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 Chair, Pamela Williams, Logistics Management Institute, wildkats91@yahoo.com.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 Technical Conferences
—Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU)
—Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates(DREU)
—CDC/CRA-W Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliance
—Cooperation with Other BPC Alliances
—IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitor Program Liaison
—Addressing the Shrinking Pipeline
—Discipline-Specific Mentoring Workshops
PLOSA 2009: CRA-W/CDC Programming Languages, Operating Systems, & Architecture Workshop
CRA-W/CDC Computer Architecture Summer School
CDC/CRA-W Systems Research Mentoring Workshop
—CDC/CRAW Distinguished Lecture Series
Past Programs include:
—CDC Database
—Distributed Rap Sessions
Current Programs
Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, every two years 2001 - 2009. Next event: Tapia Conference 2011 (exact date and location still to be determined).
http://tapiaconference.org/
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.
NSF-Sponsored Academic Workshop
for Underrepresented Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Senior Doctoral Students
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, 2006, 2007 and 2009, 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. The 2009 workshop was held in conjunction with the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference. Read here for more information, or e-mail Valerie Taylor at (taylor@cs.tamu.edu). To apply for future workshops, visit the link below.
https://apply2.cs.tamu.edu/gts/applicant/AcademicCareerWorkshop/
Sending Students and Mentors to Technical 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.
Find out more about the program and download 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 DREU 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 and optionally the following summer at their home institutions. Formerly administered as two separate programs – CREU and MRO-W – the program has been expanded and includes not only computer science and computer engineering research, but may also include multidisciplinary research. Students work with 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 students from underrepresented groups who continue on to graduate school in computer science and engineering and allied disciplines. Team proposals are generally due May of each year.
Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU, formerly known as the Distributed Mentor Program)
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University, amato@cs.tamu.edu
Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, tcamp@mines.edu
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, gini@cs.umn.edu
The objective of the DREU—a joint project of CDC and CRA-W--is to increase the number of women and underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in the fields of computer science and engineering. This highly selective program matches promising undergraduate women and underrepresented groups with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the faculty member's home institution. Students are directly involved in a research project and interact with graduate students and professors on a daily basis. This experience is invaluable for students who are considering graduate school, providing them with a close-up view of what graduate school is really like and also increasing their competitiveness as an applicant for graduate admissions and fellowships. For information about past programs, starting in 1994, see http://www.cra-w.org/dmp/#awards.
More info: http://www.cra-w.org/dmp/.
Application Deadline:February 15, 2009.
The DREU program is in need of more mentors. Please see this for more information.
CDC/CRA-W Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliance
Pamela Williams, Sandia National Laboratories, wildkats91@yahoo.com
Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts, clarke@cs.umass.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 can be found at: http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/cdc/
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.
Addressing the Shrinking Pipeline
Contact, shrinkingpipeline@gmail.com
Enobong Hannah Branch,
PhD Sociology
University of Massachusetts
Tiki L. Suarez-Brown, PhD Information Systems
Florida A&M University
Jamika D. Burge, PhD Information Sciences &
Technology
The Pennsylvania State
University
Brandeis Marshall, PhD Computer &
Information Technology
Purdue University
Dale-Marie Wilson, PhD Computing &
Informatics
University of North
Carolina-Charlotte
This project's objective is to address the main issues of attraction and retention of African American women in the computing sciences. Specifically, they will (1) interview current African American women in the pipeline and (2) produce a resource for African American women who are completing degrees in the computing sciences. This handbook will include success stories and experiences from the interviewees for the benefit of other African American women in graduate school, college professors and industry professionals.
Read a more detailed description here.
Discipline-Specific Mentoring Workshops
http://www.cra-w.org/cdc
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, mrm@princeton.edu
These workshops (see below) 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.
Find information about applying for funding to conduct a workshop here.
Recent Workshops :
CompArch Summer School on Parallel Programming and Architectures
Brown University, Providence, RI. August 20-21, 2008
http://www.princeton.edu/~archss/
Organizers: Iris Bahar, Brown University; Russ Joseph, Northwestern University; Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University; Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University.
PLOSA 2009: CRA-W/CDC Programming Languages, Operating Systems, & Architecture Workshop
March 7-8, 2009 Washington DC,
Co-located with ASPLOS
Hillery Hunter, hhunter@us.ibm.com
Dilma M Da silva, dilmasilva@us.ibm.com
Kathryn McKinley, mckinley@cs.utexas.eduApplication deadline January 23rd! As a joint effort of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), we are organizing a workshop in Programming Languages, Operating Systems, & Architecture to be held together with ASPLOS. The workshop is particularly targeted at women and under-represented minority graduate students and early-career faculty with research interests in programming languages, operating systems, & architecture. Through technical panel sessions with academic and industry leaders, as well as other informal activities, the workshop will provide mentoring to support participants in achieving their career goals. A webpage with a tentative schedule and the application form is now available on the web page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/plosa-craw-2009/. We will provide reasonable travel support for participants. There is no charge for the workshop.
Feel free to email the workshop organizers with questions or to donate support: Hillery Hunter (hhunter@us.ibm.com), Dilma M Da silva (dilmasilva@us.ibm.com), or Kathryn McKinley (mckinley@cs.utexas.edu).
CRA-W/CDC Computer Architecture Summer School
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, mrm@princeton.edu, 2007 Workshop
Iris Bahar, Brown University, iris@lems.brown.edu, 2008 Workshop
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.
Photos and other info from the 2008 workshop are at http://www.princeton.edu/~archss/
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
Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, pollock@cis.udel.eduThe 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
CDC/CRAW Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
http://www.cra-w.org/projects/dls/
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University, amato@cs.tamu.edu
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research, dilmasilva@us.ibm.com
The CDC and CRA-W sponsor a Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) to encourage women and minorities to pursue graduate education in computer science and engineering. The DLS brings prominent faculty and industry researchers to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school. The visits include a technical talk(s) by the researchers as well as a variety of "recruiting" events such as panel discussions with the visiting researchers and graduate students about graduate school, lunches with undergraduates, meetings with graduate students, and meetings with faculty interested in recruiting/retention. At the events, students will have the opportunity to discuss the graduate school process and experience with successful female and minority researchers, facilitating their ability to make an informed decision about pursuing graduate study.
University sites are needed to host DLS recruitment events. Interested institutions are encouraged to apply, or to contact the DLS Co-Directors at dls@cra.org if they have questions. Applications are accepted year-round to host Distinguished Lecture Series events. Application information, a listing of previous and upcoming lectures, and resources for DLS organizers are available at
http://www.cra-w.org/projects/dls/
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"
In February – June of 2008, the Distributed Rap Sessions were combined with the CDC’s successful Distinguished Lecture Series, 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.