We found for more mature users family was an extremely important context for sharing online, that men with families were particularly likely to have incompatible identity facets, and that email was still a preferred form of communication for sharing across facets of life. We found people with higher levels of incompatibility across facets are particularly worried about sharing in the context of social networks.

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Geographical Characterization of the Web

Presenters: Xinh Huynh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

As the growth of the world wide web has spread around the world, it has become a major source of information and communication in more and more regions, many of which map to a country. In this paper, we look at how the web is partitioned into regions or countries and analyze the interconnection among regions by examining the hypertext links between them, based on a large scale graph of the web with more than 100 billion web pages and more than a trillion edges, encompassing over 250 regions.

Our results show that although most of the observed web linkage occurs within a region’s borders, there is substantial interaction between regions. Our results deepen our understanding of the high level structure of the web, showing how this graph crosses geographic boundaries.

Panelists: Gilda Garreton (Oracle), Nadia Anguiano¬-Wehde (IBM), Madeline Vega (IBM), and Meenakshi Kaul¬-Basu (Oracle)

Today’s engineer is an expert in collaboration. The ability to work in cross-functional teams and across multiple disciplines is no longer an option, but rather an absolute necessity. This interactive session will explore the collaborative efforts among software, electrical, and mechanical engineers to successfully develop and introduce cutting-edge technologies into the server market and will provide tips on becoming knowledgeable across areas at your workplace.

Panelists: Bonnie MacKellar (St. John’s University), Karin Verspoor (University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine), Dale Wolff (Emerging Health Information Technology), Mia McCroskey (Emerging Health Information Technology), and Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, College of Staten Island)

Healthcare and biomedical informatics are widely seen as solutions to the woes of our healthcare system. Women seem to be especially attracted to these fields, perhaps because they want to make a difference. In this panel, we will explore the wide range of opportunities for computing professionals in the world of medicine, biomedical research, and healthcare through the stories of our participants, who represent a range of career paths.

In cooperation with the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

Panelists: Cecilia Aragon (University of Washington and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Patty Lopez (Intel), Sandra Johnson (IBM), and Loretta Moore (Jackson State University)

This Women of Color Panel represents a continuation of a similar panel held at Grace Hopper 2009. Last year, the panel focused on issues unique to women of color in computing and strategies for overcoming these issues. This year the focus is on strategies for excelling and thriving as a woman of color. In particular, the panel will discuss effective ways to promote yourself, award nominations, making the best of given opportunities, and utilizing one’s networks. The panel consists of women of color who have excelled in their positions. The panel is organized by the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS.

Panelists: Cat Allman (Google), Jenny Han Donnelly (Yahoo!), Margo Seltzer (Harvard University), and Sarah Sharp (Intel)

Some people think that all work on free and open source projects is done purely as a charitable donation, to solve a challenge or “scratch an itch,” or to support a cause. These people are not entirely correct. These *are* common and good reasons to be involved in FOSS, but they are not the whole story. You can get a job, make money, advance in your existing career, and build a start-up – all through working in FOSS development.

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Panelists: Katy Dickinson (Huawei Technologies), Frances E. Allen (IBM), Marcy Alstott (Hewlett-Packard), Lucinda M Sanders (NCWIT), Robert Walker (Kent State University) and Manuela M. Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University)

There are hundreds of awards available to women in computing. In industry, promotions and high-status titles can serve the same function as awards. Some organizations offer higher pay, public acknowledgment, or seniority to winners of major awards. What difference does it make if you get an award? How do we ensure that more women students, professionals, and academics will get into the queue and on the lists of those honored?

Panelists: Ellen Spertus (Google and Mills College), Sharon Perl (Google), and Jill P. Dimond (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Google App Inventor for Android (AIA) is a visual programming environment for creating mobile phone applications, designed with the goal of making Computer Science attractive to students not motivated by existing offerings. Attendees will get hands-on experience with AIA, led by presenters who are developers of AIA and have successfully taught it to girls and college women, enabling attendees to evaluate the use of AIA in their own outreach.

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Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

Good health is a major contributor to our quality of life. Improvements in the cost-effective delivery of quality healthcare that is personalized to individual needs are an important priority to our society. Both acute health emergencies and chronic conditions require care. That care comes both from professionals and from family and friends; it occurs both in institutions and at home; it is both preventative and responsive.

Computing and information science and engineering play an increasingly essential role in providing that care. Every part of the computing and behavioral sciences can contribute to significant advances in health and healthcare. We have major opportunities now to combine our science and technical interests and expertise with our understanding of and empathy for care-giving roles and responsibilities – to do compelling research that has high societal payoff.

In this talk, I will survey some of the ongoing research and emerging opportunities in this field. My talk is drawn from a broad-based workshop on “Discovery and Innovation in Health IT” that I co-chaired in fall 2009. I look forward to sharing with you my enthusiasm for this important convergence of disciplines.

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Panelists: Gloria Townsend (DePauw University), Deanna Kosaraju (Anita Borg Institute), Joanne Cohoon (NCWIT), and Elaine Weyuker (ACM-W)

Small regional celebrations for women in computing are springing up all over the United States. This panel will discuss the formation of the Grace Hopper Regional Consortium; talk about where regional celebrations are planned over the next few years, and how attendees can work together in their own community to start a mini-Hopper with easy step-by-step instructions and learn what support is available.

Panelists: Caroline Simard (Anita Borg Institute), Bruce Bigler (Intel), Gabby Silberman (CA Technologies), Will Allen (HP), Luis Fraga (University of Washington), Colin Bodell (Amazon.com), and Patty Lopez (Intel Corporation)

Organizational change to promote women and minorities into key positions on the management and technology ladders can be accelerated when male advocates in the workplace are enlisted and utilized effectively. Sharing best practices of how to create awareness, to engage, and to maintain support by male advocates enables us to be more successful in our chosen career paths and is critical to increasing the representation of women and minorities in technology.

EmailTime: Visualization of the Temporal Email

Presenters: Minoo Erfani Joorabchi (Simon Fraser University)

To accomplish Social Network Analysis (SNA), we design and develop EmailTime, a tool for visualizing and analyzing the email dataset (a social network) over the course of time that enable the user (analyst) to interactively explore the email data of individuals or groups. We present the EmailTime’s features such as multiple views of plot and histogram, filtering, etc. along with visualization examples of Enron email dataset as our benchmark. It also evaluates some measurements such as centrality and similarity of individuals in the network. EmailTime helps the user to find out “who” knows “what” and “when” and discover the unusual behaviors in the network.

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Integrating Multiple Computational Techniques for Improving Image Access: Applications to Digital Collections

Presenters: Judith Klavans (University of Maryland, College Park) and Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, College Park)

Museums traditionally rely on trained cataloging professionals to create metadata for their collections. While this authoritative information is well-grounded, it is brief and limited in its description of the museum objects since the human cataloging task is time-consuming and expensive. New techniques provide an opportunity to expand subject-oriented explanatory metadata. Social tags and linguistic analysis of descriptive text holds promise, but there are many challenges to integrating these computational techniques for museum applications. In this paper, we present our initial investigations along these lines and discuss a research program to improve the integration of computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, and recommender systems to improve access to images in a museum context.

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Visualizing Search Results: Evaluating an Iconic Visualization

Presenters: Minoo Erfani Joorabchi (Simon Fraser University)

Commercial websites offer many items to potential site users. However, most current websites display results of a search in text lists, or as lists sorted on one or two single criteria. Finding the best item in a text list based on multi-priority criteria is an exhausting task, especially for long lists. Visualizing search results and enabling users to perceive the tradeoffs among the results based on multiple priorities may ease this process. To investigate this, two different techniques for displaying and sorting search results are studied in this paper; Text, and XY Iconic Visualization. The goal is to determine which technique for representing search results would be the most efficient one for a website user. We conducted a user study to compare the usability of the two techniques. Collected data is in the form of participants’ task responses, a satisfaction questionnaire, qualitative observations, and participants’ comments. According to the results, iconic visualization is better for overview (it gives a good overview in a short amount of time) and search with more than two criteria, while text-based performs better for displaying details.

Panelists: Meenakshi Kaul-Basu (Oracle), Lesley Kao (Yahoo!), Radha Ratnaparkhi (IBM Research), Jan Roberts (Netapp), and Elizabeth Harmon Reid (Google)

Enterprises are leveraging more global resources to produce and market products around the world. This panel will examine both the need to go global, and the best practices and learnings in product design, role distribution, market analysis, technology infrastructure, and cultural boundaries that must be considered when building a global team or taking a product to another country. Why go global, and when will you succeed if you do?

Panelists: Lara Deek (University of California, Santa Barbara), Nalini Vasudevan (Columbia University), Janet Kayfetz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Martha Kim (Columbia University), and Lamia Yousseff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Scientists who will lead our discipline are those not only with sound analytical skills, but those who partner their technical accomplishments with excellent communication skills. Excellent presenting/writing skills are fundamental requirements for professional success and impact one’s ability to be recognized and accepted in a range of professional contexts. Through this panel, we hope to increase awareness about the importance of developing such competencies and discuss a few fundamental principles for effective scientific delivery.

The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.

There are two rounds of competition at each conference hosting an SRC and a grand finals competition: First Round Competitions- The first round is usually referred to as the Poster Session. Judges will review the posters and speak to participants about their research; a group of semi-finalists will be chosen to present at the second round of the competition. Second Round Competitions – Semi-finalists continue by giving a short presentation of their research before a panel of judges, with a supporting power point presentation. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Three winners will be chosen in each category, undergraduate and graduate.

Panelists: Sandra Covington (Yahoo!), Alice Bonhomme-Biais (Google), Jamie Lockwood (Yahoo! Labs), and Louiqa Raschid (University of Maryland)

Are you interested in community service? Are you wondering how Open Source can be used as a tool for good? Community based organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have utilized Open Source development as a means of creating applications for disaster relief and humanitarian efforts. This session gives an overview of how community-based organizations have collaborated with academia and the private sector to develop applications for humanitarian purposes. Panelists from various organizations will share their experiences with developing Open Source collaboration applications that have been used to manage disaster relief efforts in countries like Haiti and Sri Lanka. Panelists will present technical and non-technical viewpoints on how to get involved in humanitarian Open Source efforts.

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Panelists: Patricia A. K. Fletcher (SAP), Penny Herscher (FirstRain), Nora Denzel (Intuit), Polly Sumner (SalesForce), and Shophie Vanderbroek (Xerox)

The panel discussion provides insight into the factors and competencies needed to acquire a board in the technology industry. With so few women on boards in technology, attaining a directorship must be all but impossible, right? Wrong. Offering pragmatic discussions based on personal experience related to recent research related findings, each of the executive panelists share candid insights the strategies they took to earn their seats at the executive table.

Panelists: Gilda Garreton (Oracle), Patty Lopez (Intel), and Dilma da Silva (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)

Application development for iPhone, Smartphones, camera phones, netbooks, and other smart devices are explored in the context of their native operating systems. What are the challenges of developing for devices with limited resources? What is their fault tolerance? Can applications be ported between devices? What are the opportunities in this space for research, entrepreneurship and commercialization? What are the applications for social good? Best practices and challenges will be shared.

Panelists: Caitlin Sadowski (University of California, Santa Cruz), Gillian Smith (University of California at Santa Cruz), Gail Carmichael (Carleton University), Anne Sullivan (University of California at Santa Cruz), Fauzia Saeed (Teradata Corporation), and Michelle F. Hutton (Stanford University)

Middle and high school education is crucial in shaping girls’ perceptions of computing. Game design challenges misconceptions about computing and introduces computational thinking. This panel will discuss its effectiveness for increasing girls’ interest in computing, compare several languages for teaching young students, and share experiences with mixed versus single-gender groups. We will also discuss strategies for attracting girls to outreach programs and promoting diversity in recruitment. Audience participation is encouraged.

Panelists: Jennifer Goodall (State University of New York, Albany), Sharon Mason (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Kristen Kielbasa (University at Albany)

In celebrating technical women’s accomplishments and empowering women to persist in the computing pipeline, we sometimes become targets for negativism from colleagues and students who think women need or want special treatment. Often, we may feel as if we’re swimming upstream. This session will explore different reactions to women supporting women, such as attending Grace Hopper and running programs attractive to a diverse population.

Panelists: Alyssa Rosenzweig (University of Toronto), Victoria Schwanda (Cornell University), and Jennifer Rosenzweig (Dragonfly Organization Resource Group)

Within computer science there exists a nontraditional group with technical expertise, but also a passion for aesthetics, interaction experience and human behavior. Our contributions are valuable, yet we may feel the pressure to code to prove that we can do the “real work.” The label “computer scientist” suits us, yet not by the common definition. Join us as we explore what it means to be a “computer scientist.”

Google Joins with NYU’s Women in Computing and Princeton’s Graduate Women in Science and Engineering to Inspire High Schools Girls to Pursue Studies in Computer Science and Engineering! How We Planned, Raised Money For, and Repeated an Annual Outreach Event that gets High School Girls Excited About Computer Science and Engineering.

Presenter: Sana Odeh (New York University)

Google joins with NYU’s Women in Computing and Princeton’s Graduate Women in Science and Engineering to inspire high schools girls (9th and 10th grades level) to pursue studies in Computer Science and Engineering. The “Annual Computer Science and Engineering Instruction for NYC Girls” is designed to get young women excited about computer science and engineering. The event draws over 220 girls along with their teachers from 22 high schools in New York City.

Panelists: Ioana Burcea (Unviersity of Toronto), Rosa Enciso (Microsoft), Cindy Rubio-González (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Somayeh Sardashti (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Yasuko Watanabe (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Networking is vital for your personal and career growth. Yet, it can be challenging if you are unfamiliar with the process, or if your culture and customs do not fit into those of the majority. In this Birds-of-a-Feather session, we will focus on issues women, as well as minority people, face when attending technical conferences and suggest strategies to overcome them.

The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.

There are two rounds of competition at each conference hosting an SRC and a grand finals competition: First Round Competitions- The first round is usually referred to as the Poster Session. Judges will review the posters and speak to participants about their research; a group of semi-finalists will be chosen to present at the second round of the competition. Second Round Competitions – Semi-finalists continue by giving a short presentation of their research before a panel of judges, with a supporting power point presentation. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Three winners will be chosen in each category, undergraduate and graduate.

Panelists: Leslie Hawthorne, Selena Decklemann (Emma), Gregory Hislop (Drexel University), Deborah Nicholson (Free Software Foundation), Terri Oda (Carleton University), and Pinar Yanardag (Bogazici University)

Are you interested in contributing to a Free or Open Source software project, but you’re not sure how to get started? Wondering about some of the social aspects of participating in the community, as well as the technical details? During this panel discussion, key contributors to several Free and Open Source Software projects will discuss tips for successfully engaging with the project of your choice. Panelists will share their own experiences getting started in Free and Open Source development. They will also share best practices with audience members, helping newcomers understand the basics of contributing to Open Source so their initial foray is most effective.

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Panelists: Ann-Marie Horcher (Nova Southeastern University), and Diane Glossom (Indiana University)

This workshop connects attendees with a new area of computing, e-textiles and soft computing. Traditionally technology has been engineered with rigid materials, using assembly skills such as wiring and soldering. The new field of computational textiles explores using fabric in combination with sewn conductive thread to assemble computationally-enhanced textile materials. This workshop will engage attendees in constructing their own sewn circuit project, the precursor for more complex computationally-based e-textile projects.

Coordinators: Avni Khatri (Yahoo! Inc.) and Jennifer Redman (Buunabet)

Facilitators: Fran Boon (Sahana Software Foundation), Jenny Han Donnelly (Yahoo! Inc.), Jennifer (Kobi) Hsu (University of Maryland), Jamie Lockwood (Yahoo! Labs), Louiqa Raschid (University of Maryland and Sahana Software Foundation Board of Directors), and Pat Tressel (Sahana Software Foundation)

As a culmination to the Grace Hopper Conference Open Source Track, come participate in a Codeathon for Humanity with an established open source project dedicated to humanitarian projects. This is a hands-on event where you will work with other conference attendees to build software that directly helps those in need. Come do good while contributing to an active free and open source software project!

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