2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront,
Portland, Oregon
April 1-4, 2009
Register Today for the conference and housing at our Travel & Registration page. New, lower hotel rates!
The conference hotel, the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront is sold out for Friday, April 3, 2009. See details and suggestions at the Travel and Registration page.
The Plenary Speakers have been announced for the Tapia Celebration 2009!
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According to the 2009 Tapia Celebration Chair, Nina Berry of Sandia National Laboratories, the conference theme of "Intellect, Initiative, Insight, and Innovation" will be exhibited everywhere at the event, including through the involvement of the following innovators who will give the plenary talks:
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Dr. Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University
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Dr. Ann Gates, The University of Texas at El Paso
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Dr. Charles Isbell, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Dr. Jane Margolis, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
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Mario Pipkin, Microsoft Corporation
Read the news release here.
and see the Speakers' Bios here. |
Scholarship applicants are currently being notified. This will be an ongoing process for the next few weeks.
Register Today for the conference and housing at the Tapia website Travel and Registration page. March 8, 2009 is the deadline for Early Bird Prices.
See the Schedule link to the left for information about the conference program.
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The Tapia 2009 Conference is aimed at providing a supportive networking environment for under-represented groups across the broad range of computing and information technology, from science to business to the arts to infrastructure.
The Tapia 2009 Conference will include several successful aspects of past events, such as:
- A robust technical program, which includes papers, workshops, panels, and birds-of-a-feather sessions.
- Invited plenary talks that feature the voices of our community who have excelled across different benchmarks and will discuss how they have organized their scientific and non-scientific ideas to find their niche and become successful.
- A dynamic poster session, focused on students, providing a place to present new, exciting research in a relatively informal, supportive setting. The top three posters in the graduate and undergraduate student categories will advance to the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals.
- The Doctorial Consortium, a full-day sounding board to guide and encourage students working on their Ph.D.s.
- A Robotics Competition, which will test the skills of student teams in building and programming robots to operate both in virtual and real-world environments.
- Several opportunities to network, including the posters reception, breaks, and the gala awards banquet.
Look in the Archives for copies of previous Tapia Conference websites. |
