Tanya
Diversity in Technology
Date and time:
2007-07-02 17:00 - 18:00
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Computer science, a field which encourages creative problem-solving for great pay, should not be a hard sell. It should appeal to those who want to improve web interfaces for the blind, speed up parallel performance for biological simulations, perform search on video content, or create digital narrative media. It should engage those who want to make social impact as others have made world-wide with the cellular phone, Google, and YouTube. It should, but does not.
Tune in July 2nd at 6 pm for a 1 hour program called, "Diversity in Technology." Tanya Crenshaw, with the help of guests from the University of Illinois, will discuss how the faces of today's computer science community do not reflect those of the larger global community. Based on her recent study of the Department of Computer Science at UIUC, she will discuss solutions for improving diversity in her field.
