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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

Americans are in danger of losing their competitive edge in the world economic system. This idea seems to have widespread, bipartisan support, which is rarely heard of in Washington these

The phrase “work-life balance” has become a ubiquitous term in most lexicons and it yields about 2 million hits on Google. For many, and I used to be one of

I was excited to share the stage at the Google Faculty Summit with Lucy Sanders and her CS colleagues — and flattered to be a former literature professor in a

Recently I met with the director of youth activities at a local community center in Seattle. We were sitting together in the center’s new computer facility, home to twelve work-stations,

What do technical innovation and diversity have to do with one another? Very little, apparently, if you follow the press coverage of our nation’s current competitiveness debate. Innovation legislation drafted

For all of the problems that his remarks revealed and engendered, Larry Summers deserves thanks for catapulting the issue of women’s under-representation in math, science and technology to a level