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ACM-W supporting, triumphal and advocating for Women in Computing skip to main content Association for Computing Machinery ACM-W supporting, triumphal and advocating for Women in ComputingJoin our Mailing ListACM HomeWell-nighACM-WAbout ACM-WACM-W EuropeACM-W IndiaStudent ChaptersStudent Chapters HomeACM-W Student ChaptersWant to start an ACM-W Student Chapter?ResourcesProfessional ChaptersResourcesStart a ACM-W Professional ChapterCelebrationsCelebrations HomeACM CelebrationsResources2018-2019 CelebrationsPrevious CelebrationsScholarshipsScholarships HomeACM-W ScholarshipsScholarship – FAQsScholarship Winners 2017Scholarship Winners 2016Scholarship Winners 2015Scholarship Winners 2014Scholarship Winners 2013AwardsAwards HomeACM-W AwardsACM Athena LecturesACM Athena Lecturers Award WinnersACM Awards RecipientNewslettersNewsletters HomeACM-W ConnectionsACM-W Connections – September 2018ACM-W Connections – July 2018ACM-W Connections – May 2018ACM-W Connection – June 2018Newsletter ArchivesWho is whoWho Is Who HomeContact UsCouncil Members MORE ACM-W Supporting, triumphal and advocating for Women in ComputingACM Council on Women in ComputingHomeAbout ACM-W Mission StatementACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger polity to whop the contributions of technical women. Download and distribute the ACM-W brochure.Our Corporate SupportersWe are very grateful for the support of several corporate sponsors. At present, ACM-W has funding from Oracle (through Oracle Academy), Microsoft Research, and Google for our scholarships, from Google for the Athena Lecturer Award, and standing support from Microsoft Research for the Celebrations and for polity higher related activities. Thanks to their generosity in helping us to support, gloat and well-wisher for women in computing.Letter from ACM-W ChairThe start of a new year for the projects of ACM-W brings such a sense of excitement! Hopefully August provided an opportunity for our many volunteers to take a relaxing unravel and rejuvenate for what lies superiority as this promises to be flipside zippy year for our Celebrations, Chapters and Scholarships projects.As we kick things off this September, we have a few changes on our ACM-W Council that I’d like to highlight.Many thanks to valedictory committee chairs Adriana Compagnoni (Scholarships) and Lissa Clayborn (K-12). Adriana will protract to serve as a reviewer for scholarship applications and we much fathom her defended service to that project. Lissa is moving on to other opportunities and we wish her nothing but the weightier in her future endeavors.A warm welcome is extended to Viviana Bono, an Associate Professor at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. Viviana will be chair of the Scholarships program. We are grateful for her willingness to step into this role and squint forward to working with her going forward.Reminder: Participate in the Global Survey projectIt is important that the Computer Science polity have a strong representation in the global survey stuff conducted by the project A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences (https://icsugendergapinscience.org). The goal is to collect responses from 45,000 scientists worldwide. Participation is not limited by gender and all undergraduate students, graduate students and professionals who have worked in computing are encouraged to respond. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes of your time to well-constructed and can be accessed in one of seven languages, by visiting http://statisticalresearchcenter.org/global18. Please encourage your colleagues and peers to do the same. ACM-W at GHCOnce again, ACM-W will have a diner in the walkout hall at GHC 2018. This year’s priming in Houston, TX is expecting increasingly than 20,000 attendees. If you are one of them, please come by our diner (#7816) and say hello!Other ACM-W NewsThis newsletter moreover includes the pursuit from our project committees:The Student Chapters report introduces five newly worked chapters and moreover announces a new social media wayfarers that will enable installment members to share their stories of their journey in computing.The inaugural meeting of the Northwest Ohio ACM-WInstallmentis highlighted in the Professional Chapters report. Congratulations on this milestone event!The Celebrations report features information well-nigh conferences on deck for the month of October, which includes womENcourage 2018. The ACM-W Europe report presents program information for the conference.Aruquia Peixoto, SIG Liaison on the ACM-W Council, provides two reports on her recent participation at ACM SIGGRAPH and the (WM)2 World Meeting for Women in Mathematics.Finally, Liesbeth De Mol provides a report from the Computability in Europe conference, for which ACM-W was a sponsor.Thanks for standing with us as we work to fulfill our mission.Jodi Tims ACM-W ChairWhat’s NEWThe ACM Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to shepherd research conferences. The student does not have to present a paper at the priming to be eligible for a scholarship. Applications are evaluated at 6 occasions each year, to distribute awards wideness a range of conferences, with usually 3-6 awards given for each group of applications. The ACM Scholarships are made possible due to the generous support of Microsoft, Google and Oracle.Why You Should Join ACM-WIf you think it is important to recruit and retain as many women as possible in the computing field, you should join ACM-W! Together, we will help celebrate, inform and support women in computing:Celebrate: One of the most popular ways to gloat women in computing is by starting and/or peekaboo an ACM-W Celebration of Women in Computing; the upbringing of women in computing are at the heart of ACM-W’s e-Newsletter. And ACM-W encourages its members to gloat the work of prominent women by nominating them for Awards — such as the Athena Award & Lecture — as well as ACM Advanced Grade Membership.Inform: Via ACM-W’s student scholarship program, young women are informed well-nigh the research going on, and wilt witting with the researchers, in their field. Members of ACM-W Student Chapters are informed well-nigh the educational and career opportunities misogynist to them.Support: Lend your enthusiasm, inspiration, and support to ACM-W, and help make a difference in the global computing community!When you join ACM, or renew your membership, trammels the box for ACM-W. You will be widow to our email list and receive our ACM-W Connection newsletter. Recent Posts ACM-W Connections – September 2018 2018-2019 Celebrations ACM-W Connections – July 2018 ACM-W Connections – June 2018 Congratulations to ourWeightierFacebook Post Winner!CategoriesACM-W ConnectionsAwardsCelebrationsChapters Student ChaptersScholarshipsWho is who ACM-W Professional ChaptersStart a ACM-W ProfessionalInstallmentFacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogle+YouTubeInstagramFlickrEmail