2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference
was held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront,
Portland, Oregon
April 1-4, 2009
Click on the window below to see a video biography of Richard Tapia that was recently prepared by SACNAS (Society for Chicanos and Native Americans in Science).
Read a blog posting about the Tapia Celebration at FastCompany online.
"Advancing Underrepresented Minorities in Technology: The Richard Tapia Conference," by Caroline Simard, July 17, 2009."
The Plenary Speakers for the Tapia Celebration 2009!
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The conference theme of "Intellect, Initiative, Insight, and Innovation" was exhibited everywhere at the event, including through the involvement of the following innovators who gave 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. |
See the Schedule link to the left for information about the conference program.
The conference's proceedings have been published by ACM. Read them here.
Write to info@tapiaconference.org if you need any further information about the conference, or to be placed on the Tapia 2009 mailing list.
The Tapia 2009 Conference was 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 included 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. |
