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It's Never Too Late: Careers in Computer Science The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and Google are pleased to co-sponsor an all-star female panel on education options for entering and re-entering Computer Science and IT on Wednesday, June 2 at 6:00pm at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
US Department of Labor Women's Bureau, high-paying occupations for computer workers and IT specialists are projected to have some of the steepest gains over the next several years. Despite the doom and gloom headlines about outsourcing, prospects for meaningful jobs in these fields is bright. Projections for future growth indicate that computers, software, and applications for information technology will continue to have a substantial impact on lives and employment opportunities in the United States. And throughout the Bay Area companies in high technology, biotechnology, law, accounting, human resources, construction, entertainment and small business are hiring for positions in IT and Computer Science. One of the many myths about the computer industry is that you must be young to enter the field. To the contrary, many highly successful women and men study Computer Science when well past traditional college age. Several innovative programs exist in the Bay Area for older students, with or without a diploma, who wish to study Computer Science. It's Never Too Late: Careers in Computer Science panelists include a mix of successful women who have followed this path and educators from a number of local programs. They will discuss the challenges, opportunities and strategies to entering or re-entering this field.
She currently serves on the Advisory Board to the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering's Forum on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce.
Barbara Simons, former President of the ACM, co-chair of ACM's US Public Policy Committee and retired IBM researcher. One of Simons' proudest achievements was co-founding the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department's Reentry Program for Women and Minorities.
Lizbeth Martin, Dean of Sciences at Notre Dame de Namur University (Belmont) whose Computer Science program attracts many students who are choosing this field later than usual.
Directions and instructions to attend the event will be emailed on May 26th. Attendance is free, space is limited and pre-registration is required. Biographies: Barbara Simons earned her PhD from UC Berkeley, and was a computer science researcher at IBM Research, where she worked on compiler optimization, algorithm analysis, and scheduling theory. A former President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Simons founded and co-chairs the ACMs US Public Policy Committee (USACM) She served on the NSF panel on Internet Voting, the security peer review group for the DoDs Internet voting project (SERVE), the Presidents Export Councils Subcommittee on Encryption, and the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion. She is on several Boards of Directors, including the UC Berkeley Engineering Fund and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Public Interest Registrys dot ORG Advisory Council. She has testified before both the US and the California legislatures. She is a Fellow of ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received the Alumnus of the Year Award from the Berkeley Computer Science Department, the Distinguished Service Award from the Computing Research Association, the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the Outstanding Contribution Award from ACM, and the Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Constance Conner is a full-time Instructor of Computer Science at City College of San Francisco. Ms Conner sits on the Information Technology Pathway Board of the San Francisco School To Career Partnership - a partnership of the San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Before joining City College, Ms Conner was a Systems Analyst at Chevron Corporation and Blue Cross of California. Radhika Malpani has a MS degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and patent filings. She has worked at Siemens, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Laboratories. Lizbeth J Martin is Dean of Sciences at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU). Martin is a research associate at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, a member of the therapy team at the Brief Therapy Center of the MRI and vice-president of the MRI Board of Trustees. Martin taught in the Human Biology Program and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. With support from a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Research Service Award, Dr. Martin completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Developmental Psychobiology in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. Martin became a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry for five years before joining the faculty at Notre Dame de Namur University. Martin received her bachelor's degree from Brown University. Her master's and doctorate in psychology from Stanford University were supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. The effects of gender on behavior and development has been a career long interest and the topic of several of her publications and presentations. Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Interdisciplinary Computer Science Program at Mills College. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from MIT Dr. Spertus has long been active in research and outreach aimed at increasing girls' and women's opportunities in computing.
Leveraging an Alternative Source of Computer Scientists: Reentry Programs". She is an active researcher in information retrieval and is a Visiting Scientist at Google.
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