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International Women’s Day is today, and organizations in all parts of the world are celebrating in their own unique way. Trinidad and Tobago’s local theme is “Investing in Women and […]

Where is your organization looking for IT leadership and innovation? Are women playing a key role in shaping your company’s future? Is your company making the most of diversity? Are

It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow, March 8. All this week individuals and organizations around the globe have been celebrating the contributions of women and using this occasion to focus on

We’re very excited that the next Grace Hopper Celebration in Computing (GHC) will take place right here in Colorado, October 1-4, at the Keystone Resort. If anything beats the beauty

On February 14, 1946, ENIAC – the world’s first digital electronic computer – was unveiled. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was the world’s first operational, general-purpose,

Are you a computer science major? Your opinions are in demand. Pearson, one of the leading education publishers, is seeking participants to serve on its Pearson Student Advisory Board (PSAB).

A few years ago I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a major in English Lit. When I tell people I now work in the tech industry (and have started several

Are you a senior undergrad or a graduate student studying computer science? Are you passionate about your work, and using computing to make the world a better place? How about

ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois’ Department of Computer Science, extends an open invitation for college women to participate in the third annual Games for Girls Programming

I caught up on some reading over the holidays. In particular, [begin link /who.staff.joanne.html]Joanne Cohoon[end link] sent me an article entitled “[begin link /pdf/Weinberger_IEEE.pdf]Just Ask! Why Surveyed Women Did Not

As if I didn’t already have enough to do in my First Life, I logged on for a Second Life. Second Life (SL) is “a 3-D virtual world entirely created

This brief paper concludes the Gender and IT Entrepreneurship project that we conducted for NCWIT with support from the Kauffman Foundation. In this final paper, we present a high-level overview

My mother always knew that the most effective way to get me to do something was not to force me. Commands like, “Clean your room,” were never spoken. Instead, she

Some of you may have seen the article in today’s NY Times, “Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’”, about a recent research report that compares 8th

We all attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 conference recently, and hats off to the Anita Borg Institute for doing such a super job of running

Thomas Friedman had an interesting piece in last week’s NY Times about “Generation Q” – the generation of young people today whom he calls The Quiet Americans – and why

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday last week at EmTech ’07 — the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT — a conference produced by Technology Review. The conference included an extraordinary number

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

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