ACM-W Europe Newsletter

October 2017

ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2017 September 6-8, Barcelona, Spain

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ACM Award and Advanced Grades of Membership DeadlinesCelebrating Accomplishments of ACM Women in EuropeEach year ACM recognizes outstanding achievements of its members through awards that cover a spectrum of professional and technological areas and different stages of professional development.Following the mission of ACM-W to foster women participation in the field of computing, ACM-W Europe invites the community to welcome and recognize accomplishments of ACM Women in Europe who made significant contributions through their technical and professional excellence.Advanced Grades of Membership Deadlines:

ACM Fellow: September 7, 2018
Distinguished Members: August 1, 2018
Senior Members: December 3, 2017

Nominations are due January 15, 2018 for the following ACM awards:

A.M. Turing Award: Major contributions of lasting importance in computing
ACM Prize in Computing -(previously known as the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award): early to mid-career fundamental innovative contribution in computing that, through its depth, impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline.
Distinguished Service Award: service contributions to the computing community at large
Grace Murray Hopper Award: outstanding young computer professional, based on a single recent major technical or service contribution
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award: theoretical accomplishments that have had significant impact on practice
Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award: advancing new teaching methodologies, curriculum development in computing, or significant contributions to ACM’s educational mission
Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics: recognizes an individual or group who has made a significant contribution through the use of computing technology. The presentation of this award alternates with the ACM Policy Award
ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award: career contributions with breadth or that bridge computer science and other disciplines
Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award: outstanding contributions to ACM, in both value and degree
Software System Award: developing a software system that has had a lasting influence
ACM Athena Lecturer Award: celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science; please note: nominations for the Athena Lecturer Award are now open to all (prior to 2016 only SIG Leaders could submit nominations)

Please refer to the ACM Awards website at http://awards.acm.org/award_nominations.cfm for:

Nomination process (“How to Nominate” and the online nomination form), members of the 2017 Award Committees
Links to the listing of past award recipients and their citations

For SIG-specific Awards, please visit http://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sig-award.Thank you for joining us in recognizing accomplishments of ACM Women in Europe and ensuring they are nominated for ACM Awards they deserve.

womENcourage 2017: Amazing, inspiring and fun!

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Highlights from the inspiring three days of ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2017.

Scholarship students

Located in the charming city of Barcelona, this year womENcourage was attended by two hundred and six participants from 31 different countries. A big highlight this year was the generosity of our supporters SIGOPS, SIGCHI, HP, Accenture, Intel, Google, Oracle Academy, Bloomberg, Sopra Steria, Informatics Europe, Microsoft, Everis, Inria, Thoughtworks, Amazon Development Center, InfomaTICS. Their generosity allowed us to grant seventy-two Travel Scholarships to participants from nineteen different countries. Our scholarship participants volunteer their helping hands to keep the event running smoothly. Working together we are able to make womEncourage the success it is.

We began the conference by getting warmed up with a hackathon. Supported by Intel, 60 participants got busy creating prototypes from the Sparkfun Inventor’s Kits that Intel provided. They produced 14 demo projects targeted at improving the local environment. We heard that the participants liked being able to collaborate and learn new things (especially, hardware). They enjoyed the team spirit and building new relationships.

Workshops and the career fair filled the second day of the event. Seven different workshops offered a variety of topics, including CodeCon workshop presented by Bloomberg, and a workshop about the Greenfoot development environment which can be used in teaching. Accenture presented perspectives ‘From personalization to data and beyond’. ACM delivered a Celebrations of Women in Computing workshop, Women in HPC presented an introduction to HPC programming

Following the workshops, HP, Accenture, Google, Oracle Academy, Bloomberg, Sopra Steria, Everis,Thoughtworks, and Amazon Development Center, as well as the HIPEAC Jobs portal participated in the Career Fair. The attendees were able to speak with company representatives about job opportunities and internships. Through lively and friendly discussions they learned about inspiring and exciting career paths.

Seventy-four posters were presented during the poster session. The diversity and depth of poster topics were remarkable. Posters and their abstracts can be found at the WomEncourage poster site.

Overview of the day

It is difficult to sum up Friday in a few words. We heard from the participants that the day was amazing, inspiring, and fun. Here is a collage of photos from the final day of womENcourage 2017.

Call for Proposals for hosting womENcourage 2018
Deadline for submission: October 20, 2017.

We welcome proposals for hosting and organizing womENcourage 2018 and invite organizations to send detailed proposals to [email protected].

Proposals should include:

Information about the hosting institutions, with previous track record of hosting events.
Information about the local team that will organize the conference.
For each member of the organizing team we require professional affiliation and past experience in organizing events. The team should comprise:
- Programme Chair and Vice-chair
- Poster Chair
- Workshop Chair
- Marketing and Sponsorship Chair
- Job Fair Chair
- Hackathon Chair.
Information about potential venues
- Name
- Location
- Transportation Options(how do people get there from the airport
- Attendance capacitye
- Layout of the function space

Estimated budget that includes: cost of the function space, catering, audio visual services, transport costs, if required
Guidelines: We are looking for conference venues with following characteristics

Easy to reach from the airport and the conference hotel
Adjoins or within walking distance to a suitable hotel which can accommodate 250 attendees
Excellent Internet connectivity
Reasonable access to transport for sightseeing.

News around the world

Call for Papers: GEWINN

Call for Papers deadline for the GEWINN: Gender/Knowledge/Computer Science/Network is October 31, 2017. It will take place in May, 14/15, 2018 in Heilbronn, Germany. Researchers from all over the world are invited to present their work to further the understand and develop possibilities of action to promote gender equality in IT. For more information, visit GEWINN Conference site.

womENcourage 2017: Amazing, inspiring and fun!
Call for Proposals: ACM Celebration of Women in Computing 2018
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