Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Abstract: Life is intrinsically mechanical yet the sense of touch, hearing, pain and proprioception remain poorly understood. Nature uses systemic changes in the local mechanical properties, adhesion, and motion of cells to govern these senses as well as our development, bloodflow, and breathing. Yet most of cell biology is conducted in static conditions and with little quantification of the forces observed in basic life processes. What are the opportunities? How do you prepare to work across disciplines? and what are some of the unique challenges in working with biologists and physicians to create new methods, new metrologies and new metrics? Many exciting questions remain for biologists and engineers to answer together and I’ll describe a few exciting questions we are working on and promising directions for future interdisciplinary research.

Biography:

Beth Pruitt
Dr. Beth Pruitt did her BS at MIT and MS and PhD at Stanford. She worked on Piezoresistive Cantilevers For Characterizing Thin-Film Gold Electrical Contacts during her PhD. During her post-doc, she worked on nanostencils and polymer MEMS. She joined the Stanford Mechanical Engineering faculty in Fall 2003 and started the Stanford Microsystems Lab.

Her research includes the development of novel processes and micromachined sensors and actuators for measuring micro-mechanical behavior, the analysis, design, and control of integrated electro-mechanical systems., and biomedical applications of nanofabricated devices with the goal of developing integrated MEMS-biological test platforms, precise measurement and analysis systems, and reliable manufacture methods. She has received an NSF CAREER award, and DARPA YFA award and the Anita Borg Institute Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award. Current lab support is comprised of NSF, NIH, DARPA, CIRM and Stanford Bio-X grants. Prior to her Ph.D., she was an officer in the U.S. Navy, serving first at NAVSEA08, the engineering headquarters of the Navy nuclear program, then as a Systems Engineering instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy, where she also taught offshore sailing. She still enjoys an occasional day on the water, biking, skiing and walking her dog.

Panelists: Cecilia Aragon (University of Washington), Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington), Ioana Burcea (University of Toronto), Anne Condon (University of British Columbia), Natalie Enright Jerger (University of Toronto), and Jodi Tims (Baldwin-Wallace College)

A common perception is that academic careers in computer science and engineering involve difficult tenure processes, isolation and personal life compromises. This panel emphasizes the positive aspects of academic careers in computer science and engineering, discussing strategies for achieving success on the tenure track while maintaining an active personal life. The goal of the panel is to encourage female researchers to consider academic careers.

Biographies:

Cecilia Aragon
Cecilia Aragon is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She currently directs the Scientific Collaboration and Creativity Lab at UW. She has published in the areas of computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, visualization, visual analytics, image processing, and astrophysics. In 2009, she won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. She earned her Ph.D. in CS from UC Berkeley in 2004 and is a founder of Latinas in Computing.

Magdalena Balazinska
Magdalena Balazinska is an Assistant Professor in the department of CSE at the University of Washington. Magdalena’s research interests are broadly in the fields of databases and distributed systems. Her current research focuses on data intensive scalable computing, sensor and scientific data management, and cloud computing. Magdalena holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006). She is a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007), received an NSF CAREER Award (2009), a 10-year most influential paper award (2010), an HP Labs Research Innovation Award (2009-2011), a Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006), and a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005).

Ioana Burcea
Ioana Burcea is a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto. Her main research interests span computer architecture, dynamic optimizations and hardware-software interaction. She obtained a BSc from Polytechnic University of Bucharest and a MASc from University of Toronto. She is the recipient of an NSERC Graduate Scholarship, an IBM PhD Fellowship and the Google Canada Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. During her graduate studies, Ioana spent several months doing internships with the research divisions of Intel and IBM. Ioana is an avid reader and her favorite bookstore is “The Strand” in downtown Manhattan.

Anne Condon
Anne Condon is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at U. British Columbia. She received her Bachelor’s degree (1982) from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. (1987) at the University of Washington. Anne’s research interests span algorithms, molecular structure prediction and biomolecular computation. Anne received a ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award, an NSF Young Investigator Award and Distinguished Alumna Awards from University College Cork and U. Washington’s CSE Department. She also received the Computing Research Association’s Habermann Award for her work in supporting members of underrepresented groups in the computing research community. Anne is an ACM Fellow.

Natalie Enright Jerger
Natalie Enright Jerger is an Assistant Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she received her MSEE and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and 2008 respectively. Her PhD research was supported by an IBM fellowship. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in 2002. Her research interests are in many-core architectures, on-chip networks and cache coherence. Her research is supported by NSERC, Intel, CFI, AMD and Qualcomm.

Jodi Tims
Dr. Jodi Tims is a Professor of CS at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH. She received her Ph.D. in CS from the University of Pittsburgh with an emphasis on programming languages and compilation for distributed memory parallel systems. She is currently serving as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and CS. In addition to her teaching and administrative responsibilities, she serves on numerous college-wide committees, serves on a regional IT advisory board, and is actively involved in projects related to mentoring of females in computing. She recently served as Program Chair for the 4rd Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing.

Moderator: Stormy Peters (Mozilla)
Panelists: Sarah Allen (Blazing Cloud), Lukas Blakk (Mozilla), and Mel Chua (Red Hat)

Abstract: Come learn how we have been teaching women new programming skills using open source tools taught by communities of volunteer peers. The women range in age from young girls to older women trying to re-enter the work force. Through nonprofit, community led classes and workshops they’ve learned programming skills effectively and quickly. We want to bring this possibility to all women.

Biographies:

Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters is Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. She joined Mozilla from the GNOME Foundation where she served as Executive Director. Previously, she worked at OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. Before that, she worked at Hewlett-Packard where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP’s open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.



Sarah Allen
Sarah Allen leads Blazing Cloud, a San Francisco consulting firm that specializes in developing leading-edge mobile and web applications. She is also co-founder and CTO of Mightyverse, a company focussed on the social use of language and cross cultural meaning. She is a founder and president of RailsBridge, which seeks to bridge the gap from aspiring developer to contributing community member, through mentoring, teaching, and writing. Through RailsBridge she has taught 12 workshops for women (and some men) and has led several projects teaching programming to kids.

Lukas Blakk
Lukas Blakk is build and release engineer at Mozilla. She is involved in many communities such as Buildbot, Python, OpenHatch, WebMadeMovies, and some adhoc open source education initiatives and she is always interested and willing to work on getting more women involved in open source as demonstrated by her work in Dare to be Digital and the upcoming PyStar program to teach Python to women which is using the RailsBridge model to try and improved the ratio of women in the Python community.

Mel Chua
Mel Chua is the Education Liason on Red Hat’s Community Leadership Team, responsible for outreach to universities. Previously she served on the board of Sugar Labs and headed the Fedora Marketing Team; before that, she was an engineer at the One Laptop Per Child Project. Mel will be an Engineering Education PhD student at Purdue University starting in Fall 2011; she received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in 2007 as part of the second-ever graduating class.

Is Browsing Internet on Your Mobile Phone Secure?: An Evaluation of Display Security in Mobile and Traditional Web Browsers

Presenter: Chaitrali Amrutkar (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Abstract: We present the first comprehensive study of display-related security issues in mobile browsers. We identify two new classes of display-related security problems in mobile browsers and present a range of real world attacks against them. Our analysis comprises of eight mobile and five desktop browsers including Android and iPhone Safari. We conclude that all candidate mobile browsers are vulnerable to new security problems that are not observed in desktop browsers.

Biography:

Chaitrali Amrutkar
Chaitrali Amrutkar is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on cellular/mobile security and web browser security. Her honors include the Google Anita Borg scholarship (finalist 2009), best IMS application prize at the ‘Innovative Convergence Applications’ competition at Georgia-Tech and 1st prize in ‘emerging rural technology’ category at Asia’s largest technical festival Techfest’06 at IIT Bombay, India. Her industry experience includes internships at AT&T research, IBM, Motorola and Qualcomm. She is the co-chair of women in computing organization at Georgia-Tech, where she endeavors to provide mentoring and networking opportunities to members.

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HTML5 and Mobile

Presenter: Matt Kelly (Facebook)

Abstract: HTML5 has been growing in popularity across the industry when building cross-platform mobile applications. This talk will explore some of the benefits and challenges encountered as we’ve worked with these technologies.

Biography:

Matt Kelly
Matt Kelly is an Engineer at Facebook where he works with developers to make the web more social. Building on the Facebook Platform since its inception, he joined the Platform team two years ago to collaborate with hundreds of companies including Spotify, Yelp, Pandora, CNN, and ESPN. He currently leads the HTML5 strategy for developers. Prior to joining Facebook, he was the lead Server Engineer at Large Animal Games and launched over a dozen games on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Twitter. He enjoys hacking on the side and recently won MTV’s “Best Hack” at the San Francisco Music Hack Day.

Presenter: Joy A. Buolamwini (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Abstract: Given the rise of mobile technology and advances in open source initiatives, many organizations are eager to develop mobile tools. The Carter Center is on a mission to eradicate Trachoma, and this summer two undergraduates developed software and piloted Android powered tablets in Ethiopia to help this cause. Come learn about the journey and discover how you too can contribute your skills to show compassion through computation.

Biography:

Joy A. Buolamwini
Joy Buolamwini is a 21 year old Computer Science major at the Georgia Institute of Technology, an entrepreneur, a humanitarian, and a motivational speaker. Not only is she a Stamps’ President’s Scholar, the highest merit based award given to only 5 out of state students in the university each year, but she was also named a 2010-11 and 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar, an honor bestowed annually on the top 22 students in STEM fields in the US. Her past research includes work on social robotics and autism as well as personal health informatics.

Panelists: Chloe Fan (Carnegie Mellon University), Catherine Grevet (Georgia Institute of Technology), Francine Lalooses (Tufts University), Meredith R. Morris (Microsoft Research), Lia Napolitano (Apple), Megan K. Strait (Tufts University), and Consuelo Valdes (Wellesley College)

Abstract: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary field that invites a diverse set of backgrounds and interests. As such, it attracts students from a broad array of disciplines with the common goal of exploring the human side of technology. In this panel, we expose a palette of academic research areas and industry roles in HCI in order to provide undergraduate students with an overview of the field.

Biographies:

Chloe Fan
Chloe Fan is a PhD student in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where works with Dr. Jodi Forlizzi. Her research focuses on personal informatics, specifically how self-tracking tools can adapt to users’ needs over time to maintain engagement in self-reporting. She is also interested in engagement with public displays. She received her B.A. in media arts and sciences and psychology from Wellesley College in 2009.

Catherine Grevet
Catherine Grevet is a PhD student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where she works with Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt of the Everyday Computing Lab. Her research focuses on the role of computer-mediated social influence in changing daily habits in the context of sustainability and wellness. She received her B.A. in computer science from Wellesley College where she worked on projects in environmental sustainability.

Francine Lalooses
Francine Lalooses is a full-time Senior Software Systems Engineer at The MITRE Corporation and part-time PhD student at Tufts University. Her research interests include Human-Centric Software Engineering and Brain-Computer Interaction for mediating moral dilemma in human-robot interaction. She is also a member of the local Human-Computer Interaction society of Boston (BostonCHI). Francine received her M.S. and Sc.B. with honors in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University.

Meredith Ringel Morris
Meredith Ringel Morris is a research scientist in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction group at Microsoft Research. She is also an affiliate assistant professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing. Dr. Morris was named one of 2008’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by Technology Review, and one of 2009’s 100 Notable Women in Seattle Technology by TechFlash. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University, and her Sc.B. in computer science from Brown University.

Lia Napolitano
Lia Napolitano is a User Experience Architect at Apple Inc., where she works to define the user experience of applications for iOS, Mac OSX, and the web. Her work is multidisciplinary, incorporating human-computer interaction, visual art, game design and psychology. She received her B.A. in media arts and sciences from Wellesley College, where she worked in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory to develop systems for reflection and socialization in museums through socio-mobile and tabletop computing.

Megan Strait
Megan Strait is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at Tufts University. She works with Dr. Robert Jacob on Brain-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction laboratory. Her research focuses on visually and behaviorally adaptive systems through brain-based interaction techniques to mediate cognitive workload. She received her B.A. in computer science from Wellesley College where she worked on tabletop interaction techniques for engagement and collaboration in science learning.

Consuelo Valdes
Consuelo Valdes is a Research Fellow at Wellesley College, where she works with Dr. Orit Shaer in the Human-Computer Interaction laboratory. Her research focuses on engagement and collaboration in learning through socio-mobile and tabletop computing, and has helped develop and deploy several applications for use in classroom and museum settings. She recently graduated with a B.A. in media arts and sciences from Wellesley in May 2011.

Panelists: Michelle Hutton (Stanford University), Tammy Pirmann (Springfield Township School District), Chris Stephenson (Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)), and Cameron Wilson (Association of Computing Machinery)

Abstract: ACM, CSTA, and other organizations have been working toward a vision of the future that includes quality computer science education for every student. Classroom teachers of computer science, a policy expert and an author of proposed national curriculum will discuss the impact of this vision, where we are now, and where we are going. The important role of the individual in realizing this vision will be revealed.

Biographies:

Michelle Hutton
Michelle Hutton taught eighth grade computer science, and was the chair of the computer science department, and the Director of Technology at The Girls’ Middle School (GMS) in Mountain View, CA. She created most of the computer science curriculum at GMS, including Python programming, robotics, user-centered web design, and animation, and has previously taught grades 6-8. Prior to working at GMS, she was a system administrator at Indiana University. She is currently at Stanford University.

Tammy Pirmann
Tammy Pirmann has been the President of CSTA-Philadelphia for the past three years. She is also the K-12 Coordinator for Computer Science and Business at the School District of Springfield Township in addition to being the Computer Science Teacher at the high school. She has been actively advocating computer science as a core subject and Springfield does have a computer science graduation requirement in place. She adopted the CSTA K-12 Curriculum several years ago and students at Springfield are now taught computer science K-9 as part of the core curriculum.

Chris Stephenson
Dr. Chris Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), a professional membership organization of 10,000 educators dedicated to improving K-12 computing education. She serves on the NCWIT Leadership Team and former chair of the ACM K-12 Task Force. She has served as president of the International Society for Technology in Education’s Special Interest Group for Computer Science and a founder of the Association for Computer Studies Educators in Canada. She has numerous research publications in the field of computer science education and has written several high school textbooks on computer science and computer engineering.

Cameron Wilson
Cameron Wilson, Director of Public Policy, ACM Cameron Wilson has lead the ACM Public Policy Office since 2005. In this role he focuses on technology policy, computing education, privacy and security issues related to computing among others. He develops, oversees and manages ACM’s public policy agenda and is the ACM’s representative to Washington D.C. and the media.

Panelists: Yina Arenas (Microsoft), Rosa Enciso (Microsoft), Mirkeya Capellan (Sogeti USA), Patricia Carlos (Microsoft), Luz Adriana Jaramillo (Carnegie Mellon University), and Jesica Lowell (BBN Technologies)

Abstract: This panel will discuss contrasts among industry jobs. The panel members work in industries such as Technology, Consulting, Services and Finance. They will describe the similarities, differences, challenges and dynamics of working on a particular field-where technology is or it is not the main line of business; and the need to acquire different sets of skills in order to effectively add value to the organization from their positions.

Biographies:

Yina Arenas
Yina joined Microsoft in the summer of 2010. Her team, SharePoint, is the fastest-growing product in the history of Microsoft; she works as a Program Manager in charge of isolation and security of third party code. She has a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia where she developed a role playing simulation software of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Her B.S. is in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where she worked as a Communications Engineer doing design, development and deployment of wireless networks.

Mirkeya Capellan
Dr. Mirkeya Capellán is a manager consultant at Sogeti USA and an adjunct professor at Pace University. She presently works as a Quality Assurance Test Engineer/Project Manager for Sogeti client Mercedes-Benz. Her research interests include agile software development, teaching methods, and testing techniques. Dr. Capellán has conducted workshops encouraging young women to pursue careers in technology. She is an active member of professional groups including: Latinas in Computing and SHPE. She is the mother of three children ages 7, 15, and 19. Dr. Capellán holds a BA, Computer Science; MS, Information Systems; and DPS, Doctorate of Professional Studies in Computing.

Patricia Carlos
Patricia is a Channel Manager in the Digital Supply Chain Business Operations team at Microsoft, focusing on all XBOX Live and Zune Subscriptions and Points. Patricia holds a degree in Information Systems Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering by Stanford University. She joined Microsoft after graduating from ITESM. She has held different positions in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain and Online Services Areas, all in the Interactive Entertainment Business division. She is a certified Project Management Professional and APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional.

Rosa Enciso
Rosa earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in December 2009. In February 2010, she joined Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer. Rosa is currently at the MSN Relevance team where she is working on developing algorithms to optimize the relevance of content shown to users at the MSN Portal. Rosa’s research interests are in the areas of algorithms, graph theory, and graph theoretical applications. She is originally from Cusco, Perú.

Luz Adriana Jaramillo
Luz Adriana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from EAFIT University (Colombia) and a Specialization degree in Information Systems Auditing from the same university. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). She is currently a Masters student at Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She worked for 8 years at Bancolombia Bank, where she was part of the IT Risk and Compliance team. She was also an IT Security Analyst designing security controls for banking products. During the summer of 2011, Luz was an intern at the IT Advisory Services team at Ernst & Young.

Jesica Lowell
Jessie is a Staff Scientist in the Information & Knowledge Technologies Department at Raytheon BBN Technologies, where she works on distributed systems, particularly developmental and morphogenetic robotics. Before that, she was a junior imaging scientist working on suicide bomber detection systems, and before that she was a junior scientist in sensor processing & machine learning, with both positions being at government contractors. She is also an MS student in Computer Science at Northeastern University, with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, and has a bachelor of science degree from MIT in Brain & Cognitive Science.

Staff Member and Senior Manager, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Abstract: Intensive care units (ICUs) in hospitals are data-rich environments. Numerous monitors are attached to each patient. Each of these devices spews a stream of numbers, indicating the status of the patient’s vital functions. What if, buried deep within these streams of data, one could detect important medical information about the patient? How would we find that information? Could we improve patient outcomes?

This talk will describe on-going work to analyze the streams of data spewing from such monitors to look for the early onset of various complications experienced by patients. I will focus on work done in collaboration with The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology to detect the early onset of nosocomial infection. I will also discuss some more recent work with Columbia University to detect the early onset of delayed cerebral iscemia in patients who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. Along the way, I will give an overview of stream computing, the challenges of analyzing this type of data and my experiences in doing research in a healthcare setting.

Biography:

Maria Ebling
Maria Ebling is a research staff member and senior manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center where she has worked since 1998. She manages a team building systems capable of supporting a Smarter Planet while not forgetting about the people who have to use them. Her research interests are in distributed systems supporting mobile and pervasive computing, privacy, and human-computer interaction.

Ebling was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the Seventh IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications in 2006, now known as HotMobile, and she now serves on the Steering Committee for this workshop. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Pervasive Computing. She has also served as the Guest Editor for two special issues of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine and for one issue of IEEE Wireless Communications.

Ebling received a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a senior member of both the ACM and IEEE.

Panelists: Tiffany Barnes (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Amy Briggs (Middlebury College), Jan Cuny (National Science Foundation), Dan Garcia (University of California, Berkeley), Jody Paul (Metropolitan State College of Denver), and Chris Stephenson (Computer Science Teacher’s Association (CSTA))

Abstract: The CS 10K Project is an ambitious project to transform high school computing curriculum and get that new curriculum taught in 10,000 schools by 10,000 well-prepared teachers by 2015. Panelists will discuss the development of the project centerpiece, a proposed new AP course called CS Principles, and outcomes of college-level pilots from academic year 2010-11, particularly with respect to the goal of attracting a larger, more diverse population of students.

Biographies:

Tiffany Barnes
Tiffany Barnes is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on educational data mining, developing and evaluating serious games, and broadening participation in computing. Dr. Barnes is co-PI of the STARS Alliance, a consortium that engages college students in outreach, research, and service. Dr. Barnes is Director of the Game2Learn Research project that engages students in developing and testing games to teach introductory computing. Dr. Barnes received an NSF CAREER Award to develop new technologies that leverage data to adapt STEM learning software to individual students.

Amy Briggs
Amy Briggs is a Professor of Computer Science at Middlebury College, where she teaches courses throughout the computer science undergraduate curriculum, and is co-director of the Middlebury Robotics and Vision Research Lab. Dr. Briggs is a member of the Liberal Arts Computing Consortium, a group of computer scientists dedicated to undergraduate computer science education and curriculum development. At the College Board she serves on the Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee and is co-chair of the AP Computer Science Commission, the group currently developing the CS Principles curriculum.

Jan Cuny
Jan Cuny is a program officer at the National Science Foundation, heading the CISE Directorate’s Education and Workforce Cluster, which focuses on Broadening Participation in Computing and Computing Education. Prior to joining NSF, she was a faculty member in the computer science departments of Purdue University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Oregon. Jan has been involved in gender issues in computing since 1992 and the CS 10K Project since its inception. In this panel, she will give an overview of the project.

Dan Garcia
Dan Garcia is Lecturer SOE in the Computer Science Division of the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the ACM Education Board, the AP Computer Science Principles Advisory Board, and co-directs BFOIT, a Berkeley outreach effort in Information Technology. He is currently mentoring over seventy undergraduates in groups working in computer graphics, Macintosh OS X programming, computational game theory, and computer science education. He will report on his most recent offering of the Berkeley version of the CS Principles course, called CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing.

Jody Paul
Jody Paul is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Metropolitan State College of Denver, the current Chief Reader for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (2008-2012), a member of the AP Computer Science Commission, and an instructor in the initial round of pilots of the CS Principles course (Fall 2010, “Living in a Computing World”). Prior to joining MSCD, he was on the faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver and UCLA, was a senior computer scientist for the RAND corporation, and managed the research and development of large-scale commercial software products. In this panel, he will identify key outcomes and describe salient experiences from the CS Principles pilot.

Chris Stephenson
Chris Stephenson is the executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). CSTA is a professional membership organization of more than 8200 members dedicated to supporting and improving K-12 computer science education.

Moderator: Kate Kelly (Microsoft)
Panelists: Nina Bhatti (HP), Wendy Castleman (Intuit), Celeste Fralick (Intel), Andrea Jessee (Microsoft), Radha Ratnaparkhi (IBM), and Mamie Rheingold (Google, Inc.)

Abstract: Innovation in technology is a business necessity for companies; many leverage research groups to drive their business forward. Without research groups, technologies like DB2, Gmail and Kinect, would take years longer to develop and bring to market. Most companies have R&D departments, but true Return on Investment can only be achieved if the ‘&’ between R and D is recognized as a crucial link connecting the academic and business-oriented worlds.

Biographies:

Kate Kelly
Kate is a Program Manager in Office Shared Services. Her team builds features and tools to ensure Office is ready for worldwide customers. Kate works with a broad range of partners across Microsoft on language features, especially the Microsoft Research team responsible for machine translation. After a complete 180, she joined Microsoft in 2008 following a short stint in the nuclear industry and a few Aerospace internships. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Waterloo in Electrical Engineering. Kate loves shoe shopping and recently took up scuba diving only to discover she is terrified of octopi.

Nina Bhatti
Bhatti is a technologist by training, an innovator by practice leading Mobile Imaging Applications Research team focused on new products, new markets, new consumer experiences and the transformation of technologies into commercial offerings. Bhatti has worked as in Intrapreneur within HP since 1996, delivering the design and creation of web, consumer, and lifestyle mobile technologies for some of HP’s largest customers. Bhatti has done extensive research in networking systems, quality of service and network application performance. Bhatti holds a Ph.D. and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Arizona, has published 45 papers and has 35 patents filed.

Wendy Castleman
Wendy has been a Principal XD Research Scientist at Intuit since 2003. Her role is to help the company to become a premier, innovative growth company through the application of design research, design thinking and customer-driven innovation. Prior to Intuit, she held research and design positions at Remedy, Certive, Motorola, Philips Consumer Communications and Lucent. She has a PhD in Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Wendy is currently living, learning and sharing in northern California.

Celeste Fralick
Celeste is Staff Architect/Principal Engineer for the Embedded Computing Division of Intel, insuring products are designed, interfaced, and implemented in digital signage, medical, government, and retail segments at the microprocessor and platform level. She has been a key technical leader in Intel’s biotech strategies, product qualification, and life cycle programs. Active in various industry boards, journal editorial staffs, and consortiums, her experience spans all facets of semiconductor development, regulatory, medical device, quality and reliability technology. She has a BS (Microbiology & Chemistry), MS (Bioengineering), and is completing her PhD (Bioengineering) at ASU.

Andrea Jessee
Andrea Jessee has spent 16 years in Research & Development. Graduating with degrees in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence, she started her career as a researcher at the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg, Germany. 4 years later, she was hired by Microsoft as a software developer producing the German grammar checker for Office XP. After 7.5 years and 3 shipping cycles, she joined Microsoft Research incubation to help with the successful release of a V1 web service, before joining a team of experienced Research Program Managers dedicated to the complex process of turning research into reality.

Radha Ratnaparkhi
Radha leads a global research team in the US, China and India creating new offerings around IT and Wireless Convergence. Previously, Radha was the Director of Commercial Systems, where she led the research initiative for Cloud Computing. Radha has also led commercialization efforts of WebFountain, a high-end text analytics solution and development for IBM’s flagship database DB2. Prior to IBM, Radha led the Java products development team at Informix Software. Radha’s career began in Mumbai with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s premier services consulting firm, after completing her Masters of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi.

Mamie Rheingold
Mamie Rheingold is a Program Manager on Google Labs, focusing on the innovation ecosystem throughout engineering. Google Labs is an external site for experimental products and a lightweight launch process for engineers to get their ideas out the door quickly. Mamie creates programs, tools and resources to inspire and enable every engineer to launch their wild new idea on Labs. Before joining Google in May 2006, she studied Urban Studies with a focus in Architecture and Urban Design at Stanford University. She loves improvisational theater and facilitates a class at Google called Improv Skills for Innovation.

Security Beyond PC
Presenter:John Kelly (Symantec)

Abstract: Today, we live in a “mobile” world. More consumers are buying smartphones, so more criminals are taking aim at those devices. This presentation presents the vulnerability of mobile devices, areas of attack on those devices, types of mobile threats, consequences of these attacks, solutions that can address these concerns, and finally, what you can do to protect yourself.

Biography:

John Kelly
John is currently a Senior Director at the Symantec Corporation, the world’s leading security and storage software company, where he leads the team that invents and delivers core technologies and services for mobile products. He has been in the technology business since the late 90’s, after some years teaching philosophy at the university level. He has been with Symantec since 2005. His roles have included management of the IP strategy, developing business and technology strategy for the entire product portfolio, developing acquisition plans, developing business plans for new investment, and leading research teams focused on disruptive technologies.

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Security Attacks, Countermeasures and Protecting Yourself Online!
Panelists: Valerie Fenwick (Oracle Corporation), Terri Oda (Carleton University), Radia Perlman (Intel), and Lindsey Wegrzyn (Adobe)

Abstract: We all spend a great deal of time on the Internet: reading email, tweeting, and interacting on social networks. Repeated research has shown, though, that even technically savvy people aren’t aware of many of the security and privacy implications of what they do online. We all know to keep our virus scanners up to date, but there is so much more we need to know about keeping ourselves safe online and protecting our reputations.

Biographies:

Valerie Fenwick
Valerie Anne Fenwick is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle Corporation with over a decade of experience in computer security. Valerie is currently working on the Solaris Cryptographic Framework, of which she was a designer and major contributor. She is the lead for the Oracle Solaris Change Request Team, responsible for making decisions as to what code changes are incorporated into the Operating System and Networking consolidation. She is co-author of Solaris 10 Security Essentials and writes a blog on bicycling, beer and security. In her spare time, she enjoys performing at community theaters, riding her bike, and skiing.

Terri Oda
Terri Oda hopes to one day make herself redundant by making security easier for everyone. Her PhD work involves lightweight web security policies, and her previous work includes stopping spam using a model of the human immune system. Terri’s research interests include computer security, adaptive systems, and usability. Outside of academia, she is part of the steering committee for GNU Mailman, writes for the Geek Feminism Blog and her own “Web Insecurity” blog, helps run Linuxchix, and recently made a huge pile of crocheted Angry Birds as an excuse to play games with more people in real life.

Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman is a Fellow and director of Network and Security Technology in Intel Labs. She is the inventor of many fundamental innovations in computer networking, including the spanning tree algorithm, the heart of today’s Ethernet; TRILL, a new standard for data center interconnection; scalable and robust link state routing technology; and security contributions including strong password protocols, authentication and authorization models, assured delete of data, and denial of service protection techniques. Perlman is the author of the networking text “Interconnections”, and coauthor of “Network Security”. She has a PhD from MIT in computer science.

Lindsey Wegrzyn
Lindsey Wegrzyn is a senior product manager for privacy at Adobe. As a member of the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET), Wegrzyn works with Adobe’s Chief Privacy Officer to define and deliver Adobe’s product privacy strategy for a highly specialized cross-business unit engineering team focused on product and customer data privacy. Prior to joining Adobe, Wegrzyn was legal director, global security at Yahoo! Inc., where she drove Yahoo!’s worldwide legal security policy development. Wegrzyn holds a JD from the Baylor School of Law and a BS in secondary education from Northwestern University. She is a member of the bar in Georgia and Florida.

Panelists: Bouchra Bouqata (GE Global Research Center), Zeynep Deniz (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Kaoutar El-Maghraoui (IBM Research), Houda Lamehamedi (l’Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR)) and Lamia M. Youseff (MIT)

Abstract: Today we live in a world bombarded with a plethora of information, data, images, and conversations. Recently, women begun to be at the helm of the exploding world of content creation, cultural production brought about by a multitude of new Internet technologies. So how can we harness these powerful Internet social tools to bring more girls to science and technology, and to encourage more women to pursue technical and scientific careers?

Biographies:

Bouchra Bouqata
Dr. Bouchra Bouqata is lead scientist at GE Research Center in Niskayuna NY. Bouchra has been leading GE’s efforts on general autonomous intelligent distributed decision making systems of mobile entity networks, with emphasis on human-brain inspired learning, perception, reasoning and memory. She received her PhD in computer science in machine learning from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and a Masters degree in Aritificial Intelligence in 1999 from Al-Akhawayn Univrsirty, Morcco. Her research interests are crowd sourcing, social networks and distributed intelligent systems. She is an active member of AAAI, IEEE computer society, GE’s Women’s Network and Society of Women Engineers.

Zeynep Deniz
Zeynep Deniz is a research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. Her research interests include design of mixed-signal CMOS circuits for high-speed data communications, low power-high speed analog-to-digital converters, voltage regulators and energy optimization circuits based on the basics of analog computation. She received her B.S. degree from Istanbul Technical University, her M.S from Sabanci University and her Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1999, 2001 and 2006 respectively, all in electrical engineering. She is an active member of IEEE Solid State Circuits society, IBM Watson’s Women’s and New Hire Networks.

Kaoutar El-Maghraoui
Dr. Kaoutar El-Maghraoui is a researcher at the IBM Research Center in Yorktown-Heights, NY. Her primary research interests are operating systems, high-performance computing, and distributed systems. Kaoutar has co-authored conference/journal publications in distributed systems and high performance computing. She obtained a PhD in Computer Science in 2007 from RPI, a Masters degree in Computer Networks in 2001 from Al-Akhawayn University, Morocco. Kaoutar has received several fellowships and awards including American Association of University Women fellowship and Robert McNaughton Award for best thesis in computer science at RPI. She is a member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM and IBM Watson’s Women’s Network.

Houda Lamehamedi
Dr. Houda Lamehamedi, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, and Fulbright Scholar, is an Assistant Professor in computer science at l’Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR). She received her Ph.D in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2005. Houda joined Oracle as a Research Scientist in 2006. She was a member of the Oracle WorkLoad Management and the Oracle Virtualization Assembly Builder teams. She joined l’UIR in August 2011. Her research interests include cloud computing, distributed high performance computing, and service oriented architectures. Houda is very interested in science education for underprivileged youth.

Lamia Youseff
Lamia M. Youseff is currently a research/software engineer at Google, working on cloud computing. Previously, Lamia was a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Anant Agarwal’s Group at CSAIL, MIT after receiving her doctoral degree in Computer Science from UCSB with Professor Rich Wolski. Her general research interests include virtualization for scientific and HPC applications as well as cloud computing. Lamia is originally from Egypt, where she received her B.Sc. from the American University in Cairo. She has also received several awards, including the international ACM-UPE’02, the AUC presidential cup’03, XHPC best paper award’06 and IPDPS best poster award’08.

Moderator: Lilia Paradis (Microsoft)
Panelists: Jocelyn Goldfein (Facebook), Denise Hale (HP), Nandini Kappiah (Google, Inc.), Judy Kruntorad (CA Technologies), Tara Roth (Microsoft), and Krithika Swaminathan (Intuit)

Abstract: The way products are built in the software industry is very different from what we learn in school. Different companies vary a lot in the way they approach software engineering process. There is the waterfall approach, the agile methodology and the whole range in-between. Some processes are more appropriate for certain projects. This panel invites engineering leaders in the software industry to discuss different processes employed for making software products.

Biographies:

Lilia Paradis
Lilia Paradis has been with Microsoft for four years during which she worked on the SharePoint and Live Labs teams prior to her current role with the Windows Phone team. Her current job entails planning and executing testing for the phone developer platform. Lilia is passionate about delivering rich and performant experience to end users and developers alike. Lilia holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines. In her spare time she enjoys training for and participating in triathlons and marathons.

Jocelyn Goldfein
Jocelyn Goldfein is a Director of Engineering at Facebook, where she helps manage the engineering team and oversees new product design and architecture. Presently she is focused on Facebook News Feed and Facebook Search. Prior to joining Facebook, Jocelyn was Vice President of R&D at VMware, where she ran the engineering and product teams for VMware’s desktop products. She previously was Director of Engineering at e-mail management start-up MessageOne. Jocelyn holds a bachelors degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Denise Hale
Denise Hale is a software solutions engineer for Hewlett Packard. She’s worked in the Enterprise Servers and Storage division where she’s transitioning a virtual team spanning multiple sites and countries to Agile. In HP’s core software lab, she designed and developed software components for HP’s printing and imaging platforms. Before joining Hewlett Packard, she was a Member of Technical Staff with Konica-Minolta’s printer division where she led a small development team which followed a process similar to Agile. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of South Alabama.

Nandini Kappiah
Nandini Kappiah is a technical lead of the spam and abuse team at Google. She and her colleagues work on keeping Google products such as Blogger, Writely, Picasa, comments on maps, blogs, forums among others, free of spam by using various innovative techniques to stay one step ahead of the bad guys. She received a Master’s in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 2005 and has worked at Google since. She lives with her husband in Los Gatos, California.

Judy Kruntorad
Judy Kruntorad, VP, Quality Assurance, at CA Technologies is responsible for engineering Process and Quality for many of CA’s top mainframe products. Previously, Judy served as VP, Software Engineering, and was responsible for development, support, and QA for the CA IDMS product line for 20 years. During this time, she managed the development and delivery of nine major new releases of the CA IDMS database management product family consisting of forty products. Judy has 38 years of experience in the software industry and has a Master’s in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Tara Roth
Tara Roth is corporate vice president of Testing and Operations for the Office Group. Roth is responsible for test teams, test engineering, and operations. Roth has additional responsibility as lead of the Microsoft Test Leadership Team. She joined Microsoft in 1992 for the Microsoft Project team. Before moving to the Office Shared team, she was the Test Manager for SharePoint. Roth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She spends free time with her husband and two children and enjoys boating on the beautiful Pacific Northwest waters.

Krithika Swaminathan
Krithika has a Master’s in Computer Science and over 20 years of experience running global teams including USA, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta. Her primary focus has been on customer support and quality engineering with special emphasis on building in quality vs. testing later. Krtithika is a results-driven leader who effectively combines both business and technical talents to implement innovative solutions. She has created value by developing effective QA / testing solutions, spearheading winning global teams, establishing new systems, cultivating productive business relationships, and employing a unique blend of innovation with technology.

Moderator: Jamika Burge (Information Systems Worldwide Corporation)
Panelists: Lizdabel Morales-Tirado (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), Yolanda A. Rankin (IBM Research Almaden), and Nayda G. Santiago (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)

Abstract: This panel provides an opportunity for Women of Color to share their experiences in the computing industry. This year, the focus is on the experiences of successful African-American and Latina women . They will share informal strategies that have benefited them in their professional growth. The panel is organized by the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS.

Biographies:

Jamika Burge
Jamika Burge, Ph.D. is a Senior Behavioral Computer Scientist at Information Systems Worldwide Corporation in Washington, D.C. where she conducts qualitative/behavioral research design and analysis, interviews, focus groups, and survey development and administration. She was a Post-doc at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) where she worked with John Carroll. She has received numerous recognitions, including an IBM PhD Fellow & Fellowship Award (2005-2006) and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship among others. Jamika completed her Ph.D. in CS at Virginia Tech, an MS at North Carolina A&T State University, and a B.S. at Fisk University.

Yolanda A. Rankin
Yolanda A. Rankin, Ph.D. is Research Scientist at IBM Research Almaden in San Jose, CA. Yolanda has accumulated more than eight years experience in industry as a software engineer at Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs and as a senior program manager at Luxcore Networks. She has received numerous honors and awards, including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Northwestern University Graduate School Fellowship, Alliance of Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Scholarship among others. Yolanda completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Northwestern University, a M.A. in CS at Kent State University and her B.S. in Mathematics at Tougaloo College.

Nayda G. Santiago
Nayda G. Santiago, Ph.D. received a B.S.E.E. from University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM), an M.Eng.E.E. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. She is an Associate Professor at the ECE Department at UPRM. Nayda was recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Professor of ECE Award, 2008 Distinguished Computer Engineer of the PR Society of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, 2008 HENAAC Education Award, the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award of the UPRM,, among others. She is a member of SANCAS, Latinas in Computing, IEEE, ACM, and a founding member of CAHSI and Femprof.

Lizdabel Morales-Tirado
Lizdabel Morales-Tirado, Ph.D. received her B.S. from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (UPRM), an M.S. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech all in Electrical Engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor in ECE at UPRM. She conducts research in wireless communications, cognitive radio and cognitive networks, and leads the Intelligent Wireless and Networked Communications Laboratory. Dr. Morales is a GEM Fellow, a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Fellow and a John Lee Pratt Fellow. She is also co-founder of Divergent Engineering Inc.. She has worked for Lucent Technologies (1999-2001) and Motorola (1995-1999).

Panelists: Brenda Britsch (National Girls Collaborative Project), Jill Denner (ETR Associates), and Karen Peterson (EdLab Group)

Abstract: To succeed in the 21st Century workplace, employees must not only be competent in technical skills and content expertise, but also need to possess “soft skills” such as communication and collaboration. The power of collaboration helps organizations and individuals become more effective in achieving their goals. Presenters will provide strategies and tools for creating successful collaborative relationships that will strengthen your capacity and broaden the reach of your organization.

Biographies:

Karen Peterson
Karen A. Peterson, M.Ed. is the Chief Executive Officer for the EdLab Group. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator for the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP), SciGirls, Build IT Underwater Robotics Scale Up for STEM Learning and Workforce Development, the Computer Science Collaboration Project, and Bio-ITEST: New Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, all of which are funded by the National Science Foundation. These projects address gender, racial and socioeconomic underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Peterson serves on local, regional and national boards which develop and administer programs designed to increase underrepresented students’ interests in STEM.

Brenda Britsch
Dr. Brenda Britsch is the CO-PI for the NGCP and the Computer Science Collaboration Project. In these roles, Dr. Britsch is responsible for dissemination of research-based strategies, development of professional development, and liaises with project evaluators and content partners. She has published in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering and serves on the Advisory Board for the ISE-funded project, Inquiry in the Community: Building Science Capacity in Science Leaders. Her prior work focuses on research, evaluation and program development for community-based organizations and educational institutions, with particular focus on informal learning and gender equity.

Jill Denner
Jill Denner is Associate Director of Research at Education, Training, Research Associates. She does applied research, with a focus on increasing the number of women and Hispanics in computing. She has developed several after school programs and her research on these programs has contributed to an understanding of effective strategies for promoting youth leadership, building youth-adult partnerships, increasing students’ confidence and capacity to produce technology, and engaging girls and Hispanics in information technology. As part of a long-standing commitment to bridge research and practice, her research is designed and conducted in collaboration with schools and community-based agencies.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

Abstract:The ability to capture and store more and more personal information about our everyday lives has led some visionaries to propose that one day digital technologies will provide us all with a “prosthetic memory”. Any document we have ever looked at, Web site we have visited, email we have sent, or message we have posted will be recorded. In addition, new digital devices will also capture our activities in the physical world, including images, sounds, location data and perhaps even biosensor data. If this is true, how will we look back on our personal past in the future? And what will be the fate of these vast archives for future generations? In this talk, I will examine some of these issues, and propose new ways in which we might view these “memory technologies”. I will also show how a broader perspective on what these systems might do for us opens up an interesting new design space that helps us be more creative, reflective, and expressive with our personal archives.

Biography:

Abigail Sellen
Abigail Sellen is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge UK and co-manager of Socio-Digital Systems, an interdisciplinary group with a focus on the human perspective in computing. As a group, Socio-Digital Systems is interested in learning from everyday life to inform the design of systems which are both useful and compelling.

Abigail’s first degree was in Psychology, followed by an M.A.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and a doctorate in Cognitive Science. Since then, her career has spanned a number of industrial research labs including Apple Computer, Xerox’s Cambridge Research Centre and Hewlett Packard, Bristol. She has published widely in Human-Computer Interaction, covering topics such as input devices, reading, paper use in offices, Web use, videoconferencing design, and mobile systems. Her books include “The Myth of the Paperless Office”, co-authored with Richard Harper, which won an IEEE award. She has filed more than 50 patents, is an Associate Editor for Communications of the ACM, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. In August, 2009, she became a Special Professor of Interaction at the University of Nottingham, and in 2011, was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy. Outside of the office, she has three kids making sure life is never dull.

Lessons Learned from the All Female Classroom, and How to Translate Into the Coed Environment
Panelists: Catherine Grevet (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sohie Lee (Wellesley College), Lia Napolitano (Apple), Orit Shaer (Wellesley College), Megan Strait (Tufts University), Dianna Xu (Bryn Mawr College), and Susan Wang (Mills College)

Abstract:Women’s colleges correspond to a minority of undergraduate institutions, but produce a disproportionate number of female leaders in areas where women are underrepresented. This panel addresses the question: what can be learned from the success of women’s colleges in empowering female students in computer science? In this panel, students and faculty will present their experiences with engagement through introductory coursework, computing culture, and development of professional networks at women’s colleges.

Biographies:

Catherine Grevet
Catherine is a doctoral candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She serves as co-organizer of Georgia Tech Women @ CC. Previously she served as student mentor in the Human- Computer Interaction Laboratory and in the Department of Admissions at Wellesley College, where she received her bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2009.

Sohie Lee
Sohie Lee has been an Instructor of Computer Science at Wellesley College since 2000. She is active in recruiting and encouraging student participation in regional computing conferences, and in organizing departmental features of student work. She received her master’s degree in computer science at Stanford University where she was active in the local chapter of CRA-W: Women in Computer Science at Stanford, and her doctorate degree in cognitive science at UCSD.

Lia Napolitano
Lia Napolitano is a User Experience Architect at Apple Inc., where she works to define the user experience of applications for iOS, Mac OSX, and the web. Her work is multidisciplinary, incorporating human-computer interaction, visual art, game design and psychology. She received her B.A. in media arts and sciences from Wellesley College, where she worked in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory to develop systems for reflection and socialization in museums through socio-mobile and tabletop computing.

Orit Shaer
Orit Shaer is the Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Media Arts and Science program at Wellesley College since 2008. She received her master’s and doctorate degrees in computer science from Tufts University. She is committed to advancing women in computing serving as a panelist on the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing program, as a program chair of the Seattle chapter of the Alliance of Technology and Women, and as a founding member of Boston CHI Labs organization.

Megan Strait
Megan is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University, where she was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship for academic excellence. She is an active member of the Tufts’ local CRA-W chapter: Women in Computer Science (WICS). She is also active in the Wellesley College Alumnae Association hosting and informing prospective students about research and academic opportunities in computer science. She received her B.A. in computer science from Wellesley College in 2010.

Dianna Xu
Diana is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College. She received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from the all- women’s college, Smith College, and her M.S.E. and PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Wang
Susan is the chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Director of the Interdisciplinary Computer Science Master’s program, and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College. She received her B.S. in computer science and mathematics at MIT in 1983, and her master’s and doctorate degrees in computer science from Princeton University in 1985 and 1989.

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Bridging the Gender Gap: Lessons from the Liberal Arts
Moderator: Erica Greene (University of Southern California)
Panelists: Kim Bruce (Pomona College), Renée McCauley (College of Charleston), and Eric Roberts (Stanford University)

Abstract:We will explore how pedagogy affects the participation and success of women in computer science. The discussion will focus on finding the right balance between emphasizing “marketable skills” and the theoretical foundations of the field. Computer science departments in liberal arts programs have had to think deeply about these curricular decisions, which has led to fascinating research on how pedagogy influences the participation of students in the field.

Biographies:

Erica Greene
Erica Greene is a second year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Southern California, specializing in machine learning. She graduated from Haverford College in May 2010 with a major in math. Erica founded the Women in Science group at Haverford, a group that ran extracurricular introductory programming courses, organized a peer-mentoring program and founded a women’s lounge in the science building. She recently started a similar group for female graduate students in computer science at USC. Erica became interested in computer science education after attending SIGCSE in 2008.

Kim Bruce
Kim Bruce is a Professor in the Computer Science at Pomona College. He previously founded the CS department at Williams College and taught there for 28 years. He has a long-standing interest in Computer Science education at small, high-quality liberal arts colleges. He has contributed to each of the three model curricula for liberal arts colleges developed by the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium and was a member of the joint ACM-IEEE Computer Science Joint Curriculum Task Force. In recognition of his work in CS education, he was given the ACM SIGCSE award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.

Catherine Grevet
student Catherine Grevet is a second year Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction. She recently graduated from Wellesley College, a private women’s liberal arts college located in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Catherine is interested in computer science pedagogy and curricular development, particularly in liberal arts settings. At Wellesley she served as a teaching assistant and tutor through the Department of Computer Science. She has attended previous Grace Hopper Celebrations, participated in the Google Workshop for Women Engineers, and attended the CRA-Women graduate cohort.

Renée McCauley
Renée McCauley is a professor of Computer Science at the College of Charleston, a public liberal arts and sciences university in Charleston, South Carolina. She is currently the director of the M.S. program in Computer and Information Sciences. This year she is serving as the chair the Executive Board of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). She has recently been involved in the development of a new interdisciplinary B.A. degree in Computing in the Arts at the College of Charleston. The program is designed to attract a broader population of majors than traditional computer science programs.

Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is a professor of Computer Science and the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He previously taught at Wellesley College, where he chaired the CS Department. Professor Roberts was Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Computer Science at Stanford for over a decade. He was the principal architect of Stanford’s introductory programming sequence, which for many years held the distinction of being the largest course at Stanford. He has also written four computer science textbooks and conducts research on computer science education, particularly for underserved communities.

Presenters: Leslie Hawthorn (Oregon State University Open Source Lab) and Amye Scavarda (Acquia)

Abstract: Workplace success requires more than expertise and diligent work. Achieving career success requires balancing many needs: those of your organization, team, management and your own satisfaction. In this talk, Amye and Leslie will explore seven essential skills that ensure that you can balance those needs effectively while continuing to excel in your technical career: negotiation, communication, setting boundaries, networking, information discovery, navigating social structures & using unproductive times to your advantage.

Biographies:

Leslie Hawthorn
Leslie Hawthorn brings over 10 years experience in high tech project management, marketing and public relations to her role as Open Source Outreach Manager for Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab. Previously, she worked as a Program Manager for Google, where she was responsible for the company’s outreach efforts, including creating the world’s first program to get pre-university students involved in open source, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (now Google Code-In) and managing its university focused counterpart, the Google Summer of Code program. You can find her online on Twitter (@lhawthorn) or read her blog at http://hawthornlandings.org

Amye Scavarda
Amye Scavarda’s first computer was an Apple IIe in 1990, which entered her home when she was 5. She’s been involved in open source software communities since 2008. Amye participates heavily in the open source Drupal project as a project manager, Google Code In volunteer and conference organizer. She now works for Acquia in a strategic development role as a project manager in support. Amye received a History degree from Lewis & Clark College in 2007, and can be found online on Twitter (@msamye) or on her own personal blog at http://msamye.com.

Presenters: Natalie Freed, Emily Lovell, and Jie Qi (All panelits are from MIT Media Lab)

Abstract: In this hands-on workshop, we will provide an opportunity for participants to apply their technical knowledge to the creative domain of electronic textiles. E-textiles are circuits that combine soft conductive materials with standard electronics components. This workshop will introduce basic circuits and hardware programming as well as specific e-textile techniques and materials. Participants can leverage previous programming experience – and even crafting experience – as they create personalized electronics projects.

Biographies:

Natalie Freed
Natalie earned her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Arts, Media, and Engineering from Arizona State University. Her research is centered on creating technology for children that leaves room for redefinition. She is particularly fascinated by the characters and worlds children create together in real time when they engage in imaginative play. In the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab, Natalie is researching interactive robotic characters for creative second language learning. She has helped facilitate several summer e-textiles workshops at UC Berkeley?s CNMAT, and has consulted in electronics prototyping.

Emily Lovell
Emily Lovell holds a B.A. in Computer Science with a minor in Electronic Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a certificate in Graphic Design from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. Emily?s research is currently focused on creating e-textile support materials for educators, with an interest in developing technological self-efficacy. She has also helped design and develop LilyPond, an online e-textile community. In conjunction with her research with the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab, Emily has organized and facilitated several e-textile workshops leveraging the LilyPad Arduino toolkit and similar technologies.

Jie Qi
Jie holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and experience in electronics design and fabrication at Eyebeam Art and Technology center. Her current research investigates materials, techniques and processes to blending electronics and computation with paper craft. She is also interested in examining the role of handcrafting and personalization in creating modern technology. Ultimately, she aims to apply this knowledge to enable everyone to create their own expressive electronics. As part of her current work with the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, she has facilitated numerous electronic crafts workshops.

Moderator: Beryl Nelson (Google, Inc.)
Panelists: Mark Bregman (Neustar), Alan Eustace (Google, Inc.), Kathy Hill (Cisco), Mike Shroepfer (Facebook), Caroline Simard (Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology), and Tayloe Stansbury (Intuit)

Abstract: The goal of this session is to heighten the awareness of the relationship between diversity and innovation at the team and organizational levels. The panel will not only present quantitative data on the relationship between diversity and innovation, but engage executives at the highest levels of the technical ladder to articulate concrete examples of how diversity has benefited technological innovation in their companies.

Biographies:

Beryl Nelson
Beryl Nelson joined Google in Hyderabad, India, in 2009, and since spring of 2011 works in Google’s websearch team in Kraków, Poland. She lived in Asia for 15 years, 6 of those in India, and worked at a number of companies in Hyderabad. Prior to India, she lived in Tokyo, where she took several years off to raise children before joining Epos Japan. Early in her career, she worked in functional languages and compilers in the US. Beryl has designed and co-presented diversity sessions at Grace Hopper India, at the ACM India conference 2011, and internally within Google.

Mark Bregman
Mark Bregman is CTO of Neustar. Previously, he was executive vice president and chief technology officer at Symantec, responsible for the company’s technology strategy. Bregman joined Symantec through the company’s merger with Veritas Software, where he served as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Veritas, Bregman was CEO of Airmedia, a wireless Internet firm. Previously, Bregman was at IBM where he held senior management positions. Bregman holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard and a master’s and doctorate in physics from Columbia University. He serves on the boards of BASIC, ShoreTel, and the Anita Borg Institute.

Alan Eustace
Alan Eustace is one of Google’s senior vice presidents of engineering. He joined Google in the summer of 2002. Prior to Google, Alan spent 15 years at Digital/Compaq/HP’s Western Research Laboratory where he worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects. Alan was promoted to director of the Western Research Laboratory in 1999. Alan is an author of several publications and holds numerous patents. He earned a bachelor‘s degree, a master‘s degree and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida.

Kathy Hill
Kathy Hill brings more than 30 years of product development and management experience to her position as Senior Vice President for the Office of the Chief Operating Officer, responsible for improving critical product operations components of Engineering and Customer Value Chain Management to optimize shareholder value. Prior to her current role, she was Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, and previously was Senior Vice President of the Access Networking & Services Group, and Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Desktop Switching Business Unit. Prior to joining Cisco, Hill was Vice President at Ascend. Hill is a Board of Trustees Member of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Mike Shroepfer
Mike Schroepfer is the Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, leading the engineers who write the code used by hundreds of millions of people each day. Before Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global and open product development process behind Firefox. Mike was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at various start-ups including a digital effects software startup, building software used in several major motion pictures. Mike holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Caroline Simard
Caroline Simard leads the Anita Borg Institute’s (ABI) research and executive program initiatives. Her research on the barriers facing women in technology has received national attention. She is also spearheading knowledge diffusion efforts and executive engagement programs directed at supporting organizational change for greater retention and advancement of technical women. Prior to ABI, Simard was a Researcher at the Center for Social Innovation of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Caroline holds a PhD in communication studies from Stanford University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Université de Montréal and a Masters degree in Communication and Information Studies from Rutgers University.

Tayloe Stansbury
H. Tayloe Stansbury is senior vice president & chief technology officer of Intuit. He has more than 27 years of experience in the software industry, most recently as chief information officer of VMware. Previously, Tayloe was executive vice president of Ariba, where he led engineering, product management, hosting, IT and customer support. Before that, Tayloe held executive engineering and general management roles at Calico Commerce and Xerox. Earlier, he worked on developer tools at Borland International and Sun Microsystems, and did research in computational linguistics at Xerox PARC. Tayloe graduated with honors in math and computer science from Harvard University.

Presenter: Lilia Gutnik (Microsoft)

Abstract: What if you were the next brilliant engineer presenting at TED, the voice of the Next Big Thing?

Becoming a brilliant engineer is about more than doing great research; you have to present your ideas well also. How?

Giving a technical presentation is not just imagining the audience members in their underwear. Learn how to create and deliver compelling presentations for industry audiences. Yeah, I’m talking about talking!

Biography:

Lilia Gutnik
As a child I wanted to be a stand-up comedian, but I was too good at math, too fond of buying new shoes, and not funny enough to justify that type of career. My current path as a program manager is the culmination of the many other jobs I’ve had; including polishing silverware, selling phones, copy-editing, managing a rock concert venue, and interning at a research lab. In all of these jobs, the ability to communicate ideas effectively has been crucial to my success. All but the silverware job, that was terrible.

Presenter:Jill Denner (ETR Associates) and Linda Werner (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Abstract: Community colleges have higher numbers of women in computer science than 4-year institutions, but little is known about why so few transfer. This presentation describes findings from a survey of 191 female and 546 male students enrolled in an introductory computer programming class at one of 13 community colleges in California. The results provide preliminary support for three widely held beliefs about why women do not pursue computing-related majors.

Biographies:

Jill Denner
Jill Denner is Associate Director of Research at Education, Training, Research (ETR) Associates, a non-profit organization in California. She does applied research, with a focus on increasing the number of women and Latinos in computing. She has developed several after school programs and her research on these programs has contributed to an understanding of effective strategies for engaging girls and Latinos in information technology. Dr. Denner has been PI on several NSF grants, written numerous peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited two books. Dr. Denner has a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Linda Werner
Linda Werner has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCSD and was the PI on an NSF-funded project on pair programming. This work was important for the recognition of pair programming as a best practice by NCWIT. Dr. Werner has extensive experience as an educator and researcher at UCSC, community college, high school, and junior high levels. She is actively involved in working to increase the numbers of female computer science students. In addition, she has many years of experience as a software engineer.

The inaugural A. Richard Newton Educator Award recognizes teaching practices, techniques or innovative and new education approaches that attract girls and women to math, computing, and engineering. The award recognizes the educators and the practices of K12 or undergraduate education. The award carries a $5,000 prize and will be presented at the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing in Portland, Oregon on November 11, 2011.

Award Winner: Lisa Pruitt (University of California, Berkeley)

Through the Eyes of Our Children
Abstract: In my engineering courses, I ask students to develop interactive engineering exhibits in collaboration with our children’s museum that addresses the learning spectrum of children. Service learning develops professional skills in our young engineers while the K-12 learners are exposed to engineering. This works seeks to develop a love of life-long learning in children and a sense that the world can be a better place with their contributions to technology.

Biography:
Lisa Pruitt
Lisa Pruitt received her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 1998. In 1993, Dr. Pruitt received her Ph.D. in engineering from Brown University in 1993. She then joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. She is renowned for her work in orthopedic biomaterials, medical devices, and mechanical assessment of structural tissues. She recently co-authored a textbook entitled “Mechanics of Biomaterials: Fundamental Principles for Implant Design.” Dr. Pruitt is an advocate of engineering education and outreach through research experiences. Her research in biomaterials has served as the foundation for outreach education, service learning and mentoring activities.

In 2006 Professor Pruitt organized the first National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) on the Berkeley campus and remains the campus liaison for this nationally recognized program targeted at high school students interested in engineering. Professor Pruitt is the faculty advisor for the Engineering for Kids day at UC Berkeley, which brings in nearly 300 children to the campus for an annual daylong event of engineering activities with Berkeley undergraduates enrolled in the College of Engineering. For more than a decade she has worked closely with the Lawrence Hall of Science to develop interactive exhibits including The Human Body Shop, BodyBuilders, and Body by Design within the framework of her engineering courses that are targeted to the K-12 sector. She has received numerous awards for her mentoring and engineering education activities including the UC Berkeley Presidential Chairs Teaching Fellowship (2010), Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors (2009), Lawrence Talbot Chaired Professorship in Engineering (2007), U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (2004), American Association for the Advancement of Science Mentoring Award, and Engineering Excellence and Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, awarded by the University of Rhode Island (1999).

Panelists: Carol Eidt (MIcrosoft), Jamie Erbes (HP), Kelin Kuhn (Intel), Joanne Martin (IBM), and Radia Perlman (Intel)

Abstract: The objective of the panel is to provide an overview of different career paths that led to Fellow at a variety of leading technology companies. The panel will highlight that there is not a single path; conversely it will show that there are shared traits that are important to achieving this career goal. Common traits will be explored, including: intelligence, tenacity, vision, and the ability to influence thought leadership.

Biographies:

Carol Eidt
Carol Thompson Eidt is an architect on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in Microsoft, continuing a lifetime passion for code transformation and performance. She joined Microsoft in November 2005, after 22 years at HP, where she was the first female Fellow in the company. Her career has encompassed compiler optimization, code generation, instruction set architecture, dynamic translation, and systems management software. She was on the design team for both the PA-RISC and Itanium architectures, designed and developed compiler optimization for both processor families, and has participated in the standardization of both C# and CLI.

Jamie Erbes
Jamie Erbes has more than 20 years of leadership, innovation and influence in networks, data centers and workflow automation. As an HP Fellow and director of Services Research in HP Labs, she is responsible for research and development of operating models, process automation and operations research to help HP and its customers make the most of a future where we see “Everything as a Service.” Previously, Erbes was CTO for HP Software business, supporting the company-wide software strategy for IT management software. Erbes holds a computer science degree from East Central University in Oklahoma.

Kelin Kuhn
Dr. Kelin J. Kuhn is an Intel Fellow in the Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Advanced Device Technology. In this role, she is responsible for device architecture path finding for Intel’s advanced process technologies. Dr. Kuhn joined Intel in 1997 working on Intel’s 0.35 micron process technology. Since then, she has been involved in Intel’s manufacturing process technology development for the 0.35 micron, 130nm, 90nm, 45nm and 22nm technology nodes. Previously, she was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Kuhn is an IEEE Fellow, the past recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award for her work on strained layer III-V materials and two Intel IAA awards, one for her work on Hi-K metal gate transistors and one for her work on the 22nm device architecture. She is the author of more than 80 technical papers in electronic and photonics, and has also authored a textbook on laser engineering. Dr. Kuhn earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1980. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985.

Joanne Martin
Joanne is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Corporate Technology at IBM. She is responsible for the development of IBM’s technical strategy and for the vitality of the global technical community. She is Past-President of the IBM Academy of Technology and has held a variety of technical and executive roles since joining IBM Research in 1984 and was named by Working Mother magazine as one of the 25 most influential working mothers for 1998. Joanne earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981, and began her research career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman joined Intel Labs, as a Fellow, in 2010. She is the inventor of many innovations in computer networking, especially in the area of network routing and security protocols. She has authored two widely used networking textbooks, and holds about 100 patents. She has been recognized with numerous industry awards including an honorary doctorate from KTH, the SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award, the Usenix Association lifetime achievement award, and the Women of Vision Award for Innovation. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.

Panelists: Natalie Freed, Emily Lovell, and Jie Qi (All panelits are from MIT Media Lab)

Abstract: In this hands-on workshop, we will provide an opportunity for participants to apply their technical knowledge to the creative domain of electronic textiles. E-textiles are circuits that combine soft conductive materials with standard electronics components. This workshop will introduce basic circuits and hardware programming as well as specific e-textile techniques and materials. Participants can leverage previous programming experience – and even crafting experience – as they create personalized electronics projects.

Biographies:

Natalie Freed
Natalie earned her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Arts, Media, and Engineering from Arizona State University. Her research is centered on creating technology for children that leaves room for redefinition. She is particularly fascinated by the characters and worlds children create together in real time when they engage in imaginative play. In the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab, Natalie is researching interactive robotic characters for creative second language learning. She has helped facilitate several summer e-textiles workshops at UC Berkeley?s CNMAT, and has consulted in electronics prototyping.

Emily Lovell
Emily Lovell holds a B.A. in Computer Science with a minor in Electronic Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a certificate in Graphic Design from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. Emily?s research is currently focused on creating e-textile support materials for educators, with an interest in developing technological self-efficacy. She has also helped design and develop LilyPond, an online e-textile community. In conjunction with her research with the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab, Emily has organized and facilitated several e-textile workshops leveraging the LilyPad Arduino toolkit and similar technologies.

Jie Qi
Jie holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and experience in electronics design and fabrication at Eyebeam Art and Technology center. Her current research investigates materials, techniques and processes to blending electronics and computation with paper craft. She is also interested in examining the role of handcrafting and personalization in creating modern technology. Ultimately, she aims to apply this knowledge to enable everyone to create their own expressive electronics. As part of her current work with the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, she has facilitated numerous electronic crafts workshops.

Moderator: Tejinder Judge (Virginia Tech)
Panelists: Jamika Burge (Information Systems Worldwide Corporation), Robin Jeffries (Google, Inc.), Erika Poole (Pennsylvania State University), and Laurian Vega (Next Century Corporation)

Abstract:Women in technical fields may face gender bias, impostor syndrome, and stereotype threats on a daily basis. This BOF session will address the secondary and perhaps more enduring effect of these issues: confidence dips. With a mix of panelists from academia and industry, representing varying career stages, we will (1) present tips for managing and dealing with issues of self-confidence, and (2) moderate a hands-on activity in which attendees will practice confidence building.

Biographies:

Tejinder Judge
Tejinder Judge is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on examining families’ use of technology in their home and on understanding the implications of technology on communication, connectedness and awareness between families. Tejinder has completed internships at Kodak Research Labs and IBM Almaden Research Center. She was also President of the Computer Science Graduate Council at Virginia Tech. Tejinder will discuss multiple dips in confidence that she experienced in graduate school.

Jamika Burge
Jamika Burge is currently a Senior Behavioral Computer Scientist at i_SW, an Information Systems company in Arlington, VA that provides high-end, advanced technical and research services to the US Government and other customers. Her research interests lie in HCI, comfortably, in the intersection of behavioral methodology and technology use, and she enjoys applying her skills in new and innovative ways. She experienced a slip in confidence in graduate school, when faced with finding a new research advisor and topic, at the same time.

Robin Jeffries
Robin Jeffries is a User Experience Analyst at Google, where she focuses on understanding how people search and how advertising fits into a compelling search experience. She has been a researcher at the University of Colorado, Carnegie-Mellon University and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. She has a PhD in Quantitative Psychology and BA degrees in Math and Computer Science. She also moonlights as Her Systers’ Keeper, the cat herder for 3100 women in technology on Systers. Despite 35 years of experience in her field, she still experiences regular dips in confidence, though at least the things that she is afraid she can’t do are harder than they were a few decades ago.

Erika Poole
Dr. Erika S. Poole is an assistant professor of Information Sciences & Technology at Penn State University, University Park. Her research focuses on technology use and adoption by American families, integration of health-related technologies in institutional settings (particularly K-12 schools), and the development and evaluation of innovative computer gaming applications for improving health and wellness. Dr. Poole holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing and MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University. She will discuss the frequent dips in confidence that come with being a new faculty member.

Laurian Vega
Laurian Vega is a Human Factors Engineer at Next Century where she designs and evaluates cutting edge interfaces that help save lives. She recently graduated with her PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech where she studied usable security. She enjoys geo-caching, reading, and mentoring. Laurian also manages the links for the Systers Listserv. She faced a dip in confidence after having her first child while in graduate school.

Moderator: Danielle Cummings (Texas A&M University)
Panelists: Nadine Shillingford (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Kiara Williams (Microsoft) and Tiffani Williams (Texas A&M University)

Abstract: According to historical trends published by the computing research association, in 2007 19% of CS/CE degrees granted went to women; of that number, only 1% of them were African American women. What if there was something we could do to change these numbers? The purpose of this birds of a feather session is to bring together women in computing to brainstorm solutions related to recruiting and retention of black women.

Biographies:

Danielle Cummings
Danielle is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSCE) at Texas A&M University where she conducts research involving location-aware systems and augmented reality for team coordination. As an officer in the Aggie Women in Computer Science (AWICS), Danielle has worked to improve the academic experience and bridge the social gap between not only minorities, but all students in CSCE. Danielle has also served on the steering committee for the Black Women in Computing (BWiC) organization and is committed to implementing a national online resource and support system and for black women and supporters in computing.

Nadine Shillingford
Dr. Nadine Shillingford graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a PhD in Computer Science in 2010. Her research focus was on the challenges of QoS management in wireless mesh networks. Dr. Shillingford is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where she enjoys teaching Computer Architecture and Computer Networks. She enjoys researching various areas of ad-hoc networks especially sensor networks. In her spare time, Dr. Shillingford enjoys cooking, reading and playing with her five year old daughter.

Kiara Williams
Kiara Williams is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Women’s Studies at DePauw University. She holds leadership positions in various minority and women support organizations including the Association for African American Students (AAAS), Association for Computing Machinery for Women, and DePauw’s Women in Computer Science for which she currently serves as president. She recently spoke at the Ohio Women in Computing conference about her experiences as a double minority student in her academic program. Kiara is passionate about improving the academic experience of both women and minorities in computing.

Tiffani Williams
Dr. Tiffani L. Williams is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University. During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was the Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University. She earned her B.S. in computer science from Marquette University and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida. Her honors include a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship. Her research interests are in the areas of bioinformatics and high- performance computing.

Moderator: A.J. Brush (Microsoft Research)
Panelists: Gilda Garreton (Oracle Corporation), and Patty Lopez (Intel)

Abstract: Do you work as a researcher in industry? Are you interested in meeting and exchanging ideas with other industry researchers? Come to this BOF to network and exchange strategies for a successful career in industry research.

Biographies:

A.J. Brush
A.J. Bernheim Brush is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. A.J.’s research area is Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on Ubiquitous Computing and Computer Supported Collaboration. She currently focuses on Contextual Computing, using sensing, inference, and prediction to enable new experiences in the home and on mobile devices. A.J. publishes frequently at the top conferences in her research areas and she holds 5 patents. She was honored to receive a Borg Early Career Award in 2010. A.J. serves on the CRA-W board and was the ACM SIGCHI VP for Membership from 2006 – 2009 and program co-chair for Pervasive 2009.

Gilda Garreton
Gilda Garretón is a Principal Engineer at Oracle Labs/Oracle and her main research focuses on VLSI CAD, computer architecture for databases and parallel programming. She is an Open Source advocate and a Java/C++ developer. She is one of the main developers of Electric, a java.net VLSI CAD tool. Gilda received her B.A. and Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and her Ph.D. from the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). She is the co-founder of the community Latinas in Computing (LiC) whose goal is to promote leadership and professional development among Latinas in the engineering field.

Patty Lopez
Patty Lopez spent 19 years at HP transferring technology into products and holds seven imaging patents. Patty joined Intel in 2008 and works on microprocessor logic validation design for test. Patty graduated with high honors from New Mexico State University with a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Patty received several technical leadership, diversity, and community service awards, including the 2010 HENAAC Award for Community Service. She serves on the CAHSI, ABI, and CRA-W Boards and the GHC organizing committee in several roles. Her current passion is computer science education, and creating an inclusive organizational culture in the workplace.

Presenters: Sharon P. Mason (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Jennifer Goodall (University at Albany)

Abstract: This presentation will explore the key areas to focus on when considering starting a Women in Computing or Women in Technology Program. Two faculty members (with administrative responsibilities for this area) will present on the challenges that they faced and the successes they achieved. They will focus on key points that can be used by others to get a program started including budget, planning, faculty and student participation and assessment.

Biographies:

Sharon P. Mason
In her role with WIC, Sharon has cultivated programs for the support and retention of women students, faculty and staff in the computing college and outreach to K-12 women in the community. Since 2008, WIC has hosted dozens of events and reached more than 600 people through purposeful programming and assessment. Sharon is also a co-PI on the NSF funded ADVANCE IT-Start project, “Establishing the Foundation for Future Organizational Reform and Transformation @ RIT” (EFFORT@RIT), which involves collecting and analyzing data on the factors that women seek in an academic position and determining how well RIT provides for these.

Jennifer Goodall
Jennifer recognized the need for increased support of women in computing when one of the CS women told her that there were three women in a class of over 200 and the boys all talked about how easy the work was. In reality, this student had the highest GPA of all the students in CS! Jennifer organized the first student trip to Grace Hopper and after seeing their confidence bloom, she knew she had to do more. She organizes and partners with other groups on various outreach and retention programs throughout the academic year and summers.

Panelists: Doris L. Carver, Jan Cuny, Susanne E. Hambrusch, and Suzanne Westbrook (All panelists are from the National Science Foundation)

Abstract: Join us to learn about the numerous opportunities to engage with the National Science Foundation and other agencies. Permanent and rotator positions are regularly available for division directors, program directors, Einstein Fellows, AAAS Fellows and more. A number of NSF people will be available to talk about their work and why they choose to work at NSF, as well as answer attendee questions.

Biographies:

Jan Cuny
Jan Cuny has been a member of the computer science faculty at Purdue University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Oregon. Since 2004, she has been a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation, where she heads the Education workforce Cluster. Her primary interests are in education—especially K-12 education—and broadening participation in computing. She is currently working on NSF’s Computing Education for the 21st Century and Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance programs. For her efforts with underserved populations, she is a recipient of one of the 2006 ACM President’s Award, the 2007 CRA A. Nico Habermann Award, and the 2009 Anita Borg Institute’s Woman of Vision Award for Social Impact.

Doris L. Carver
Doris Carver is a Program Director in the Division of Graduate Education at the NSF working with the Graduate Research Fellowship and IGERT programs. She is a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University where she directs the Software Engineering Laboratory. She was Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development and Interim Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development at LSU. She is an IEEE Fellow and AAAS Fellow. Her BA in mathematics is from Carson Newman College, her MS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and her PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Susanne Hambrusch
Susanne Hambrusch is currently serving at NSF as the Director of the Division of Computing and Communication Foundation in CISE. She is on leave from Purdue where she is a professor of computer science and served as department head from 2002-07. Susanne holds a Diplom Ingenieur in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and a Ph.D. in CS from Penn State. Her research interests are in query and data management in mobile environments, parallel and distributed computation, analysis of algorithms, and computer science education. Before joining NSF, she served on the board of directors CRA and CRA-W.

Suzanne Westbrook
Suzanne Westbrook is currently serving at NSF as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education in EHR. She is on leave from the University of Arizona where she is Associate Director of the School of Information: Science, Technology, and Arts. She previously served as Associate Head for the UA Computer Science Department. Her PhD is in CS from the University of Louisiana – Lafayette. Suzanne’s research interests are in computer science education and in ways to create interdisciplinary opportunities in computing in K-20. In 2009 she helped create the CSTA K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop held annually at Hopper.

Moderator: Jessica Dickinson Goodman (Carnegie Mellon University/HollaBack)
Panelists: Joe LeBlanc (HollaBackPDX), Jill Dimond (Georgia Technical Institute and HollaBack), and Emily May (HollaBack)

Abstract: We can make women’s lives safer, smarter, and brighter in any country and in our time. Our panelists use social media and mobile technology to help women protect themselves from gender-based harassment and violence on the streets and online. Learn to lead a movement against marital rape and combat public sexual harassment with a cellphone. Join HollaBack and Take Back The Tech! to discuss movement building in the 21st century.

Biographies:

Jessica Dickinson Goodman
Jessica Dickinson Goodman is a Carnegie Mellon University in the prestigious 5th Year Scholar program. She has her blackbelt from a dojo (Karate studio) where “you kick like a girl” is a compliment. She has served as the web content manager for the World Organization for Human Rights USA, the New Media Fellow for the Polaris Project, and a technical intern for Survivors Connect. She also volunteers for HollaBack. Her essay, “High School Politics”, was published in _She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff_ by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders in 2006.

Joe LeBlanc
Joe LeBlanc is an activist with HollaBackPDX, a graduate from the Out in Front Seattle LGBTQI leadership program, and one of the founders of and the Administrator for QPatrol PDX, Portland’s first ever LGBTQI community foot patrol. Joe is a Cajun Gender queer Butch who is a believer in personal story-telling as a significant method for people to share experiences and solidify a better understanding about LGBTIQ identities, issues, and concerns. Joe is an advocate for building Queer community wherever possible, both in person and in on-line forums devoted to Queer issues.

Jill Dimond
Jill Dimond is a PhD student at Georgia Tech and is advised by Dr. Amy Bruckman. Her research focuses on digital activism and developing technology to organize internationally, and specifically doing action research with Hollaback!. She is a NSF Graduate Fellow, an Anita Borg Google scholar, and has interned for the App Inventor project at Google.

Emily May
Emily May is an international leader in the anti-street-harassment movement. In 2005, at the age of 24, she co-founded Hollaback!, a movement to end street harassment, in New York City. The movement has since spread across the world, from Columbia, Missouri to Mumbai. As an expert on street harassment, Ms. May has been featured on ABC, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, and CNN and was recently selected as one of thirty “Women Making History” by the Women’s Media Center, along with Rachel Maddow and Nancy Pelosi, as a “ChangemakHER” by the Ashoka Foundation, along with Melinda Gates.

Co-Moderators: Pamela K. Arya (A-T Solutions) and Grace Crowder (NSA)
Panelists: Deb Agarwal (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and Donna Roy (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Abstract: Speed Mentoring is a relatively new concept that focuses on time-efficient networking by providing a venue and a structured method for participants to seek out their own formal and informal mentoring relationships. Any one of our 60 Speed Mentoring slots allows you to meet potential mentors, mentees, allies, and sources of information to help you make the most of your career.

Biographies:

Pamela K. Arya
Pamela Arya is currently a Vice President at A-T Solutions, the country’s leading counter terrorism and counter-IED firm. Previously she was a Director at Harris Crucial Security specializing in cyber and media forensics tools. She was also an Executive Director for Applied Minds, a research and development company. Ms. Arya’s areas of interest include collaborative tools, advanced visualization and fusion of multi-source data. Ms. Arya attended Brown University receiving a BS in Geo-Physics. She has a MS from The Johns Hopkins University in Computer Science. She serves on the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors and ABI Board of Advisors.

Grace Crowder
Grace Crowder joined the Research Directorate of the National Security Agency in January 1998. Ms. Crowder has collaborated with government, industry, and academia on such projects as: text document genre identification, tuple-based database,an analytic framework for streaming data. Grace is the program manager for a university-level summer CS intern program. She holds a BS in Mathematics from Goucher College, a MS in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University and completed the course work for a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UMBC. Previously, she spent 10 years in industry and 6 years on the CS faculty of Towson State University.

Deb Agarwal
Deb Agarwal is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and head of the Advanced Computing for Science Department. She is leading several teams developing cyber infrastructure to support scientific research. Her current projects are developing a data server infrastructure to enhance data browsing and analysis capabilities for eco-science and new computational modeling environments for environmental management and carbon capture at power plants. Dr. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Donna Roy
Ms. Roy joined the DHS in December of 2006 and current serves as the CIO’s Executive for Information Sharing She is driving the development of the DHS information sharing environment and including technical policy development and coordination with the White House National Security Staff and the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment. Ms. Roy served as the VP for Product Development in a Fortune 200 company in the financial services sector and the VP for a major data operations division. She has over 29 years of experience culminating a data-oriented view for technology implementation that increases operational efficiency.

Presenter: Stacy Branham (Virginia Tech)

Abstract:Time management is a critical skill, especially for women in the male-dominated field of Computer Science. This session is tailored to female undergraduate and graduate students who oftentimes have limited time management experience, highly stressful time demands, and shallow support networks. We will present a panel of expert time managers and run a short collaborative activity so that women can learn from the experiences of one another and create lasting support networks.

Biography:

Stacy Branham
Stacy Branham holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the same institution. Her research seeks a nuanced understanding of couples in intimate relationships towards the development of appropriate technologies to support couples. In Spring 2009, she was the recipient of the Claire Boothe Luce Fellowship for women in science, mathematics, and engineering. In recent summers, she interned with FXPal and Intel labs.

Moderator: Rosa Enciso (Microsoft)
Panelists: Sarah Buchanan (University of Central Florida), Aparna Sharma (Microsoft), and Megha Siddavanahalli (Microsoft)

Abstract: Has the process of idea generation evolved? Have you considered what you could create if you weren’t really looking for a problem to solve but rather looking at the resources at hand? This session encourages the audience to think about possibilities of defining a product using unconventional thinking and collaboration. Come join us to unleash your creativity.

Biographies:

Rosa Enciso
Rosa Enciso joined Microsoft in February 2010 as a Software Development Engineer. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in December 2009. Rosa is currently at the MSN Relevance team where she is working on developing services and algorithms to optimize the relevance of content shown to users at the MSN Portal. Rosa’s research interests are in the areas of algorithms, graph theory, and graph theoretical applications. She is originally from Cusco, Perú.

Sarah Buchanan
Sarah Buchanan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and works for the Interactive Systems and User Experiences Lab (ISUE Lab) there. She is currently working on CSTutor a pen-based tutor for computer science students and a tennis training game using the Microsoft Kinect.

Aparna Sharma
Aparna Sharma is a Software Engineer in Test at Microsoft since 2005 working in the MSN division. She is currently working in the MSN Relevance Team, testing systems and algorithms that optimize content relevance. Aparna has a Masters in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and Bachelors in Engineering from Mumbai University, India. Megha Siddavanahalli Microsoft Software Development Engineer in Test Megha Siddavanahalli (meghas@microsoft.com) works as a software engineer in test disciple at Microsoft. She has been working with different groups in the MSN division and is currently working in the MSN Relevance team. She is originally from India where she did her B.Eng before coming to the US for her M.Eng at Cornell.

Megha Siddavanahalli
Megha Siddavanahalli works as a software engineer in test disciple at Microsoft. She has been working with different groups in the MSN division and is currently working in the MSN Relevance team. She is originally from India where she did her B.Eng before coming to the US for her M.Eng at Cornell.