by Dilma da Silva Originally Printed in Summer/Fall 2014 Newsletter I enjoy attending conferences such as OSDI, USENIX ATC, VEE, and SOSP because I get exposed to exciting technical ideas as I discuss great research results with colleagues whom I cherish. But, by far, my favorite event is the annual CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop. Grad Cohort […]
Originally Printed in the Summer/Fall 2014 Newsletter by Sanjukta Bhanja On May 29, 2014, CRAW/CDC sponsored a workshop to enhance diversity in design automation with a focus on emerging directions and technology. The workshop was co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Design Automation Conference (DAC) (Newton Fellowship). It was an enjoyable day […]
By Susan Rodger and Sheila Casteneda Originally Printed in the Winter/Spring 2014 Newsletter On March 6, 2013, the day before the SIGCSE 2013 Sympo-sium in Denver, Colorado, the CRA-W provided a full-day Career Mentoring Workshop for Educators (CMW-E) for women faculty and graduate students interested in teaching careers. Specifically, the workshop targeted women faculty early […]
By Dr. Vetria L. Byrd & Dr. Lori Tanner Originally Printed in the Winter/Spring 2014 Newsletter Visualization plays a significant role in the exploration and understanding of data across all disciplines with a universal goal: gaining insight into the complex relationships that exist within the data. The need to diversify a field with such far-reaching […]
by Jane Stout, Ph.D., Director of CERP Originally Printed in the Summer/Fall 2013 Newsletter It is now well established that the field of computing research is lacking in demographic diversity, both in the academy and in industry. To address this issue, many computing-related mentorship and training programs with diversity goals have been established. But do […]
by Andrea Danyluk Originally Printed in the Summer/Fall 2013 Newsletter The Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) program is 15 years old. – It’s seen some changes as it’s grown. – Its name, for instance, has morphed from CREW to CREU. – Much more importantly, it is now a joint project of CRA-W and the […]
By Betsy Bizot Originally Printed in the Winter/Spring 2012 Newsletter In the Winter-Spring 2011 newsletter, we told you about the Data Buddies project that had recently been funded by NSF as part of our evaluation efforts. The main goal of Data Buddies is to gather data on students who do not participate in our Broading […]
The CHIMe 2012 mentoring workshop took place on May 5-6, 2012 in Austin, TX colocated with the CHI 2012 conference. In attendance at the 1.5-day workshop were 30 students (25 from the US, 5 from Canada) and 11 speakers from academia, industry, and government labs. Organizers Ron Metoyer and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones developed this second incarnation […]
The newest development in our NSF Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) project is the start of a large-scale national data collection and analysis effort. This new project entitled “Measuring Outcomes for Computing Students and Faculty” is in response to NSF’s increasing interest in measures of performance of BPC programs in addition to addressing a long-standing […]
Originally Printed in the Summer/Fall 2011 Newsletter By Andrea Danyluk, Williams College What do multivariate time series analysis of physiological and clinical data, dynamic analysis of web application access logs for software testing, and development of body-area networks for bio-telemetric applications have in common? They’re all projects that have been supported by the Collaborative Research […]
