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Judith S. Olsen named Athena Lecturer for research on how remote collaborators succeed or fail Mar. 6, 2011)
ACM-W has named Judith S. Olsen of the University of California Irvine, as the Athena Lecturer for her internationally acclaimed research on the factors which determine the success of teams that collaborate from remote locations. Her work combines computer science with social sciences to develop a rigorous foundation for driving technical and social innovations, which can create widely effective, usable collaborative systems. The Athena Lecturer award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. It includes a $10,000 honorarium provided by Google Inc. The Athena Lecturer is invited to present a lecture at an ACM event. Olson’s lecture will be delivered at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), February 11-15, 2012, in Seattle, WA. (more...)
ACM-W Ambassador in India Recognized as Change Agent by Anita Borg Institute Sept. 22, 2010)
More funding available for ACM scholarships to bring more
women students to research conferences (June 29, 2010)
Engineer
Says Robotics Can Use a Woman's Touch (May 17, 2010)
Out of the
Loop in Silicon Valley (Apr. 16, 2010)
Anita Borg Announces Women of Vision Award Winners (Mar. 1, 2010)
Researchers Engage Communities to Support Women in Information Technology Careers (Feb. 24, 2010)
First-ever Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7, 2009) 
ACM President Keynote to London Online Information Conference (Nov. 23, 2009)
First Kennedy Award Honors Francine Berman, Pioneer of Grid Computing (Oct. 20, 2009)
Congress Endorses Computer Science Education (Oct. 21, 2009)
Five Questions for Francine Berman, Communications of the ACM, December, 2009
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