The Committee on the Status of Women in Computing is an action-oriented committee of the Computing Research Association with the goal of taking positive action to increase the number and success of women in the Computer Science and Engineering research pipeline. This paper describes CRA-Ws major programs and highlights some ...

Across North America, universities and colleges are facing a significant increase in enrollment in both undergraduate computer science (CS) courses and programs. The current enrollment surge has exceeded previous CS booms, and there is a general sense that the current growth in enrollment is substantially different from that of the ...

Networking Networking Women (N2Women) celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the fifth N2Women Workshop co-located with MobiCom 2016. Founded in 2006 by Tracy Camp and Wendi Heinzelman, N2Women is a discipline-specific community for researchers in the communications and networking field. The main goal of N2Women is to foster connections among the ...

Computer Science (CS) Unplugged activities have been deployed in many informal settings to present computing concepts in an engaging manner. To justify use in the classroom, however, it is critical for activities to have a strong educational component. For the past three years, we have been developing and refining a ...

Professional development (PD) has long been recognized as one of the key ingredients in K-12 CS Education, particularly when addressing the problem of underserved communities. Over the last decade, significant work has been done to create professional development and curricular offerings that are research based, with a proven track record. ...

Computer Science Unplugged activities have been shown to be successful in increasing student interest in computer science when used in outreach and after school events. There is less research available on adapting these extra-curricular activities for use in a classroom setting, where there are more students and the activities must ...

Recent advances in mobile and wireless technology have affected many areas of our lives, including the way we communicate, and how we interact and collaborate. Along with this, we have also witnessed a rapid increase in the mobility of people, thanks to faster transportation methods, simplified connections, and shorter commute ...

The main goal of this panel is to share survey data being collected on booming enrollments in computer science. Survey data are being collected from two source types: institutions and students. The institution data are being collected through both the CRA Taulbee Survey, which represents computer science departments in North ...

Mobile phone and social media communication are sometimes explored as viable sources of location information for human mobility research. To the best of our knowledge, however, no one has studied how location information obtained via these two event-based techniques compare to each other. In this paper, we present a comparative ...

This panel will discuss the enrollment boom, as well as potential effective practice strategies to respond to the increasing demand for computing education. Does the current enrollment "boom" represent the "third bubble", or is it here to stay? Is there a difference in what's happening at universities that offer Ph.D. ...

Our culture is currently paying a great deal of attention to issues of diversity in computing and technology. More specifically, society wonders why there are not more women involved in computing. Statistics on women's representation in all levels of the postsecondary academic pipeline, and in professions outside of the academy, ...

The demand for computing professionals continues to grow, while women and minorities remain severely underrepresented at all levels. This opening SIGCSE 2013 keynote asks the crucial question "What can WE do to change the face of computing?" Several answers to this question will be provided in an unusual format with ...

In May 2005, Jim Foley (Board Chair of the Computing Research Association) published an abstract that was titled with these words: "Computing, We Have a Problem …". The main purpose of Dr. Foley's article was to discuss the image problem within computing, that "the public does not fully understand, and ...

In addition to being realistic, a mobility model should be easy to understand and use. Unfortunately, most of the simple mobility models proposed thus far are not realistic and most of the realistic mobility models proposed thus far are not simple to use. The main contribution of this work is ...

Although professional networking is vital to career building, college-age students may not have acquired sufficient skills to network effectively. Several conferences, such as the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing and the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, now exist to counteract feelings of isolation and encourage ...