ACM-W December 2015 Newsletter

Report of Regional Celebration of Women in Computing, East and North-East” 2 – 3 November 2015 at IIT Guwahati ACM-W India “Regional Celebration of Women in Computing, East and North-East”  was organized and hosted by Department of CSE, IIT Guwahati. This event provided a forum for the lady researchers and faculty members in the region […]

First FRIEND of ACM-WE: IE WIRE ACM-W Europe is now partners with IE-WIRE, Informatics Europe’s Women in Informatics Research and Education Working Group. Going forward the two entities will endorse, promote and participate in each other’s events, and collaborate on projects related to women in computing. We are very excited about our new friends, and […]

Report of GHC India 2015  More than 2,000 women technologists convened in Bangalore for the sixth annual Grace Hopper Celebration India, the largest gathering of women in technology in the country. This year’s conference theme was #OurTimeToLead. Following opening remarks from Telle Whitney, President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) and Geetha Kannan, […]

Barb Ericson at Georgia Tech,  ACM-W’s friend, started “Project Rise Up 4 CS” 4 years ago to help more African-American students pass the Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science (CS) A exam. The number of African-Americans passing the exam in Georgia has been increasing since the project began. Last year Barb started “Sisters Rise Up 4 […]

Welcome to the December, 2015, issue of ACM-W Connections.  We’ve got lots of news from ACM-W Europe and  report from ACM-W India about the Grace Hopper India conference.  I hope you enjoy reading about all of these activities. News from Networking Networking Women We wanted to share this news from N2W (Networking Networking Women. We […]