Congratulations Reyyan Ayfer, winner of the Anita Borg Change Agent Award
ACM-W Turkish Ambassador Reyyan Ayfer has been named a winner of the Anita Borg Change Agent Award for her many accomplishments. Reyyan will receive her award at the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of...
View ArticleShafi Goldwasser accepts the 2008 ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award
Shafi Goldwasser accepted the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award at the ACM Awards Banquet at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on June 21, 2008.Pictured (L-R): Stu Feldman, ACM President;Elaine Weyuker,...
View ArticleSex Still Sells – or does it? Ambassador: Jan Peters (ACM-W Ambassador for...
I was planning to write my blog contribution to reflect on the falling number of IT graduates in the UK, the poor take up of flexibility and the efforts by the British Computer Society and the UK trade...
View ArticleNews From Under Down-Under(Ambassador: Annika Hinze, Senior Lecturer,...
This is my first blog report, so as the Ambassador for New Zealand I would like to start by introducing you to my country.New Zealand is predominantly an urban country, with a multi-cultural mix of...
View ArticleHanding Over(Past Ambassador: Vashti Galpin)
Since I have come to the end of my term as the ACM-W ambassador for South Africa, I'd like to recap some highlights and introduce my successor, Cecille Marsh.I've been in this role since 2000, and with...
View ArticleElaine Weyuker Accepts 2008 Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award
Congratulations to our co-Chair, Elaine Weyuker on becoming the winner of the 2008 Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award! The Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award is given to a woman who has inspired...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Create an Economic Powerhouse Ambassador: Jehan Ara,...
Women account for almost 50% of Pakistan’s potential workforce. However, their active/acknowledged participation in economic activities is quite low compared with other economies. Even though they...
View ArticleIntroducing the new ACM-W Council
ACM's Committee on Women in Computing has now been raised to a Council in the ACM organizational structure. Our new name is the ACM-W Council, and our charter states: "The ACM-W Council (AWC) will be...
View ArticleNews From BrazilAmbassador: Claudia Bauzer Medeiros – Institute of Computing,...
Computer Science university teachers, in Brazil, are becoming increasingly conscious of the problem of the decreasing presence of women among undergraduate and even graduate students. As a result, a...
View ArticleWomen at the Brazil National Database Conference
Another small – but surprisingly effective – awareness-raising initiative was taken during the 23th national database conference promoted by SBC. During the conference (October 2008), we decided to...
View ArticleCongratulations, Dame Wendy Hall!
ACM President Wendy Hall has been appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. Announcement of this honor was made by Buckingham Palace as part of the 2009...
View ArticleStill a men’s worldAmbassador: Maria Knobelsdorf, Germany
I would like to start the January Blog by wishing you all a happy, healthy, and successful New Year!My name is Maria Knobelsdorf and I’m the new ambassador for Germany. Let me begin my report about...
View ArticleSim visits 'Go Girls Go for IT' in AustraliaGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig,...
The last years of secondary school are important for thinking about what careers students can consider. Declining number of females studying computing at tertiary level indicates that many girls may...
View ArticleAda Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Barbara Boucher Owens, USA
Ada Lovelace Day is March 24, 2009A movement to promote female role models in technology is underfoot and you can help. But first some background, most of which I gleaned from Betty Toole's marvelous...
View ArticleSandy's Story - for Ada Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Deakin...
As indicated in Barbara’s recent article we would like to celebrate ‘Ada Lovelace Day’ by publishing an article about a woman in technology. Sandy is the IT Manager for the Institute for Technology...
View ArticleHello from Saskatoon Canada! Ambassador: Julita Vassileva, Canada
Hello from Saskatoon, Canada!(where in April the ice is hesitantly thawing)Let me present to you Carrie Demmans (in the photo), a 2nd year M.Sc. student in Computer Science at the University of...
View ArticleTwo Projects in the PipelineAmbassador: Catherine Lang, Australia
The Australian ACM-W Ambassador has two exciting projects in the pipeline this year. The first, Digital Divas targets junior secondary school students. It is a collaborative project funded by the...
View ArticleIncreasing Female Participation – A CS Project Team Experience with a...
I have always dreamed of my students working with an international student team on a computing project. This dream became reality when I met Archana Chidanandan at the 2008 ITiCSE conference at Madrid....
View ArticleA German Kiwi in BerlinAmbassador: Annika Hinze, New Zealand
It is an interesting thing to visit your country of origin after several years. The New Zealand ambassador has just completed a six month secondment to the Humboldt University in Berlin.Just as in...
View ArticleReaching Out and OutreachAmbassador: Mary Anne Egan, United States
There are several projects keeping me busy this year. First, the Student IMPACT alternative programming contest continues (www.cs.siena.edu/~maegan/impact). The template of a full day program for...
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