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's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-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 community to advance the contributions of technical women. ACM-W is an active organization with over 36,000 members.

Celebrations of Women in Computing

ACM-W sponsors annual celebrations focused on women in computing. ACM-W provides up to $3,000 seed funding for each celebration, and also raises and disburses corporate sponsorship. Each celebration organizing committee is responsible for additional fundraising within their conference area. ACM-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

members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women. ACM-W Celebrations are regional conferences with global participants from industry, academia, and government. Celebration participation is growing and these events represent some of the largest gatherings of women in technology. The original Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was recognized by the US

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on their page "The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology" in the entry for

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Grace Hopper. In addition to this noteworthy beginning, the conferences have attracted the participation of technology notables including Anita Hill, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founder Priscilla Chan, and Justine Cassell of

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, one of the top universities in Computer Science. The list describes the expansion of celebrations globally to include the largest gathering of women in computing in India.

Chapters

ACM-W has nearly 200 active professional, virtual and student chapters globally. The professional chapters serve to enhance communications networks thereby providing resources and support for women in the workforce. The student chapters serve to increase recruitment and retention of women in computing fields at the university level and offer student activities and projects that aim to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing.

Awards

Starting in 2006, ACM-W has offered an annual

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to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science: * 2006–2007: Deborah Estrin of

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* 2007–2008: Karen Spärck Jones of

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* 2008–2009:

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of MIT and the Weitzmann Institute of Science * 2009–2010:

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of the

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* 2010–2011: Mary Jane Irwin of the

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* 2011–2012: Judith S. Olson of the

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* 2012–2013: Nancy Lynch of MIT * 2013–2014: Katherine Yelick of LBNL * 2014–2015:

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of Microsoft Research * 2015–2016: Jennifer Widom of Stanford University * 2016–2017: Jennifer Rexford of

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*2017–2018: Lydia Kavraki of

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*2018–2019: Andrea Goldsmith of Princeton University *2019–2020: Elisa Bertino of

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*2020–2021: Sarit Kraus of

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*2021–2022: Ayanna Howard of

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*2022–2023: Éva Tardos of

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ACM-W also offers an ACM-W Networking Award for active student chapters.ACM-W Chapter (ACM-W Networking Awards)
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Scholarships

ACM-W provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs to attend research conferences. The ACM-W scholarships are offered for both intra-continental conference travel, and intercontinental conference travel. Scholarship applications are evaluated in six groups each year, to distribute awards across a range of conferences, including many annual

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special interest group conferences such as SIGACCESS, SIGACT,

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, SIGARCH, SIGCOMM, SIGCHI, SIGCSE, SIGDA, SIGECOM, SIGEVO, SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGIR, SIGITE, SIGMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, and SIGSOFT.

Officers

ACM-W officers include: *

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, Chair * Reyyan Ayfer, Vice Chair * Melanie Wu, Treasurer * Amelia Cole, Treasurer *

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, Standing Committee Chair * Bushra Anjum, Standing Committee Chair * Bettina Bair, Communications Committee Chair * Sarah McRoberts, Communications Committee Chair *

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, Past Chair ACM-W regions and chairs are: *

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, Europe Chair * Heena Timani, India Chair * Monica McGill, North America * Jacqueline Tate, Asia Pacific * Hong Gao, China ACM-W Standing Committees and Special Projects include: * Viviana Bono, ACM-W Scholarships * Pamela Wisniewski, ACM / ACM-W Awards Rising Star * Rachelle Hippler, Professional Chapters * Priya Chawla, Next Gen ACM-W Communications Committee members: * Jennifer Goodall, ACM-W Connections Newsletter Editor

References

External links

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Celebrations of Women in Computing

Women in Computing Oral History Collection

Anita Borg Institute
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