2010-2011 Distinguished Lectures (CRA-W and CDC)

The Five College Consortium in Western Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and UMass Amherst
Date: Oct 21st and 22nd, 2010
Event website
Hosts: Audrey Lee St-John, Catherine C. McGeoch, Lee Spector, Lori Clarke and Richards Adrion
Speaker: Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico), Why a computer needs an immune system and why an immune system needs a computer
Speaker: Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research), Recent Advances in Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment

First Carolina's Celebration of Women in Computing, Columbia, South Carolina
Date: November 12 and 13, 2010
Host: Madeleine Schep (Columbia College) and Paige Meeker (Presbyterian College)
Speakers:

Speaker: Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech), SnoMotes - Robotic Scientific Explorers for Understanding Climate Change Speaker: Ajita John (Avaya Labs), Collaborative Tagging of Conversations - Why the Murmurs during an Interaction are Important

University of Southern California

Date: November 18, 2010 - Announcements [Graduate School Event (PDF) | Mandy Pant Flyer (PDF) | Charles Isabell Flyer(PDF)]
Host: Timothy Pinkston (University of Southern California)

Panel: Why Pursue Graduate Studies [ Slides (PDF) | YouTube Video ]

	Speaker: Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech) Adaptive Drama Management: Bringing Machine Learning to Interactive Entertainment
	Speaker: Mondira Pant (Intel) Microprocessor Power Challenges  [YouTube Video]

Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing, Mohican Resort and Conference Center
Date: February 18-19, 2011 - Call for Participation (PDF),  Poster (PDF)
Host: Jodi Tims (Baldwin-Wallace College)

Speaker: Maria Klawe (Harvey Mudd College), Gender and Computing Speaker: Sharon Nunes (IBM Research), Being Green in Big Blue (IBM) - the role of IT in Shaping the Future of the World

New York Celebration of Women in Computing, Albany, NY
Date: April 8-9, 2011 -   ACM Blog post about the event
Host: Jane Goodall (University at Albany)

Speaker: Julie Adams (Vanderbilt University), Human-Robot Interaction for the Untrained Human User Speaker: A.J. Brush (Microsoft Research), Everyday Technology for Families

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: May 2-3, 2011
Host: Julia Hockenmaier