ACM-W Athena Lectures


The first year of the Athena Lectureship was 2006-2007, and the inaugural Athena Lecturer was Professor Deborah Estrin of UCLA, who spoke at MobiCom 2006 in Los Angeles.

The 2007-2008 Athena Lecturer was Professor Karen Spärck Jones of Cambridge University, who passed away on April 4, 2007. She taped her lecture, which was given at the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in Amsterdam.

Nominations for the 2008-2009 Athena Lectureship are due 2/1/2008.

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