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technique to create opportunities for Latinas
in Computing to identify new possible
mentors/protégés and get valuable
immediate feedback.
Birds of a Feather Session
Education Across International
Borders: The Simon Fraser University/
Zhejiang University Dual Degree
Program
Location: Cairo/Hong Kong
Panelists: Youyou Yang, Xiaoyuan Xu,
Jenny Lee, Janice Regan, and Greg
Baker (all panelists are from Simon Fraser
University)
Discussion of the Simon Fraser University
(Canada) and Zhejiang University
(PRC) Dual Degree Program in Computing
Science (DDP) as an example of successful
educational collaboration across international
borders. Panelists will outline how the
program works and provide different views
of the advantages, benefits and challenges
of creating and participating in such a
program. Views include students in the DDP
and faculty that have participated in faculty
exchanges.
Birds of a Feather Session
Women in Tech Employee Resource
Groups: Challenges and Success
Stories
Location: Hanover CDE
Panelists: BJ Wishinsky (Anita Borg
Institute), Karolina Buchner (Yahoo!),
Zahra Ghofraniha (Google), and Karin
Meyer (Intuit)
The objective of this session is to bring
together leaders of women’s networks or
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in global
technology companies. Key topics to be
discussed include objectives and initiatives
of these groups, presence across global
offices, benefits to employees, challenges
in founding, growing, and sustaining these
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groups, and lessons learned. Everyone
interested in starting up, expanding, or
re-energizing their group is encouraged to
join the discussion!
Birds of a Feather Session
Influencing Without Authority:
Collaboration from Idea to
Implementation
Location: Regency Ballroom VII
Panelists: Virginia Smith (HP) and Glenna
Mayo (Yahoo!)
What a great idea! Now you must
convince a wide range of stakeholders
(from managers to developers) that this will
benefit the organization and is worth their
investment. The panelists will present their
real world experiences and strategies for
effective collaboration with stakeholders to
ensure the success of a great idea. Participants
will also have a chance to discuss
their own experiences in getting their great
idea sponsored and implemented.
Technical Theme Track – HCI
(Prior RSVP Required)
HCI Field Trip
Location: Graphics, Visualization, and
Usability (GVU) Center at Georgia Institute
of Technology
5:15-7:00pm
Please join us for a laboratory tour of the
GVU Center at Georgia Tech. Over 100
research demonstrations by Georgia Tech
faculty and students are part of this special
event for Grace Hopper 2010. The GVU
Center enables research in human centered
computing (HCC) by fostering interdisciplinary
collaborations that combine expertise
in science, engineering, design, art, and
the humanities. The mission of unlocking
human potential through technical innovation
guides research in creativity, emotion,
wellness, independence, learning, persuasion
and trust. (Maps and directions can be
found at ABI information table.)
Bonus Track
(Prior RSVP required)
Activities that Attract 4th-12th Grade
Girls and Women to Computing
Location: Learning Center
Presenter: Barbara J. Ericson (Georgia
Institute of Technology)
Georgia Tech has been investigating
activities that attract students, and
especially girls, to computing since 2004.
We have had success with PicoCrickets,
Pleo robots, Scratch, and Alice. This
workshop will allow each participant to have
a hands-on experience with each of these
tools. Materials will also be distributed that
describe our outreach programs, results, and
provide links to detailed descriptions of our
outreach activities and summer camps.
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