From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Thu Oct 5 21:20:43 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Thu Oct 5 21:21:06 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] Oops. You missed MidWIC ... Don't miss OCWIC!! Message-ID: <001d01c6e8e5$a4eeb520$b402020a@BETTINA> Here's what you missed -> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ Be sure and check out the pictures. There was a small but mighty contingent from Ohio. (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/photos-kyle/MidWIC-Kyle-Pages/Image109.htm l) Here's what's coming up --> http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ocwic/ Be sure to save the date! The 2nd Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC) conference will be held on February 16 and 17th, 2007 at the lovely and secluded Deer Creek resort. Start planning your paper/poster/panel proposal! The registration and submission webpages will be up soon. :-) Bettina Bair OCWIC, General Chair ~~~~~~~~~ Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair The Ohio State University email: bbair@cse.osu.edu 2015 Neil Ave, DL395 tel: 614-292-2565 Columbus, Ohio 43210 fax: 614-292-2911 ~~~~~~~~ The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. --Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue Oct 17 14:11:32 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Tue Oct 17 14:12:10 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] Demand Increasing for Computer Science Jobs Message-ID: <000101c6f217$ace50e60$0202fea9@cse.ohiostate.edu> Friends -- Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that the demand for trained computer science professionals is increasing sharply [see below]. At the same time, enrollments in CS programs is down. A crisis of intellectual capital seems imminent. If you are already enrolled in a CS major, or employed as a CS professional -- good for you. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Your help is needed to encourage young women to pursue degrees in technology fields (especially software engineering) to secure their economic futures and meet the demand. Tell everyone you know that the future looks bright. Here are some details. These charts and data summarize ten-year projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for US job openings for all computing occupations requiring a BS degree or better. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair/Engineering%20Jobs.pdf http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair/Computing%20Jobs.pdf Also, Annual openings in ALL engineering except software eng: 114,000 Annual openings in software engineering alone: 91,000 Annual openings in ALL computing occupations needing BS degree: 261,000 (yes, this is even after considering trends in out-sourcing) At the same time, the total number of computer science BS degrees awarded annually in the US peaked at about 43,000 in 2001 and has been dropping ever since. These data suggest a long-term imbalance between supply and demand. :-) Bettina Bair ~~~~~~~~~ Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair ~~~~~~~~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. - Buddha ~~~~~~~~ From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue Oct 17 17:23:26 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Tue Oct 17 17:23:36 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] I came, I saw, I blogged Message-ID: <5d1a6f030610171423y7b2da901j3d06a360efb29e78@mail.gmail.com> Lucinda Sanders of NCWIT asked me to write up the Grace Hopper Conference for their blog... So I did, and I also snuck some ACMW props in. It went up on their site today. http://www.ncwit.org/ Now, if you missed attending the Grace Hopper Conference, don't feel alone. Even though there were over 1300 women attending, that's still less than 2% of all women in computing. There's always next year, and our very own Ohio "Hopper"! Make sure that you have the Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWiC) on your calendar for February 16-17, 2007. Read more: www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ocwic. :-) Bettina Bair ~~~~~~~~~ Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair ~~~~~~~~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. - Buddha ~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/ocwic/attachments/20061017/acaf2b96/attachment.html From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue Oct 24 08:17:09 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Tue Oct 24 08:17:26 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] Profile: High Performance Woman Message-ID: <5d1a6f030610240517m5e267f22h2cfe4ff71d6109db@mail.gmail.com> High Performance Woman HPC Wire (10/20/06) Vol. 15, No. 42, Maria Eleftheriou, a researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, is the only female on her research team. She has contributed in many areas, including programming models, parallel algorithms, parallel architecture, and analyzing the performance of parallel scientific applications for the Blue Gene/L architecture. Eleftheriou is also working in collaboration with others on large scale simulation studies of various biochemical mechanisms. Her favorite aspect of her work is the prospect of her research projects being "incorporated into applications." Although trained in theoretical physical chemistry, she began work in high-performance computing as an opportunity to "broaden [her] technical skills and to learn new tools needed to tackle scientific problems using HPC." Eleftheriou is on the Watson Women's Network committee at IBM research, where she helps with activities that "promote opportunities for women in the workplace." The committee also "organiz[es] talks on a spectrum of topics and organiz[es] roundtable events with executives as well as providing a venue for business topics of interest to women." She is also involved in undergraduate education: giving talks and appearing on panels to encourage students to continue studies in science and engineering into graduate school. Her view on women in the field of supercomputing is that they "are a long way away from attaining gender equality...women still represent a small fraction of the researchers in this field and this is unlikely to change soon." She says IBM is very involved in discussing the "underlying issues that present barriers to women who choose scientific or engineering career paths." Her advice to anyone interested in succeeding in this field, especially young women, is to "get out of you comfort zone and seek out new challenges." 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