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| ACM-W Athena Lectures |
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| July 15, 2008 |
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Nominations for the 2009-2010 Athena Lecturer are now open.
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 Weitzmann Institute of Science.
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| Athena Lectures
celebrate outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental 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.
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.
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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.
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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, 2009.
Announcement of Athena Lecturer: March 15. 2009.
Lecture will occur: Between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
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Selection Committee:
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems, 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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