Soliciting nominations for the 2003 Tapia Diversity in Computing Award

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:43:05 -0700
> From: Barbara Simons <simons () acm org>
> Subject: Soliciting nominations for the 2003 Tapia Diversity in Computing 
> Award
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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> Hi, Dave.  Could you please post this on your list.  Thanks.  Barbara
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> July 21, 2003
> CONTACT:   Portia Eley, Boston's Community Medical Group, Pme89 () hotmail com
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> DEADLINE NEARS FOR 2003 TAPIA DIVERSITY IN COMPUTING AWARD
> Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2003 Conference
> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/Tapia2003/
>
> Nominations are being sought for the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award 
> for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying 
> Computing.  This award recognizes an individual with outstanding 
> achievements in scientific scholarship, a strong civic presence within the 
> scientific community, and a dedication to the attainment of true ethnic 
> diversity in computing and related disciplines.  The ideal recipient will 
> be devoted to the principle of equity in both theory and practice, and 
> will have demonstrated leadership in applying creative solutions to the 
> difficult social, cultural, technical and political problems of 
> diversifying computing.
>
> The award will be given at the 2003 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity 
> in Computing conference, which will take place October 15-18, 2003 in 
> Atlanta, Georgia. The Tapia conference is a bi-annual event that provides 
> a unique forum at which researchers and students can come together to 
> share technical advances while honoring and celebrating diversity.
>
> Nominating letters for the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for 
> Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing should 
> include the following information:
>
> Nominee's name
> Nominee's affiliation
> A summary of the nominee's scientific contributions (300 words)
> A summary of the nominee's civic contributions (300 words)
> A summary of the nominee's leadership in diversifying computing (300 words):
> …and
> Nominator's name
> Nominator's affiliation, email address, and phone number
>
> The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2003. Nominations should be 
> emailed to Bryant York, Portland State University (york () cs pdx edu). A pdf 
> file as an email attachment is preferred.
>
> Researchers and students in computing and computational science are 
> encouraged to participate in this year's conference. The conference early 
> registration deadline is September 12, 2003.
>
> The conference honors the contributions of Richard A. Tapia of Rice 
> University to the growth of diversity in computing and related 
> disciplines. Tapia, an internationally acclaimed scientist, is a member of 
> the National Academy of Engineering, the first recipient of the Computing 
> Research Association's A. Nico Habermann Award for outstanding 
> contributions to aiding members of underrepresented groups within the 
> computing community, a member of the National Science Board, and recipient 
> of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and 
> Engineering Mentoring from President Clinton.
>
> The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2003 conference is 
> being planned by the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) - 
> http://www.cdc-computing.org -- whose mission is to increase the 
> visibility of people of color in computing research. CDC is a joint 
> organization of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the 
> Computing Research Association (CRA), and the IEEE Computer Society 
> (IEEE-CS). Tapia 2003 is sponsored by the ACM and CRA in cooperation with 
> IEEE-CS. It is supported by Silver Supporters ACM, AGEP Program at Rice 
> University, Microsoft, Inc., National Center for Supercomputing 
> Applications, National Computational Science Alliance, and HPCwire, 
> Gridtoday, and DSstar; Bronze Supporters AAAI, Argonne National Laboratory 
> - Mathematics and Computer Science Division, EOT-PACI, Lawrence Berkeley 
> Laboratory; and Contributors Portland State University and Ohio 
> Supercomputing Center.

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