ACM-W February 2016 Newsletter

Letterkenny Institute of Technology Women In Computing event On January 22nd Letterkenny Institute of Technology hosted a Women In Computing event. The event was focused on encouraging young women of 15-18 years of age to consider computing as a career. Five hundred young women registered to attend the event. On the day 20 industry speakers […]

ACM-W Chapters is delighted to announce four new networking grants. Our Chapters Project Leaders (Lindsay and Alan Jamieson) awarded four grants to: Florida Atlantic University (USA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA), ACM-W Cyprus, and India’s SA Polytechnic. Watch the ACM-W Chapters Facebook site to see the results of these grants. /chapter gives information about applying for […]

 The inaugural ACM-W Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC) conference took place on January 22/23rd in the Nation’s Capital, Ottawa, Ontario.   The event attracted over 500 attendees from across Canada with attendees from nine different provinces, the US, and India. The event began with a banquet and opening remarks from Dr. Sheila Anand, the […]

The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences. The student does not have to present a paper at the conference to be eligible. Applications are evaluated in 6 occasions each year, in order to distribute awards across […]

Welcome to the February, 2016, issue of ACM-W Connections.   This month we have news from the first all-Canada ACM-W Celebration, and a report on a recent event in Ireland.  There are also announcements from the Chapters committee and information on recent Scholarship recipients. Thank you Google! Thanks to Vint Cerf, former ACM President and […]