From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue Nov 6 16:07:17 2007 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Tue Nov 6 16:07:57 2007 Subject: [ACM-W] "aliens, amazons, cyborgs and avatars" Message-ID: <5d1a6f030711061307h264e6f81ld9308f47c794a918@mail.gmail.com> English 575 sounds like fun - one week of the course is spent in Second Life. And the instructor is open to non-traditional presentations (for example, a 3-D presentation in Second Life). :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- English 575 Women in Science Fiction Winter 2008, TR 0130-0318 Dr. Sharon Collingwood, 529 Denney Hall (collingwood.7@osu.edu) http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/Albums.aspx?Name=Ellie+Brewster In this course you will come across aliens, amazons, cyborgs and avatars. You will visit fantastic planets, witness frightening visions of the future, and study bizarre societies. It's all good fun, but underlying the fantasy is a serious unease about our own world, and an anxiety about what is to come in the future. The texts for this course are primarily written by women, and they deal with issues of gender, race and sexual orientation, as well as with the moral difficulties women face in an increasingly technological society. Many of these writers are also concerned over the threat that technology poses to the natural world, and they point out the ties between the destruction of nature and the oppression of women. Other writers put forward the idea of technology as the ultimate liberator of women, and still others see the possibilities of the "metaverse," an alternate cyberspace existence, where identity and gender can be cast off like an old coat. One week of our class time will be spent in a computer lab exploring this idea in the virtual world Second Life. In her groundbreaking essay "A Cyborg Manifesto," Donna Haraway says that she would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. She argues that we can be responsible for machines and not allow them undue power over us, choosing instead to use them to enhance our social connectivity and to live better lives. But what is lost in becoming a cyborg? This is the ultimate question brought forward by this course, one that demands a personal response from each student. Required texts: Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy (Fawcett 0449210820) The Female Man, Joanna Russ (Beacon 0807062995) Les Guerillieres, Monique Wittig and David LeVay (University of Illinois Press 0252074823) Native Tongue, Suzette Haden Elgin (The Feminist Press at CUNY1558612467) A Door Into Ocean, Joan Slonczewski (Orb 0312876521) Lilith's Brood , Octavia Butler (Grand Central Publishing 0446676101) Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (Bantam Spectra 0553380958) Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century ed. Justine Larbalestier. (Wesleyan University Press 0819566764) (additional short fiction and theory will be made available on our class website) -- *Dr. Sharon Collingwood Department of Women's Studies Ohio State University 286 University Hall 230 North Oval Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210-1311* * * *Department of French & Italian* *The Ohio State University 200 Hagerty Hall 1775 College Road* *Columbus, OH 43210-1340* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/acmw/attachments/20071106/10206ee3/attachment.html From akah.3 at osu.edu Thu Nov 8 18:50:57 2007 From: akah.3 at osu.edu (Binaebi Akah) Date: Thu Nov 8 18:51:52 2007 Subject: [ACM-W] Fw: Intel Graphics Virtual Chat, Nov. 15 Message-ID: <001701c82262$3585a6f0$59d66ba4@Nerderella> For questions, reply to Alexis below. Binaebi ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:02 PM Subject: Intel Graphics Virtual Chat, Nov. 15 Hello Binaebi, Intel is holding a Virtual Chat about its Graphics program on Nov. 15, and we thought your students and members would be interested in attending. I would greatly appreciate you emailing the information below to students and members. Thank you in advance for your help! *** You are invited to join us for an Intel Virtual Chat Event and Career Fair! Come learn about Graphics at Intel! Join Dave Hofer, Director of Marketing with Intel?s Visual Computing Group, for this web-based virtual event. What: Intel Graphics ? An Overview When (US): Thursday, November 15, 3:00-4:00pm Pacific (6:00-7:00pm Eastern) Where: Please register by visiting: http://www.aftercollege.com/op/op.asp?id=1719&src=1451396722 At the conclusion of the event, attendees will be given advance access to the Intel Graphics Virtual Career Fair, scheduled November 16-30, 2007. Intel Client Graphics Chipsets Group is recruiting: All degree levels (BS, MS, and PhD) of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science for Intern and Full-Time positions. Focus: Graphics is one of the key ingredients of Intel platforms and Intel is the number one supplier of graphics / chipsets in desktop and mobile PCs?. At Intel, we strive to balance the graphics workload between various platform components (CPU, chipset, and system memory) to get the best user experience at each and every price point. Most recently, Intel announced the Larrabee project. Larrabee is a many-core product bringing IA Programmability and Parallelism to a number of high-throughput computing segments, including graphics. Larrabee will scale to Teraflops of performance, defining the 'next' level in extreme performance. This presentation will introduce Intel's graphics strategy and focus on a broad perspective of the challenges, opportunities and critical skills needed to deliver on Intel's graphics vision. After the chat, Dave and an Intel Global Staffing representative will answer audience-submitted questions. We ask that you please forward this invitation and registration link to other students and faculty that may be interested in attending this live event! *** Alexis Violon, on behalf of Intel, alexis@aftercollege.com. This information is provided to you courtesy of AfterCollege.com. If you prefer not to receive future e-mails from AfterCollege.com, email care@aftercollege.com with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Privacy Policy: http://www.aftercollege.com/privacy.asp. AfterCollege, Inc. 98 Battery Street, Suite 502, San Francisco, CA 94111 From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed Nov 21 14:04:08 2007 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Wed Nov 21 14:04:56 2007 Subject: [ACM-W] 2007-2008 Games for Girls (G4G) Competition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5d1a6f030711211104l77162e51h9accc26e76249821@mail.gmail.com> OSU has had teams participate in this competition for the last two years. See http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair/gamergirls.htm If you have a team and need a faculty sponsor, let me know! Watch for more info to be posted soon. http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/outreach/games4girls.php :-) Bettina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Harris, LaSonya Date: Nov 21, 2007 1:04 PM Subject: 2007-2008 Games for Girls (G4G) Competition To: Cc: "Chan, Cassandra J" , "Kamin, Samuel N" < kamin@cs.uiuc.edu>, "Thompson, Sandra" Hello, All: I do apologize for the delay. We received word that we were awarded funding for this year's Games for Girls Competition. Please share with students. We will be updating the website soon, but please feel free to contact me or Cassandra Chan, student coordinator, if you have any immediate questions. *FYI: There will not be any adult judges. Judging will take place by the high school girls only!!* Have a wonderful holiday. The 'Tentative Dates' for the Competition are as follows: *Important Dates* - Registration Due Date for Competition: January 31, 2008 - Submit Game: April 6, 2008 - Submit Video about Game: April 13, 2008 - Winner Announced: April 20, 2008 Sonya Harris, Outreach Coordinator University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1314 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, MC 258 201 North Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL. 61801 217.244.4493/Fax: 217.244.6073 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/outreach/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ACM-W also encourages the student's home department to match the scholarship award and recognize the student's achievement locally within her department. Applications will be evaluated in four groups each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences, with two to three awards given each quarter. For application form, notification dates and more information, please visit the scholarships page. http://women.acm.org/scholarships.html -Hui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/acmw/attachments/20071129/aa273eee/attachment-0001.html