WICSE

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WICSE is an organization for all women graduate students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of California in Berkeley.

We meet every Friday at noon for lunch, organize social and academic events, and maintain several ongoing projects, such as running a Big Sister mentoring program for new women grad students.

[The four women who worked on the first computer. L to R: Patsy Simmers, holding ENIAC board; Mrs. Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board; Mrs. Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board; Mrs. Norma Stec, holding BRLESC-I board. From the archive of Historic Computer Images.]

Recent and Upcoming...

Schedule for WICSE Friday luncheons
For a list of food places that deliver, see this page.
News
- March 5, 2008: McKay Lecture by Professor Deborah Estrin: "Wireless Sensing Systems: From ecosystems to human systems" Time and Location: 4-5pm HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall
- January 30-31, 2008: WICSE's 30th Anniversary Celebration
Upcoming Events
- September 4, 2008: Reception for EECS freshmen and new transfer women
  Moore Room Courtyard, 4-6PM
- September 10-11, 2008: The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology "TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision for Women of Color"
  Google, Mountain View
- September 16, 2008: Welcome Reception for all College of Engineering women students
  Hearst Mining Building Lobby, 4-5PM
- September 18, 2008: Seminar by Professor Angela Sasse: "Can using technology as a 'barrier' solve security problems?"
  540 Cory Hall, 4-5PM
- September 26, 2008: Undergraduate mentoring lunch, sponsored by Intel. Special presentation by Dr. Karen Lemay: "The School to Work Transition"
  380 Soda Hall, 12-1PM
- October 24, 2008: Weekly lunch sponsored by Google. Special presentation by Jason Bayer and Susan Kwok: "Building Relationships & Making Impact"
  380 Soda Hall, 12-1PM
- October 1-4, 2008: Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
  Keystone, CO
- October 5-7, 2008: Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position
  Rice University, Houston TX
Visitors
- Fall/Spring 07-08: McKay Visiting Professor Deborah Estrin
- Week of January 28, 2008: Computer Science Regents' Professor Fran Allen, Turing Award Winner 2007
  She will be giving a Regent's lecture on Jan 31: "The challenge of the multi cores: thick sequential, run parallel"
  Berkeleyan interview of Fran Allen can be found here
Conferences and Workshops
- October 1-4, 2008: Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
  Keystone, CO
- September 10-11, 2008: The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology "TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision for Women of Color"
  Google, Mountain View
- January 30-31, 2008: WICSE 30th Anniversary Celebration
  For agenda, please check out the official website here
  Register now at here
- October 17-20, 2007: Grace Hopper Celebration of Computing
  For more information, please check the conference website http://gracehopper.org/2007/
- October 14-16, 2007: "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" Workshop at Rice University
  For application information and flyer, please click here
- April 12, 2007: "Do Babies Matter?" By Dean Mason
  For details, please click here
- April 13, 2007: WICSE Guest speaker Dr. Leslie Field
  Click here for details
- March 7, 2007: CRA-W to Hold Career Mentoring Workshop at SIGCSE 2007
  For further information, please click here
- March 26-30, 2007: Green Technology Entrepreurship Academy at UC-Davis
  For further information on the conference and program brochure, please click here
Fellowship Opportunities
- AAUW Fellowships for Graduate Studies / Various Deadlines
- Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program /Deadline: Jan 12
- Google 2006 Antia Borg Scholarship / Deadline: Jan. 20
Please click here for more fellowship information
Previous Events

About Us

Members

Our officers

Current and recent Big Sister programs

To add or remove yourself from the mailing list, please email: ljaganna AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu

Local Resources

Academic

Advice on graduate school and advisors

Jobs and internships

Information on fellowships for women

How to set up a home page at Berkeley

Sheila Humphreys, staff resource for EECS women students. Sheila maintains a comprehensive list of programs for graduate women.

Carla Trujillo's Graduate Academic Diversity Program - useful information on applying to grad. school, graduate fellowships and much much more

AUWICSEE Association of Undergraduate Women CS and EE Students

Women Student Societies in other schools

UCB Women In Engineering Events Page

Living

Bay Area house hunting links

UCB Campus Safety Shuttle

UCB Night Escort Service

UCB Parents Network

EECS Department Parent Policy

Sexual Harassment: tips and resources

Papers and Projects

"Do Babies Matter?" presentation by Dean Mary Ann Mason on 4/12/2007.
Also see the orignal article and updates on "do baby matter" project on her website at here
as well as "The Parent Rap - a conversation with Mary Ann Mason on why babies matter" by Lisa Harrington from the 2007 Graduate

Survey run by some WICSE members for the panel at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002.
Also see the survey results and review.

Trip Report and notes: Engineering Education Scholar's Workshop, 2002. by Megan Thomas.

Ph.D. Student Attrition in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley by Linda Kamas, Caroline Paxon, Amy Wang and Ricki Blau (ps.gz | pdf | Appendix - ps.gz | Appendix - pdf)

A Six-Year Picture of Women Graduate Students in EECS by Janice Hudgings and Sheila Humphreys

Improving the Graduate School Environment for Women in Computer Science by Soheila Bana and Soha Hassoun

How the UCB CS Parents Room and the UCB Parents e-mailing list came to be by Ginger Ogle

Women in Computer Science - Why So Few? Who Makes It Through? by Huma Dar

Links: Women in Computing

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2000 and 2004

WITI - Women in Technology International, contains various resources to help women in technology in career and family, also have good links to other web sites involving women

Mentorships for students interested in careers in industry

Yale's TAP: The Ada Project, a large database of and about women in CS

List of Fellowships for women & minorities

Women's Wire: an interactive magazine for women

CSPR's Gender Page (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility)

Systers

ACM Committee on Women in Computing

CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research

Yahoo Index of Women's Studies

Career Development Center - for grads, postdocs and young faculty

Center for Women & Information Technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore Park

Extensive list of resources related to "Women and Computing" collected by Dr. Henderson of Butler University

Women Doctoral Graduates - EECS

Last updated 15 June 2007

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