Women in Computing over the last 20 (or more) years

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Women in Computing over the last 20 (or more) years
Wednesday May 11, 2006 - 11:30 AM Engineering 2 Building, Room #599

Speaker: Dr. Robin Jeffries - Moderator of the Systers mailing list and User Experience Lead at Google Inc.

Abstract:
Robin will reflect on what it's meant to be a "woman in computing" over the last generation, both from her personal perspective as a woman, mother, engineer, researcher, manager and a few other roles and from the perspective of Her Systers' Keeper, the moderator of the Systers list. She'll project out to what she believes the field will be like for women in the next 10-20 years.

About the Presenter:
Dr. Robin Jeffries is currently UI Lead at Google. She has been a researcher and practitioner in the field of Human-Computer Interaction for 25 years, at the University of Colorado, Carnegie-Mellon University, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Sun Microsystems, where she was a Distinguished Engineer. She has over 30 research publications. SIGCHI (the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction) awarded her their Lifetime Service Award in 2003. Robin is the Technical Program Chair for CHI 2006. She moonlights as Her Systers' Keeper for the Systers electronic community.