Mar. 5, 2021
March is National Women’s History Month. Accordingly, many of the events and announcements we're including in this week's update will reflect this. Women have long been drastically underrepresented in computer science — an imbalance we’ve sought to address in a number of ways over the last several years, not the least of which has been maintaining equal numbers of men and women in our incoming first-year classes. We recognize and celebrate National Women’s History Month. Simultaneously, we realize the need to continue adapting our attitudes and practices to reflect more than cisgender men and women.
The SCS DEI Seminar Series has scheduled its first talk on April 1 at 4:30 p.m. EDT with Kelauni Cook, Founder and CEO of Black Tech Nation.
Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing @Carnegie Mellon and Around the World, March 25, 7 p.m. EDT
Join Carol Frieze of SCS and Jeria Quesenberry of Dietrich College as they discuss the obstacles and catalysts that help determine women’s participation in the rapidly growing fields of computing. Presented by Women in History of Science and Technology. Registration is required.
HCII Seminar: Understanding and Mitigating Bias and Human Overtrust in Robotics and AI
In this talk, Ayanna Howard, dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, discussed the phenomenon of integrated trust and bias through the lens of intelligent systems that interact with people in scenarios that are realizable in the near-term. A recording of this seminar will be posted on the talk page.
Closed captioning is an important tool for those who are deaf or hearing impaired, especially at a time when almost all of our learning and work is being conducted virtually. Zoom has recently made live closed captioning available to all paid accounts, and it is easy to enable:
NSF FLIP Alliance has changed its name to the LEAP Alliance
Previously known as Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate (FLIP) Alliance, the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) in collaboration with the faculty and staff advocates, replaced the name of this signature program to one that is more inclusive. The FLIP Alliance will now be called the LEAP Alliance to embody the vision of diversifying LEAdership in the Professoriate. The program will continue to focus on increasing the diversity of faculty in computing by increasing the diversity of the doctoral student graduates at the institutions that are the top producers of computing faculty. As an additional tool in recruitment efforts, LEAP invites our newly admitted URM students to join a community of students admitted across the alliance institutions to help build a cohort that is broader and deeper than at any individual institution.
Visit our DEI website for a complete record of these updates and to discover ways to connect and collaborate with the efforts of SCS.
Martial Hebert
Dean, School of Computer Science