Originally Printed in Communications of the ACM By: Juan E. Gilbert, Jerlando F.L. Jackson, Edward C. Dillon Jr., and LaVar J. Charleston Broadening participation in computing has received a great deal of media coverage recently on diversity challenges in Silicon Valley.2,8 Major Silicon Valley technology companies, including Dell and Intel, have released employment data and […]
Originally posted on Associations Now By: Rob Stott A recent Computing Research Association survey showed that, while more diverse than top tech companies, computer-science degree programs still struggle to court underrepresented students. CRA has a few programs aimed at combating that trend. The issue of diversity in the tech industry—rather, the lack thereof—is nothing new. […]
Originally Posted on U of T Engineering News By: Tyler Irving When ECE Professor Natalie Enright Jerger received the Borg Early Career Award a few weeks ago, there was a certain sense of passing the torch. “I remember when my co-supervisor, Li-Shiuan Peh received this same award in 2007 when I was still a graduate […]
Originally Posted in Product Design and Development By: National Science Foundation 3D printing is often lauded for its ability to create assistive technologies for those who are differently-abled. The “Iron Man” arm, created by Albert Manero and his team from the University of Central Florida for a young boy in Florida, is in many ways an […]
Originally Posted on ITBusinessEdge By: Don Tennant Earlier this month, I wrote a post about my interview with Maja Mataric, vice dean for research at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering and a driving force behind “The Next MacGyver,” a project aimed at attracting young girls to the STEM professions. As I indicated […]
Originally Posted on The Conversation By: MARIA KLAWE I’ve been passionate about increasing women’s participation in computer science for more than 25 years. While the number of undergraduate women pursuing some STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields like biology and chemistry has steadily increased over the past couple of decades, women’s participation in computer science has actually been […]
Originally Posted on Xconomy Seattle By: Benjamin Romano The University of Washington’s computer science program granted 30 percent of its undergraduate degrees last year to women, a mark that earned it recognition from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). The UW received the grand prize in the first NCWIT Extension Services Transformation Awards, “based […]
Originally Posted on US News By: Delece Smith-Barrow The lack of women in science and engineering has long been a sore spot within the U.S. education system, and it’s not getting any better. From 2004 to 2014, the share of bachelor’s degrees earned by women decreased in engineering; computer sciences; Earth, atmospheric and ocean sciences; physical […]
Originally Posted on ReadWrite By: Lauren Orsini Lead photo: Cynthia Breazeal When it comes to gender ratio, engineering is one of the most highly imbalanced fields around. Not only are few women engineers working today, far fewer female college students are entering science and technology-related fields compared to their male colleagues. And one of the […]
