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Early Registration Now Open for 2011 Richard Tapia
Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.  – Registration is now open for the 2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference to be held April 3-5, 2011 in San Francisco. “Early Bird” discounts of $75 off the regular registration fees are available through Tuesday, March 8.
Marking the 10th anniversary of the first Tapia conference, Tapia 2011 is centered around series of presentations by distinguished speakers from industry and academia. Confirmed speakers include:

Blaise Aguera y Arcas,  Architect with Microsoft who was selected by Technology Review as a 2008 Young Innovator and was a celebrated speaker at the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference.

Deborah Estrin, the Jon Postel Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is winner of the Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for Innovation for 2007.

Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Research at Google and former Director of Digital/Compaq/HP’s Western Research Laboratory.

Illya Hicks, Associate Professor in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University and recipient of the 2005 Optimization Prize for Young Researchers by the Optimization Society; Ayanna Howard, Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and selected by Technology Review as a 2003 Young Innovator;

John Kubiatowicz, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, was selected by Scientific American in 2002 as one of 50 scientists for outstanding achievements in science and technology.

Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer with Intel, a winner of Hewlett Packard’s Technical Leadership Award in 2001, and co-founder of Latinas in Computing;

Irving Wladasky-Berger, former chair of the IBM Academy of Engineering, AAAS Fellow, and 2001 HENAAC Hispanic Engineer of the Year.

The Tapia conference has a tradition of 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. Tapia 2011 is organized by the Coalition to Diversify Computing and co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society, in cooperation with the Computing Research Association.

Students interested in attending Tapia 2011 are encouraged to apply for a scholarship at: http://tapiaconference.org/2011/scholarships.html. The deadline for applications is Friday, Jan. 21.

About the Tapia Conference
           The Tapia conference honors the significant contributions of Richard A. Tapia, a mathematician and professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a national leader in education and outreach programs. The Tapia Conferences brings together people in CS&E from all educational levels, backgrounds and ethnicities to celebrate and support the accomplishments of this diverse community.
The Tapia conference series enjoys the support of a number of academic, research and business organizations, including:

Platinum sponsor: Google
Gold supporter: Intel
Silver supporters: Cisco, Microsoft and NetApp
Bronze supporter: Symantec Corp.
Contributors: Amazon.com, Lab126, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Learn more about becoming a Tapia 2011 supporter.
For more information about the conference, visit the Tapia 2011 conference website.