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Introduction
At Google, we recognize the importance of education to our research
and engineering activities. As part of the 2007 Google Faculty Summit,
we hosted a group of educators at a Google Education Summit. The
presentations from the Google Education Summit are available below
(under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License).
Panel: Addressing enrollment declines and increasing participation by underrepresented groups in CS
Moderator: Maggie Johnson, Google
Panelists and presentations:
Panel: How can academia and industry work together to address educational issues
Moderator: Jeff Walz, Google
Panelists and presentations:
Speaker Biographies
- Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is winner of several teaching awards, including the IEEE's Booth Education Award, cited for his contributions to the teaching of undergraduate computer science.
Abelson's research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory focuses on "amorphous computing," an effort to create programming technologies that can harness the power of the new computing substrates emerging from advances in microfabrication and molecular biology. He is also engaged in the interaction of law, policy, and technology as they relate to societal tensions sparked by the growth of the Internet, and he is active in projects at MIT and elsewhere to help bolster our intellectual commons. He is co-director of the MIT-Microsoft Research Alliance in educational technology and co-head of MIT's Council on Educational Technology, which oversees MIT's educational technology strategy.
Abelson is a founding director of the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, and Public Knowledge. He also serves as consultant to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
- Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Blum received her Ph.D. in mathematics from M.I.T. in 1968. She then went to UC Berkeley as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics. In 1973 she joined the faculty of Mills College where in 1974 she founded the Mathematics and Computer Science Department (serving as its Head or co-Head for 13 years). In 1979 she was awarded the first Letts-Villard Chair at Mills. In 1988 Blum joined the Theory Group of the newly formed International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley. From 1992 to 1996 she also served as Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley. In the fall of 1999, Blum joined the faculty of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is co-Director on the NSF-ITR ALADDIN Center for ALgorithm ADaptation Dissemination and INtegration. The primary goal of ALADDIN is to improve the process of incorporating powerful algorithms into application domains.
Blum is well known for her work in increasing the participation of girls and women in mathematics and scientific fields. She was instrumental in founding the Association for Women in Mathematics (serving as its President from 1975 to 1978), the Math/Science Network and its Expanding Your Horizons conferences for high school girls (serving as co-Director from 1975 to 1981) and served as co-PI for the Mills Summer Mathematics Institute for undergraduate women. At Carnegie Mellon she has been faculty advisor to the Women@SCS and a member of the President's Diversity Advisory Council.
In 1979 Blum was elected Fellow of the AAAS. In June 1999, on the 25th anniversary of the founding the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mills College, she was awarded Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.
- Lillian (Boots) Cassel
Boots Cassel is Professor of Computing Sciences and Director of the Graduate Programs (MS level in Computer Science and Software Engineering) at Villanova University. She is a member of the ACM Education Board, past chair of ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education), and past chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. She has also previously served as a program officer for computing in the Division of Undergraduate Education at NSF. Her research interests are in Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval. Her current special project involves leading the production of an ontology of all computing topics, with funding from the National Science Foundation and ACM.
- Judy Cushing
Judy Cushing came to The Evergreen State College in 1983 to teach computer science and software engineering, after working 11 years as a software developer for large companies (IBM and TI), universities (Cornell, UTHSCD, and Bordeaux), and two small startups. With generous grants from the Boeing Corp. and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, she took a 4-year leave from Evergreen for graduate school at the Oregon Graduate Institute and in 1992 received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering.
Since returning to Evergreen, and to teaching software engineering and broadening the computer curriculum, she has remained active in scientific database and digital government research communities, and worked on projects ranging from that in medical, hospital, and epidemiological systems, computational ab initio chemistry, molecular biology, and now ecology. Her research objectives are to improve information technology for scientists and natural resource managers, and to enable end-user programming for ecologists.
In addition to her Ph.D., she holds a B.A. in math and philosophy from The College of William and Mary, and an M.A. in philosophy from Brown University.
- Alan Eustace
Alan Eustace is Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering and Research where he is responsible for all aspects of the company's product research and development activities. He joined Google in the summer of 2002. Prior to Google, Alan spent 15 years at Digital/Compaq/HP's Western Research Laboratory where he worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects, including the MicroTitan Floating Point unit, BIPS – the fastest microprocessor of its era. Alan also worked with Amitabh Srivastava on ATOM, a binary code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis tools. These tools had a profound influence on the design of the EV5, EV6, and EV7 chip designs. Alan was promoted to Director of the Western Research Laboratory in 1999. WRL had active projects in pocket computing, chip multi-processors, power and energy management, internet performance, and frequency and voltage scaling.
In addition to directing Google's engineering efforts, Alan is actively involved in a number of Google's community-related activities such as The Second Harvest Food Bank and the Anita Borg Scholarship Fund. Alan is an author of 9 publications and holds 10 patents. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Central Florida.
- Edward A. Fox
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of Computer Science. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. He has been (co)PI on about 100 research and development projects. In addition to his courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught about 70 tutorials in about 25 countries. He has given about 60 keynote/banquet/international invited/distinguished speaker presentations, about 140 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 250 additional presentations.
For the Association for Computing Machinery he was founder and co-editor-in-chief for the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, is a member of the editorial boards for ACM Transactions on Information Systems and ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, and was General Chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries '2001. Earlier, he served 1988-91 as a member of the Publications Board and as editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products (responsible for the broad area of electronic publishing including online, CD-ROM, hypertext, interactive multimedia, and developing an electronic library). He also served from 1987-95 as vice chair and then chair of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, from 1992-94 as founder and chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Multimedia series of conferences, and from 1995-1998 as founder and chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Digital Libraries series of conferences. He served as Program Chair for ACM DL'99, ACM DL'96, and ACM SIGIR'95 - and co-chair for CIKM 2006 and ICADL 2005. He serves at Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He has co-authored/edited 13 books, 83 journal/magazine articles, 37 book chapters, and many reports.
- Phokion Kolaitis
Phokion Kolaitis joined IBM Research in June 2004 as Manager of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Group (aka the Theory Group) at the Almaden Research Center. Prior to this, he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also served as chair of the Computer Science Department from 1997 to 2001. He has held a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago and visiting positions at UCLA and Stanford University.
He has chaired the program committees of both the Annual ACM symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) and the Annual IEEE symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). From 2003 to 2006, He served as General Chair of the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). At present, He is serving a two-year term as General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, and was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2005 for contributions to logic in computer science.
His research interests include logic in computer science, database theory, and computational complexity.
- Jane Prey
Dr. Jane Prey is an Academic Innovation Manager at Microsoft Research. She spent 11 years as a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. In addition, Jane spent 2 years as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Jane is an IEEE CS representative and the chair of the FIE Steering Committee as well as a former member of the ACM SIGCSE board.
- Mehran Sahami
Mehran Sahami joined Google in 2002, where he is currently a Senior Research Scientist. His research interests include information retrieval on the web, data mining, and computer science education. Prior to Google, Mehran was also involved in a number of commercial and research projects at Epiphany, Xerox PARC, and Microsoft Research. He received hi BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Mehran has published over 30 technical papers, is a frequent invited speaker at national and international conferences, and has numerous patents pending.
From 2001 to 2006, Mehran also taught in the CS department at Stanford, and will soon be rejoining the faculty there as an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education.
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