Please read the announcement below for the 2013 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference, which will be held in Washington, D.C. from February 7th-10th. We hope to organize a small number of ugrads and grads to attend the conference. If you are interested, please email me and plan to apply for a scholarship by the November 25th deadline.
Thanks!
– Megan
The 2013 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in
Computing Conference has issued a call for participation, inviting
submissions for panel discussions, student research posters,
birds-of-a-feather sessions and workshops. Additionally, applications
are now being accepted for the Doctoral Consortium and student
scholarships to attend the conference. Tapia 2013 will be held Feb.
7-10, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
The 2013 conference is the seventh in the series and brings together
diverse leading researchers to present state-of-the art topics in the
field of computing. The Tapia conference has a tradition of 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. Tapia 2013 is
organized by the Coalition to Diversify Computing and co-sponsored by
the Association for Computing Machinery and in cooperation with the
IEEE Computer Society and the Computing Research Association.
Confirmed speakers include Vint Cerf (Google VP and ACM President),
Armando Fox (UC Berkeley), Anita Jones (University of Virginia),
Jeanine Cook (New Mexico State University), Annie Anton (Georgia
Tech), and Hakim Weatherspoon, (Cornell University), among others. For
more information, visit the Tapia 2013
website<http://
The Tapia conference is organized by the Coalition to Diversify
Computing, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, and
in cooperation with the IEEE-Computer Society and the Computing
Research Association.
