ACM-W

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The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women. ACM-W is an active organization with over 36,000 members.

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Celebrations of Women in Computing

ACM-W sponsors annual celebrations focused on women in computing. ACM-W provides $3,000 for each celebration, and also raises and disburses corporate sponsorship. Each celebration organizing committee is responsible for additional fundraising within their conference area.

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Chapters

ACM-W has 137 active chapters at schools around the world. The student chapters serve to increase recruitment and retention of women in computing fields at the university level and offer student activities and projects that aim to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing.

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Awards

Starting in 2006, ACM-W has offered an annual Athena Lecturer Award to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.

ACM-W also offers an ACM-W Networking Award for active student chapters.

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Scholarships

ACM-W provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs to attend research conferences. The ACM-W scholarships are offered for both intra-continental conference travel, and intercontinental conference travel. Scholarship applications are evaluated in 6 groups each year, to distribute awards across a range of conferences, including:

• The annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
• The annual Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
• Annual ACM special interest group conferences such as SIGACCESS, SIGACT, SIGAI, SIGARCH, SIGCOMM, SIGCHI, SIGCSE, SIGDA, SIGECOM, SIGEVO, SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGIR, SIGITE, SIGMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, and SIGSOFT.

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Sponsors

Sponsors of ACM-W services such as scholarships and regional celebrations include:

• Google
• Microsoft
• Oracle

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Newsletters

ACM-W publishes a newsletter that highlights people, opportunities, accomplishments, and current issues associated with women in computing. The newsletter was started in 2008 with Bettina Bair as editor and is currently edited by Valerie Barr.

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Officers

ACM-W officers include:

• Valerie Barr, Chair
• Jody Tims, Vice Chair
• Sheila Anand, India Chair
• Reyyan Ayfer, Europe Chair

ACM-W Committees include:

• Education Committee, Lissa Clayborn, Chair
• Scholarship Committee, Adriana Compagnoni, Chair
• Community College Committee, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Chair
• Athena Lecturer Award Committee, Judith Olson, Chair
• Celebrations Committee, Wendy Powley, Chair
• Chapters Committee, Gloria Townsend, Chair
• Communication Committee, Debbie Hughes, Chair

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See also

• Association for Computing Machinery
• CRA-W: Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
• List of organizations for women in science
• National Center for Women & Information Technology
• Women in computing

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References

External links

• Official website
• Celebrations of Women in Computing
• Women in Computing Oral History Collection
• Anita Borg Institute

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