Expert Views, Interviews and News
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Interviews
-- itWORKS Conference (Columbus Ohio, April 2006)
-- Panel discussion: Women in IT (video - approx 38 minutes)
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Participants: Moderator: Patti Ross, Associate Dean of Information Technology, Edison Community College
Panel: Donna Cardone, Network Systems Instructor, Medina County Career Center; Susan Caudill , Interactive Media Instructor, Upper Valley JVS; Carol Easley, Dean, Business Division, North Central State College; Shiela O’Neill, Programming and Software Development Instructor, Butler Tech at Edgewood High School; Vallie Tew, Network Systems Instructor, Wayne County Career Center; and Cherie Zieleniewski, Assistant Professor, Business, University of Cincinnati, Clermont; (Maria Schoonover, Senior Director, Foundation Systems Engineering, Lexis-Nexis - not recorded)
Panel description:
A report from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that the proportion of women in computer and information sciences has dwindled in the past 20 years. In addition, the percentage of women receiving bachelor-level degrees in computer or information sciences has declined from a peak of 35.8 percent in 1984 to 26 percent today. Among the science and engineering workforce, computer science is the only area where women's participation has declined since 1993. Please join us for a round table discussion about how we can encourage our young women to engage in careers in technology.
-- Professional Observations on Women in IT:
Interviews with Industry and Education Professionals (video - approx 20 minutes)
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Participating: Patti Santoianni, Professor-Computer Information Systems, Sinclair Community College; Denise Maruna , Program Manager Internships/Co-ops, Sherwin Williams; Julie Fox, Assistant Superintendent, Franklin Co. Educational Service Center;
John Strauss , Senior Vice President, Services, SARCOM, Inc.;
Matt Curtin , Founder, Interhack Corp.; Charlotte Wharton, Interim Dean-Business Technologies Div., Sinclair Community College
-- Why Choose CSE? University of Washington - Computer Science and Engineering
A Day in the Life
This video describes the lives of recent bachelors graduates from University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering, in several 2-minute profiles. Click for more ...
Power to Change the World
This video presents clips from interviews with roughly a dozen University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering undergraduate students, graduate students, alumni, and faculty, explaining why they chose computer science as their field.
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-- To the Best of Our Knowledge (Public Radio - audio - approx 13 minutes)
Powerful Signals: Transforming the Role of Women and Girls in Science and Engineering
Radio interview about the Gidget Pipeline Project K-12, an Ohio State University Technology Club in Columbus Ohio.
The Gidget Pipeline Project recommends educating girls to be designers, not just users. It says educators and parents should
help girls imagine themselves early in life as creators and producers of new technology.
Women in Science: OUT-LOUD (From WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Albany NY)
Bridging the gender gap in science and math is an investment in the future. Educators and organizations across the country are making that investment by introducing young girls and young women to fascinating career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A dozen audio clips on subjects ranging from How to keep more women in math, to What should I DO with My Life, to History of Women in Math. (various lengths)
Articles
Doing something about the lack of women in IT: Network World (May 17, 2006)
From Geek to Chic - The Changing Face of Computing: FSU News (May 2006)
High School Computer Science: Does Not Compute? by Thomas Stockwell, MC Press Online (June 2006): Evaluating the gap between what is taught in high schools and what is needed by employers and colleges.
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-- Ensuring America's Success in Education: So why is U.S. educational productivity declining? How will U.S. graduates remain competitive in the global economy? These questions and others were tackled by policymakers and practitioners from across the educational spectrum.
-- Changing Post-Secondary Education to Meet the Needs of a Global Economy: American secondary education has a fine tradition as the "engine of innovation in the U.S. economy," according to moderator Tom Mitchell of New Schools Venture Fund. Yet the current pace of globalization means that these institutions face challenges that are distinct from those addressed in the twentieth-century American education model.
-- The Future of Education: Effective Solutions to the Challenges Facing America's Public Schools: Nina Rees of Knowledge Universe, stressed the importance of innovation and competition in America’s public schools. Charter schools, she said, serve as important "laboratories for school innovation," and their best practices can be replicated across their home school districts. She also shared data showing that districts with charter school competition have seen improved performance in their non-charter district schools, suggesting that competition can have a strong positive impact on student performance.
--Panel: The Workforce of the 21st Century: Closing the Skills Gap: Speakers: Karen Czarnecki, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor; Director, Office of the 21st Century Workforce; Sally Ride, Former NASA Astronaut; President and CEO, Sally Ride Science; Thomas Wilson, President and COO, Allstate Corp. and Allstate Insurance Co.; Deborah Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness
Password security is her game: California State University - Long Beach (May, 2006)
Sun's Radia Perlman speaks out (Network World (May 15, 2006): Some people refer to Sun Labs distinguished engineer Radia Perlman as the Mother of the Internet and the creator of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges and switches. Others know her as the author of network textbooks such as Interconnections. Network World even singled her out in March 2006 as one of 20 people who changed the industry over the past 20 years. But what has she done lately? Her answer to data security: the ephemerizer. An interview with a woman who is a true innovator in the computing universe.
Wanted: Girls interested in computers The Exeter News-Letter (April 23, 2006)
Women in Computer ScienceProfiles from the Computer Research Association-Women's SIG: The field of computer science offers challenge, fun, and the chance to contribute to innovations that improve the quality of our lives. Traditionally, men have outnumbered women in computer science and engineering, but that trend has been changing. Increasingly, women are becoming successful computer scientists and engineers, reaping the career benefits, and telling their stories. Their successes are attracting more women to the field. This brochure tells the stories of a few of the many women in computing today.
Young Cyber-Sleuths: Government Technology (May 1, 2006)
News
- Doing something about the lack of women in IT A group of 10 universities is uniting to try to diversify the IT industry in the U.S. by encouraging more women, minorities and disabled people to enter the field.
- Exeter News-Letter Local News: Wanted: Girls interested in computers Playing games, doing homework, connecting with friends online - girls appear to spend as much time using computers as boys. Why, then, are so few young women studying computer science?
- Heard the One About the 600,000 Chinese Engineers? The most likely origin for the 600,000 Chinese engineers was a 2002 speech by Ray Bingham, then-chief executive of a semiconductor company. But researchers couldn't find any obvious birthplace for the Indian figures, while National Science Foundation analysts said the number was unlikely to be anywhere near 350,000. As for the academies' report, Deborah Stine, who led the study, told Bialik that the committee had "assumed Fortune did fact-checking on their numbers" and so used them. Meanwhile, a McKinsey Global Institute report had cast doubt on the quality of the Chinese engineering graduates, so Bialik reasoned that removing unqualified candidates would obviously reduce the total.
- Microsoft Research Recognizes Computer Science's Most Promising Professors With New Faculty Fellowships The five winners -- two women and three men -- were chosen from a pool of more than 100 individuals representing universities in North America. Each fellow will each receive a $200,000 (U.S.) cash award over a two-year period to assist in his or her research. The recipients are also given the opportunity to collaborate with some of the top researchers working in their area of interest at Microsoft Research.
- Online Learning - eSchool News Online A compendium of trends and new developments. The rise in virtual schooling over the past decade has had a profound effect that reverberates throughout K-12 and higher education. Rural students who are at a geographic disadvantage now can log on and take classes every bit as good--and as diverse--as their peers in urban schools. Students stymied by a particular subject can access online tutorials to bolster their learning. Online education has advanced to the point that high school and college kids can use virtual instruction to fulfill all of their degree requirements. Whether online education is a supplemental or a primary source of education, its influence is only sure to grow.
- Password Security is Her Game In the shadow world of password protection, Psychology’s Kim-Phuong Vu is a light in the darkness. With CSULB since 1999, she is an expert in human factors, an area of science and engineering dealing with designing for human use, with a special interest in proactive password protection.
- A Red Flag In The Brain Game Ben Mickle, Matt Edwards, and Kshipra Bhawalkar looked as though they had just emerged from a minor auto wreck. The members of Duke University's computer programming team had solved only one problem in the world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in San Antonio on Apr. 12. The winning team, from Saratov State University in Russia, solved six puzzles over the course of the grueling five-hour contest. Afterward, Duke coach Owen Astrachan tried to cheer up his team by pointing out that they were among ``the best of the best'' student programmers in the world. Edwards, 20, still distraught, couldn't resist a self-deprecating dig: ``We're the worst of the best of the best.''
- Science ability drops in U.S. high schools - Americas - International Herald Tribune The first science test administered in five years across the United States shows that achievement among high school seniors has declined across the past decade, even as scores in science rose among fourth-graders and held steady among eighth-graders, the U.S. Department of Education has reported.
- Tech Bits Women have traditionally assumed the responsibility of raising the family, and as children find an increasing need to use the Internet and computers, mothers should keep up with technology to be able to guide and teach their children to efficiently use their computers to maximize the benefit from this essential tool. Years of research clearly show that children who have educated and IT-savvy parents are more likely to succeed in school and later in university, as their parents are more actively involved in their education process.
- Spellings: Encourage girls in math, science (eSchool News online)
Low participation in math and science activities by girls is keeping them from achieving their full potential and is weakening the nation's ability to compete, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said May 15 2006 at the first annual National Summit on the Advancement of Girls in Math and Science.
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