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Steering Committee Recommendation
Do You Have What it Takes to Process
Huge Amounts of Data?
Location: Courtland
Panelists: Claris Castillo (IBM Research)
and Barbara Poblete (Yahoo! Research)
Hadoop-Map-Reduce is a framework
for easily writing applications, which
processes vast amounts of data in-parallel
on large clusters in a reliable, fault-tolerant
manner. Empowered with data analytic
such tools, anyone can design complex
data intensive applications. The goal of this
workshop is to increase awareness on how
Hadoop-Map-Reduce can be used through
read study cases and hands-on exercises.
AND
Real World Agile Software
Development – A ScrumMaster’s
Retrospective
Presenter: Melody Hancock (Raytheon
Missile Systems)
Team development, team dynamics
and team interactions across multiple
technical disciplines are crucial to the
success of large R&D efforts. This presentation
covers the use of Agile practices
in a collaborative technical environment
including software developers, signal
processing algorithm developers, integrators
and testers of embedded software.
The experiences of an integrated team of
twelve engineers tasked with a challenging
schedule and performance objectives will be
presented from the ScrumMaster’s perspective.
Technical Theme Track – HCI
From Politics to Art: Visualization as a
Medium
Location: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Technical Speaker: Fernanda B.
Viegas, Research Scientist, Google
Data visualization has historically been
accessible only to the elite in academia,
business, and government. It was “serious”
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technology, created by experts for experts. In
recent years, however, web-based visualizations–ranging
from political art projects
to news stories–have reached audiences
of millions. Meanwhile, new initiatives in
government, aimed at all citizens, point to an
era of increased transparency.
What will this new era of data transparency
and expressiveness look like–and what are
the implications for technologists who work
with data? To help answer this question,
I report on work into public data analysis
and visualization. Some of the results come
from Many Eyes, a “living laboratory” web
site where people may upload their own
data, create interactive visualizations, and
carry on conversations. Political discussions,
citizen activism, religious conversations,
game playing, and educational exchanges
are all happening on Many Eyes. Finally,
I discuss artistic projects that complicate
and subvert the traditional notion of data
visualization by highlighting its potential as
an expressive medium that invites emotion.
Award Winner Track
Denise Denton Emerging Leader Award
Winner – Underwritten by Microsoft
Research
Location: Singapore/Manila
Beth Pruitt (Stanford University)
Roads Forged and the Roads Ahead
Role models like Denice Denton forged
paths for women in academia, engineering,
and leadership roles, particularly in
the interdisciplinary field of MEMS. Like her,
I strive to be accessible and open to collaborators
and students and to create scientific
and personal connections in my work. I will
discuss the fascinating opportunities at the
intersection of engineering and biology, and
how new connections enable new discoveries
of the role of mechanics in biology.
K-12
Town Hall Meeting: Bridging
Boundaries and Creating Capacity:
Engaging Stakeholders to Address
Equity in K12 Computing
Location: Regency Ballroom VI
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
The K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop,
the second to be held at the Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Conference (GHC), is hosted in partnership
with the Computer Science Teachers Association
(CSTA) and the Anita Borg Institute
for Women and Technology (ABI). This year’s
theme “Overcoming Barriers, Boundaries
and Bad News” will build upon the equity
issue discussions from the inaugural
workshop which culminated in a white paper
“Addressing Core Equity Issues in K-12
Computer Science Education: Identifying
Barriers and Sharing Strategies.”
Career Track
Successfully Navigating Boundaries to
Success
Location: Cairo/Hong Kong
Panelists: Kathleen E. Naughton (HP),
Teresa A. Dahlberg (University North
Carolina, Charlotte), Celeste Fralick (Intel),
Sandy Lieske (HP), Jody Mahoney (Anita
Borg Institute), and Rebeca J. Parsons
(ThoughtWorks)
This panel is to explore the personal
boundaries that many of us navigate
to reach success in our careers. As we all
move through our careers, there are many
opportunities and choices that are presented
to us. Our panelists have moved from junior
engineer to vice president, from “stay-athome”
mom to industry, from industry to
academia and visa-versa, from private sector
to government regulatory, and into non-profit
sectors.
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