Susan Dumais was awarded the Salton award at SIGIR this week. I am not exactly breaking news here, but rather I wanted to write a post to honour this wonderful lady, especially since she helped me early on in my PhD research. I have followed her work for years now and I have a lot of [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Karen Sparck-Jones’
March 25th, 2009 - 10:39 pm § in Inspirations
Jeri Ellsworth
The woman in Technology that I want to draw attention to on Ada Lovelace day (I know I’m late) is Jeri Ellsworth. Her interests are “Home chip fabs, pinball machines, race car chassis design”. She is an electrical and mechanical engineer. I know nothing about this stuff and I[...]
February 21st, 2009 - 1:36 pm § in Inspirations
Systers pass it on…
I’ve blogged before about women in computing and called out to the SEO ladies asking if they would like to come over to the computing side. This is going to be made easier still as “Systers” have a “Pass-it-on” awards program meaning that any women can apply for a gra[...]
