Year: 2007

Is the U.S. ceding its position as the most innovative country on the globe? To the degree that innovation depends on a domestic population that is well educated in innovation’s […]

I am an experimental multimedia artist, student, and teacher living in Denver, CO. My latest artistic pursuits are a combination of various mediums including still image, video, sound, sculpture, light,

Last week Ben Worthen, who writes the Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology blog, posted a provocatively titled piece called, “Do Women Hate IT?” NCWIT provided some statistics and a few

Earlier this month my husband and I packed up ourselves and our sons and headed off to Texas: first to Dallas, and then a long drive over to east Texas,

There is a new U.S. House of Representatives Caucus focused on Diversity and Innovation, something we are quite happy about. In fact, NCWIT had a hand in its formation. Back

On a recent Sunday, I was listening to my husband and brother-in-law talk incessantly about World of Warcraft. I was just starting to get frustrated by the conversation when, between

NCWIT Newsletter – Summer 2007 In This Issue May 2007 Meetings Wrap-up NCWIT Award For Aspirations In Computing Save The Date: NCWIT November 2007 Meetings Programs-in-a-Box Computing Gets an Image

I’m a school psychologist who has been taking computer classes part-time for the past four years. I’m the mother of two daughters, so I have a personal interest in the

Applications for grants to participate in the SC07 Technical Program under the Broader Engagement Initiative are being accepted through Friday, June 29. The SC Broader Engagement (BE) initiative is aimed

I had the pleasure this week of teaching a one-day session on entrepreneurship at Wellesley College, as part of a three-week course called Management Basics offered to Wellesley students and

Women in Computing group members from Indiana University, Rice University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder are organizing a workshop at SIGCSE 2007 to help administrators, faculty, staff, and

A friend recently sent me a copy of a report from IT advisory firm Cutter Consortium entitled “The Defeminization of IT.” The report highlights the trends that form the basis