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Statistics continue to show the limited presence and numbers of women in the computing sciences. Why does such a reality persist and are there specific reasons for this phenomenon? Two guest speakers speak of their experiences.
Bettina Kemme received her M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1996 (Erlangen, Germany), and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000 (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland). She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Montreal. Her research interests are in the area of distributed information management. While living in Europe she was involved in several projects attempting to attract more women to Computer Science.
Joanna was born in Poland has lived in Algeria, Gabon, Canada, Norway,
Australia and the USA. She obtained undergraduate degrees in Pure Mathematics
and in Fine Arts, and a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology working on what she calls "Computational Expressionism".
She has worked as a researcher with the Institute for Interactive Media
at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and with the Tangible
Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. She was Director of Design for a high-tech
startup for two years and recently co-founded International Fashion
Machines, where she serves as Chief Creative Officer. She is currently
on the faculty in the Design Art and Digital Image and Sound Department
at Concordia University. Her art and design work has been shown in the
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the Art Directors Club in NYC,
the Australian Museum in Sydney, the NTT ICC in Tokyo, the Ars Electronica
Center in Linz (Computational Expressionism and the MusicBottles), as
well as in Montreal, Boston, Mexico City and Cannes. She has spoken
about the intersections of art, design, technology and computation at
SIGGRAPH, Banff New Media Institute in Canada, Interaction Design Institute
Ivrea in Italy, MILIA in France, Concordia University in Montreal and
the University of Washington in Seattle among others. |
