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	About ACM-W Our Purpose The mission of ACM-W is to engage in activities and projects that aim to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing. This includes promoting activities that result in more equal representation of women in CS such as mentoring or role modelling, monitoring the status of women in industrial and academic computing through the gathering of statistics, providing historical information about women's accomplishments and roles in CS, and serving as a repository of information about programs, documents and policies of concern to women in CS. The Committee   Co-Chair Elaine Weyuker Computer Engineer AT&T Labs - Research   Past Co-Chairs:   Tracy Camp Denise Gürer   Associate Professor Computer Scientist Department of Mathematical and Computer Science EMD Consulting ACM Council Member The Colorado School of Mines Advisory Committee: Jennifer Chayes Co-Founder/Co-Manager Theory Group Microsoft Research Maria Klawe Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton ACM President Susan Landau Senior Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems Barbara Simons Consulting Professor Stanford University Caroline Wardle Senior Science Advisor EIA Division CISE Directorate, NSF Telle Whitney Secretary of ACM President of Institute of Women in Computing Co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Working Committee: Dr. Barbara G. Ryder Professor, Computer Science Rutgers University Jehan Ara CEO Enabling Technologies Pakistan Paula Gabbert Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Furman University Kathy Kleiman Attorney McLeod, Watkinson, and Miller Ellen Spertus Assistant Professor Mills College Gloria Townsend Chair, Professor of Computer Science DePauw University Amy Wu Undergraduate, Stanford University Cindy Hood Associate Professor - Illinois Institute of Technology Ambassadors:   Pakistan - Jehan Ara    CEO Enabling Technologies Pakistan   Turkey -Reyyan Ayfer    Chair Department of Computer Technology & Programming Director Office of Publications Bilkent University, Turkey   Canada - Anne Condon    Professor Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada   Australia -Annemieke Craig    Lecturer School of Management Information Systems Deakin University, Australia   South Africa -Vashti Galpin    Lecturer School of Computer Science University of the Witwatersrand South Africa   Germany -Veronika Oechtering    Research Assistant Fachbereich Mathematic und Informatik Universitat Bremen Germany   India -M. Suriya    Professor, Head University Librarian Department of Library & Information Science Annanalai University, India   New Zealand -Annika Hinze   Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato   UK -Jan Peters   Manager, British Computer Society's Women's Forum Student Interns: Amy Horton University of Cambridge May Lee University of Cambridge Leanne Miller Hamilton College Organisation ACM-W is composed of two co-chairs, a working committee, and an advisory committee. The working committee consists of ACM-W project leaders and the advisory committee serves the role of providing advice and suggestions to the co-chairs and the committee as a whole. Currently ACM-W's internal organizational goal is to remain efficient and effective. This is why the advisory committee is small and a requirement for membership on the working committee is to be a leader of an ACM-W sponsored project. Thus, all members are productive and are actively contributing to the mission and goals of ACM-W. Internships ACM-W is launching an internship program to assist ACM-W in specific areas. Undergraduate students will be sought out that ACM-W can hire part time for a semester. Students will apply to ACM-W for the internship and the successful candidates will become interns. ACM-W members will monitor the interns and the Internship Program. The interns will provide a valuable service to ACM-W and ACM, while at the same time be provided with valuable professional experience, a working knowledge of ACM, and a great addition to their resume. For example, one key area ACM-W will focus on is the gathering of statistics of women in computing in universities and industry. This information is crucial in determining where issues lie, determining whether some initiatives are working, and providing the understanding ACM-W needs to move forward in a directed constructive manner. Some data is available from sources such as the Department of Education and Taulbee Surveys, and ACM-W has leveraged much of this. However, other sources need to be explored such as the Department of Labor, Human Resources Departments in large technical companies, and so forth. ACM-W members are doing some of this work, however, there is a need for help which can be supplied by student interns. Purpose | Committee | Organisation | Internship