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January 2006

PCAST to get NITRD Brief

January 9, 2006/In: Policy /by Peter Harsha

The first meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) since the committee absorbed the functions of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) last October 1st will be held tomorrow in Washington, DC. The committee will hear for the first time in detail about the Networking and Information Technology R&D […]

Chronicle of Higher Ed to Run Colloquy About Women in Computer Science

January 9, 2006/In: Diversity in Computing, People, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

Ok, we’re back from our extended holiday hiatus. We’ll be catching up throughout the next day or so, but I thought I’d first post a quick link to this interesting Chronicle of Higher Education Colloquy. It’s entitled “The Computer Science Clubhouse”: Only 17 percent of undergraduate computer-science degrees were awarded to women in 2004, according […]