Distinguished Lecture Series Academic Year 2009-2010

Midwest Women in Computing (MidWIC) Conference at Saint Xavier University
Date: October 9-10, 2009
Host: Florence Appel
Speaker: Justine Cassell (Northwestern University), Getting by with a Little Help from your (Virtual) Friends
Speaker: Yolanda Rankin (IBM Research), More Than Just Fun & Games: Critical In-Game Interactions That Facilitate Second Language Acquisition

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Date: December 5, 2009 - Announcement (PDF)
Host: Houssain Kettani
Speaker: Annie I. Antón (NCSU), Designing Software Systems that Comply with Privacy Laws
Speaker: Jose Castanos (IBM Research), The Design of the Blue Gene Supercomputers

Regional Celebration of Women in Computing (MinneWIC) - University of Minnesota
Date: February 12-13, 2010
Hosts: Maria Gini, Amy Csizmar Dalal, and Carol Drysdale
Speaker: Gilda Garreton (Sun Microsystems),How Open Source and Collaboration aid Innovation in VLSI
Speaker: Jessica Hodgins(Carnegie Mellon University), ),Robotics - > Animation - > Robotics

University of Michigan
Date: February 15-16, 2010 - ( Announcement PDF)
Host: Kristen LeFreve and Z. Morley Mao
Speaker: Sarita Adve (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware
Speaker: Radia Perlman (Sun Microsystems), Soul of a new network protocol

University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: March 5, 2010
Host: Daniel Jimenez
Speaker: John Cavazos (Univ. Delaware), Intelligent Compilers
Speaker: Cynthia A. Phillips (Sandia National Laboratories), Scheduling Movements of Multiple Mobile Sinks to Maximize Wireless-Sensor-Network Lifetime

University of Toronto
Date: April 9th, 2010
Hosts: Natalie Enright Jerger and Ioana Burcea
Speaker: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), talk TBD
Speaker: Jaime Moreno (IBM Research), talk TBD

Missouri University of Science and Technology
Date: April 16, 2010
Host: Dan Lin
Speaker: Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel (Intel), Evolution of Identity Management Systems and Challenges
Speaker: Robyn Lutz (Iowa State University), Software Product-Line Engineering for Sustainable, Long-lived Systems

University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Date: April 30, 2010
Host: Jing Xiao
Speaker: Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech), TBD
Speaker: Jeannette Wing (NSF and CMU), Computational Thinking

The Five College Consortium in Western Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and UMass Amherst
Date: TBD
Hosts: Audrey Lee St-John, Catherine C. McGeoch, Lee Spector, Lori Clarke and Richards Adrion
Speakers: TBD

University of Waterloo
Date: TBD
Host: Therese Biedl
Speakers: TBD