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| ACM-W Athena Lectures |
| (Nominations now closed for 2010-2011.) |
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| February 2, 2010 |
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| The 2009-2010 Athena Lecturer is Professor Susan Eggers of the University of Washington, who will be speaking at the 2010 PLDI conference.
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The first year of the Athena Lectureship was 2006-2007, and the inaugural Athena Lecturer was Professor Deborah Estrin of UCLA, who spoke at MobiCom
2006 in Los Angeles.
| The 2007-2008 Athena Lecturer was Professor Karen Spärck Jones of Cambridge University, who passed away on April 4, 2007.
She taped her lecture, which was given at the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in Amsterdam.
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| The 2008-2009 Athena Lecturer is Professor Shafi Goldwasser of MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science, who gave her talk at the 2009 ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computer Science.
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| Athena Lectures celebrate outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental research contributions to computer science. Each year ACM will honor a preeminent
woman computer scientist as the Athena Lecturer. Speakers are nominated by SIG officers.
The Athena Lecturer will give a one-hour invited talk at an ACM conference determined by the speaker and the SIG which nominated her.
A video of the talk will appear on the ACM website. The award includes travel expenses to the meeting and a $10000 honorarium. Financial support for the 2008-2009, 2009-2010,
and 2010-2011 Athena Lecturers, is being provided by Google.
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- Athena Lecturers must be nominated by a SIG. To nominate a speaker in the SIGs research areas, an officer of the SIG must fill out the form; three letters of reference are also requested. All SIGs are eligible to nominate up to two candidates, and the SIG is strongly advised not to inform the nominee of the nomination.
Note: Members of the Athena Lecturer Selection Committee cannot be nominated to be an Athena Lecturer.
- The chosen speaker will give an invited lecture at an ACM-sponsored meeting determined by the lecturer and the SIG. (It is expected that the talk will be at one of the conferences run by the nominating SIG.) ACM will cover travel expenses and honorarium.
- The Athena Lecturer selection committee recognizes that in some fields, senior women researchers are rare and thus the committee promotes flexible arrangements, e.g., a SIG may chose to invite an outstanding woman researcher in a related area to give a keynote (for example, a usability speaker at a security meeting). In addition, two SIGs may choose to collaborate and invite a speaker to give keynotes at two meetings during the year, one in each SIG's research area. It will the Athena Lecturer's choice as to whether to do one or two Athena Lectures (and if one, which one). In any case, the two SIGs must themselves provide the additional travel funding for the second conference.
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Deadlines:
Applications due: February 1, 2010.
Announcement of Athena Lecturer: March 15. 2010.
Lecture will occur: Between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011
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Selection Committee:
Susan Landau, Chair, 2005-2010;
Susan Dumais, Microsoft, 2009-2012;
Deborah Estrin, UCLA, 2008-2011;
Susan Graham, UCBerkeley, 2009-2012;
Martha Pollack, University of Michigan, 2008-2011;
Eva Tardos, Cornell University, 2008-2011.
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| Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom; with her wisdom and sense of purpose, and her willingness to enter the fray, Athena epitomizes the strength, determination, and intelligence of the "Athena Lecturers." |
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