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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
A Virtual Laboratory Model for Encouraging Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate students who perform research benefit greatly from the experience, yet achieving high levels of voluntary participation remains an elusive goal. This paper describes...
Thomas P. Way
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Women in CS and biology
Common departmental characteristics and practices in computer science and biology/life science are compared for 46 departments at 23 Virginia colleges and universities. The goal o...
Joanne McGrath Cohoon
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
aSister: scheduling for homeless women with special needs
Homeless women need special care and attention especially during pregnancy or while trying to overcome substance abuse. We present a solution to help counselors working with these...
Kshitij Gupta, Adwait Joshi, Jamie Allison McAtee,...
ICALT
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community
We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and inf...
Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Dejin Zhao, John M....
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Gender and information technology: implications of definitions
In this paper, we examine implications of definitions of information technology to women's participation in the industry and in academe. This paper is exploratory only, based...
Wendy L. Cukier, Denise Shortt, Irene Devine