CDC Programs
CDC programs are active, member-driven programs, each designed to leverage the resources of organizations that share the goals of the CDC. Individuals interested in participating in the activities below should contact the persons listed with each program Individuals interested in starting their own CDC project should read the information on the Membership page, and contact the CDC Co-Chair, Nina Berry, Sandia National Laboratories, nmberry@sandia.gov.Current Programs include:
—Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009
—Academic Careers Workshops for Underrepresented Junior Faculty
—Sending Students and Mentors to Conferences
—Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU)
—Distributed Mentor Program (DMP)
—CRA-W/CDC Computer Architecture Summer School
—CDC/CRA-W Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliance
—Cooperation with Other BPC Alliances
—IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitor Program Liaison
—CDC Can You Hang? Project
—Outreach to Societies
—Service-Based Learning
—Discipline-Specific Mentoring Workshops
—CDC/CRAW Distinguished Lecture Series and the CDC Distributed Rap Sessions
Past Programs include:
—CDC Database
—Distributed Rap Sessions
Current Programs
Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009
Next event: Tapia Conference 2009, Spring of 2009, April 1-4, 2009, Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
Nina Berry, Sandia National Laboratories, nmberry@sandia.gov
The Tapia Conference is aimed at providing a supportive networking environment for under-represented groups across the broad range of computing and information technology, from science to business to the arts to infrastructure. The conference includes a technical program (papers, workshops, panels, and birds-of-a-feather sessions) a poster session, a Doctoral Consortium, and a Robotics Competition. Student scholarships provide support for dozens of students to attend, network together, and meet national leaders in computing fields.
Academic Careers Workshops for Underrepresented Junior Faculty
Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University, taylor@cs.tamu.edu
Bryant York, Portland State University, york@cs.pdx.edu
The academic workshops, held thus far in 2005; on October 26-28, 2006 (Texas A&M University); and November 30 - December 2, 2007 (Texas A&M University), provide unique, tailored experiences for underrepresented junior faculty, including discussions and panels on requirements for tenure and grant proposal writing, and a special Leadership Panel that features nationally prominent minority leaders who share their experiences.
Sending Students and Mentors to Conferences
John Cavazos, University of Delaware, cavazos@cis.udel.edu
Since 2001, this CDC project has provided support for students and mentors to attend conferences in their field of study. Participants have attended and presented papers and posters at events such as IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Human Language Technology-North American Association for Computational Linguistics, and WorldComp’06—BIOCOMP ’06.
For information on past programs, click here
Click on "Students" or "Mentors" for application forms
Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU)
http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/creu/
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Virginia Tech, perez@cs.vt.edu
CDC partners with the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) to offer the CREU and DMP programs and the Discipline-Specific Workshops. CREU is designed to provide positive research experiences for teams of undergraduates who will work during the academic year at their home institutions. Students work with one or two sponsoring faculty members on a project for which monetary support is typically not available. The goal of this initiative is to increase the numbers of women and minorities who continue on to graduate school in computer science and engineering. Team proposals are generally due May of each year.
Distributed Mentor Program (DMP)
Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University, taylor@cs.tamu.edu
Bryant York, Portland State University, york@cs.pdx.edu
The CDC Distributed Mentor Program (DMP) program has an objective to increase the number of men and women from underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in computer science and computer engineering. CRA-W also has a DMP program, and for the first time in 2007 the two programs will have a joint application process, to leverage administrative resources.
Application Deadline:February 15, 2008, summer2008_research_internships.html
CRA-W/CDC Computer Architecture Summer School
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, mrm@princeton.edu
This two-day workshop is focused on computer architecture--with a particular emphasis on the emerging prevalence of parallel computing--is targeted in particular for undergraduate women and under-represented minorities currently enrolled as juniors or seniors in computer science or computer engineering programs. Students will be reimbursed for all reasonable travel expenses. There is no charge for the workshop. Anyone may apply to the workshop, but first priority will be given to women and under-represented minority applicants.
Applications are due June 1st, 2008.
More info here.CDC/CRA-W Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliance
Nina Berry, Sandia National Laboratories, nmberry@sandia.gov
Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University, taylor@cs.tamu.edu
Bryant York, Portland State University, york@cs.pdx.edu
The leadership of both CDC and CRA-W are working to streamline and integrate their four mentoring projects (CRA-W DMP, CDC DMP, DRS, and CREU) and the Distinguished Lecturer Series (DLS), as well as develop a set of guidelines for developing and seeking funding for joint projects. In addition, the CDC/CRA-W BPC Alliance will run a joint project entitled, Discipline Specific Mentoring Workshops The first and very successful Discipline Specific Mentoring Workshop in the area of computer architecture was held during August 2005. The report can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/~archss06/. The call for proposals for FY07-08 can be found at: http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/cdc/
CDC/CRA-W Systems Research Mentoring Workshop
More info: http://www.cis.udel.edu/systems-mentoring-workshop
Download flyer, PDF file 172 KB.
John Cavazos, University of Delaware, cavazos@cis.udel.edu
The purpose of the CDC/CRA-W Systems Research Mentoring Workshop (June 16-18, 2008, University of Delaware) is to encourage women and minority computer science/engineering students to obtain a Ph.D. in computer science. The workshop has a strong focus on undergraduates and also graduate students who are enrolled in MS programs. Topics will include information about work being done in several areas of systems research and mentoring with respect to helping students prepare for and apply to graduate school. The workshop will feature leaders in computer systems research from academia and industry to share their expertise in the kind of research typically performed after obtaining a Ph.D. Students who participate will be reimbursed for all reasonable travel expenses.
Application Deadline: April 1, 2008
Cooperation with other BPC Alliances
http://www.empoweringleadership.org
Cynthia Lanius, Independent Consultant,clanius@bellsouth.net
The CDC is cooperating as a partner with the National Science Foundation's new three-year Broadening Participation in Computing program, the Empowering Leadership: Computing Scholars of Tomorrow Alliance. The Empowering Leadership Alliance is building a community comprised of human, institutional, and programmatic resources to help ensure the success of minority scholars in computing disciplines at majority research institutions. These students, scattered sparsely across the country, face challenges of isolation. Their network of formal and informal resources, support, and encouragement, so critical to all students, is significantly smaller, and less robust, than more established networks of student support. The EL Alliance will provide students with summer research opportunities; mentoring; in-person meetings with national leaders; an online speaker series and meetings to encourage.
IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitor Program Liaison
Ronald Metoyer, metoyer@eecs.oregonstate.edu
Ronald Metoyer is the CDC liaison for the IEEE - CS Distinguished Visitor's Program (DVP). In this role, he attends IEEE-CS Annual Meetings and gives presentations on the CDC during the Board Caucus Meeting. He also helps nominate people for the Distinguished Visitor Program; the 2007 nominees were: Manuel Perez, Brian Blake, Sandra Johnson, Andrew Williams, and Juan Meza.
CDC's Can You Hang? Project
Bryant York, Portland State University york@cs.pdx.edu
CDC's "Can You Hang" project will produce a series of videos--that will be shared via YouTube, DVDs, and other means--that feature African American males in their exciting and very real careers in computer science. The people in the videos will be leaders who are taking on a wide range of challenges in computer science. The goals of the project are to: 1) Document a significant moment in African American history; 2) Serve to inspire the next generation of African American computer scientists; 3) Dispel the widely held belief that African Americans are not capable of high quality computing research; 4) Show the social contexts in which African American computing researchers are working and 5) Bring to the attention of the African American community some of the positive contributions being made to American society by African American males.
Outreach to Societies
Barbara Simons ACM
simons@acm.org
Richard DeMillo, Georgia Institute of Technology, CRA
rad@cc.gatech.edu
Gerald Engel IEEE-CS
g.engel@computer.org
The CDC is a joint committee of ACM, The Computing Research Association (CRA) and IEEE-Computer Society. CDC also receives support from NSF's Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program. The role of the outreach to societies project is to coordinate information to and from the coalition member societies on funding, programmatic and governance issues where appropriate.
Service-Based Learning
Stephenie McLean
RENCI
mclean@renci.org
Jeff Forbes
Duke University
forbes@cs.duke.edu
information on the Service-Based Learning Program will be coming soon.
Discipline-Specific Mentoring Workshops
http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/cdc
The workshops enable researchers (graduate students to senior researchers) within a particular subfield to develop collaborations and mentoring relationships. Funding is provided for most participants to attend the workshop and prospective workshop organizers can apply for funds to host a workshop at their institution.
CDC/CRAW Distinguished Lecture Series and the CDC Distributed Rap Sessions
http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/projects/dist_lect.php
Renée J. Miller, University of Toronto, dls@cra.org
Joann Ordille, Avaya Labs, dls@cra.org
The Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)—a joint project of the CDC and the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W)--sends faculty and industry researchers to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school. The visits include a technical talk as well as a variety of "recruiting" events: lunches with undergraduates, panel discussions about graduate school, meetings with faculty interested in recruiting/retention, and meetings with female and minority graduate students. In some instances, the speaker brings a graduate student to speak to and motivate the students. Applications are accepted year-round to host Distinguished Lecture Series events (see details at http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/projects/applicationsDLS.php). Resources for event organizers are available at: http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/projects/dls_resources/.
In February – June of 2008, the DLS will be combined with the CDC’s successful Distributed Rap Sessions, which help create a virtual community of minority student researchers through ongoing discussions over the Access Grid. The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources that can be used to support human interaction across distributed sites, called Access Nodes. The resources include multimedia displays, presentations and interaction environments as well as the interfaces to visualization technology. Access Grid nodes are "designed spaces" that explicitly contain the high-end audio and video technology needed to provide high-quality compelling user experiences. DLS speakers will be featured on the Access Grid, which will greatly increase the number of people able to participate in each DLS/DRS around the globe.
Past Programs
CDC Database
Stephenie McLean
RENCI
mclean@renci.org
Valerie Taylor
Texas A&M University
taylor@cs.tamu.edu
In an effort to increase the participation of minorities in research in computer-related areas, CDC, with funding from the NSF PACI Program via the EOT Programs, has developed this database of minority researchers and graduate students. The focus is on the areas of computer engineering, computer science and computational science because of the dismal representation of minorities in the research in these areas. The database will serve as a resource for disseminating of information about CDC, NPACI and Alliance programs and activities and building a network of individuals with common goals.
Click here for more information:
http://www.npaci.edu/cdcdb/
Distributed Rap Sessions
Allison Clark
NCSA
a-clark2@uiuc.edu
Phoebe Lenear
University of Illinois
plenear@siu.edu
Click here for information on past "Distributed Rap Sessions"