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4:15 – 5:15 pm
Session Ten
Bonus Track
Women in Computing in India:
Experiences with Boundaries
Location: Learning Center
Panelists: Gayatri Buragohain (Feminist
Approach to Technology), Hassath C.P.
(Feminist Approach to Technology),
Sowmya Vijayalakshmi (IBM India), Mani
Soni Abrol (Yahoo Inc.), and Sangeeta
Bhattachalya (Intel Labs, India)
India, being known for its diverse culture,
has its own challenges for its technical
women, which have to be approached
with special treatment. In this discussion
panelists offer perspective on the gender
gap and the challenges faced by women in
the computing industry, research, academia,
Free and Open Source Software and the
efforts made to address the same.
Academic Track
Mentoring: Negotiating Geographical
and Disciplinary Boundaries
Location: Montreal/ Vancouver
Panelists: Lisa M Marvel (US Army
Research Laboratory), Nancy Amato
(Texas A&M University), Padma Raghavan
(Pennsylvania State University), Lori
Pollock (University of Delaware), and
Tiffani Williams (Texas A&M University)
Collaborating with a diverse group of
researchers can have a positive impact
on research projects, individual researchers,
and society. However, overcoming geographical
and disciplinary boundaries can be
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challenging. The objective of this panel is to
help mentoring teams successfully negotiate
these boundaries. We will accomplish this
by role-playing ineffective mentoring situations
and then constructing and replaying
better solutions with the assistance of the
audience guided by the panel moderator.
Industry Track
The Power of the Purse: Making Our
Collective Voices Heard
Location: Hanover CDE
Panelists: Kathleen Naughton (HP), Cathy
Lasser (IBM), Wei Lin (Symantec), Divya
Kolar Sunder (Intel), Vidya Dinamani
(Intuit), and Patty Lopez (Intel)
Women have a greater opportunity
for influencing product design,
marketing campaigns, and appropriate
media portrayals of women in technology
by recognizing and leveraging our considerable
collective buying power. This can be
accomplished reactively by responding
to marketing surveys and after-product
purchases, but a proactive role is more
timely and has a greater impact through
the effective use of our ever evolving social
media. We discuss ways to leverage our
collective voices.
Technical Track – Communications
Location: Courtland
Crossing Boundaries to Build and
Sustain a Massive Web Mail Service
Presenter: Julia Lee (Yahoo!)
The presentation describes several design
considerations required to build the
massive scale, highly popular, and sustainable
web mail service that is Yahoo! Mail.
With over 300 million users globally on
Yahoo! Mail, many of the design considerations
and boundaries crossed to build such
a service solve technical and socio-organizational
problems unique to massive scale
Internet services.
AND
Oblivious Context Sensitive
Communications
Presenter: Chaitrali Amrutkar (Georgia
Institute of Technology)
Context aware applications provide users
with a rich set of services using information
such as time and location. This information
is usually sensitive and may violate
user privacy. We present a framework for
developing two-party applications capable
of making decisions based on contextual
information without revealing either participant’s
inputs. We demonstrate the ability to
create efficient context-sensitive applications
based on private searching, which can
run on hardware constrained mobile devices.
A technical report is available upon request.
AND
User Identification on Smart Phones
Presenter: Saira Zahid (University of
Dundee)
Smart Phones are increasingly replacing
laptops with the increase in the
processing and memory capacity and
decreasing sizes. They are used to store
user’s sensitive information/data. Therefore,
it is important to authenticate legitimate
users of a Smart Phone and to block
imposters. The presentation focuses on an
intelligent scheme that identifies the user of
the Smart Phone with 98% accuracy thereby
providing an effective solution to ID theft.
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