ACM-W


The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women. ACM-W is an active organization with over 36,000 members.
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Celebrations of Women in Computing

ACM-W sponsors annual celebrations focused on women in computing. ACM-W provides up to $3,000 seed funding for each celebration, and also raises and disburses corporate sponsorship. Each celebration organizing committee is responsible for additional fundraising within their conference area. ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to Association for Computing Machinery members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.
ACM-W Celebrations are regional conferences with global participants from industry, academia, and government. Celebration participation is growing and these events represent some of the largest gatherings of women in technology.
The original Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was recognized by the US White House on their page "The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology" in the entry for United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. In addition to this noteworthy beginning, the conferences have attracted the participation of technology notables including Anita Hill, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founder Priscilla Chan, and Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University, one of the top universities in Computer Science. The list describes the expansion of celebrations globally to include the largest gathering of women in computing in India.
ConferenceLocationTypically heldYear Established
ACM Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing CanadaAnnually in November2015

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womENcourageMadrid, Spain2024
womENcourageTrondheim, Norway2023
womENcourageLarnaka, Cyprus2022
womENcouragePrague, Czech Republic2021
womENcourageBaku, Azerbaijan2020
womENcourageRome, Italy2019
womENcourageBelgrade, Serbia2018
womENcourageBarcelona, Spain2017
womENcourageLinz, Austria2016
womENcourageUppsala University, Sweden2015
womENcourageManchester, United Kingdom2014

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AIWiCAhmedabad, Gujarat2015

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PHIWiCSkylight Convention Center, Puerto Princesa, Palawan2016

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CCWiC-Puerto RicoUniversity of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Puerto Rico2016

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Inspire 2020University of York, United Kingdom2020
Inspire 2019University of Kent, United Kingdom2019
Inspire 2018De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom2018
Inspire 2017University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom2017
Inspire 2015Imperial College, London, United Kingdom2015

ConferenceLocationTypically heldYear Established
Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Women in Computing Celebration Kansas City, Missouribiennial in November2011
Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing Denver, Coloradobiennial in Oct or Nov2008
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in ComputingUnited Statesannual in October2000

Chapters

ACM-W has nearly 200 active professional, virtual and student chapters globally. The professional chapters serve to enhance communications networks thereby providing resources and support for women in the workforce. The student chapters serve to increase recruitment and retention of women in computing fields at the university level and offer student activities and projects that aim to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing.

Awards

Starting in 2006, ACM-W has offered an annual Athena Lecturer Award to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science:
ACM-W also offers an ACM-W Networking Award for active student chapters.

Scholarships

ACM-W provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs to attend research conferences. The ACM-W scholarships are offered for both intra-continental conference travel, and intercontinental conference travel. Scholarship applications are evaluated in six groups each year, to distribute awards across a range of conferences, including many annual ACM special interest group conferences such as SIGACCESS, SIGACT, SIGAI, SIGARCH, SIGCOMM, SIGCHI, SIGCSE, SIGDA, SIGECOM, SIGEVO, SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGIR, SIGITE, SIGMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, and SIGSOFT.

Sponsors

Past sponsors of ACM-W services such as scholarships and regional celebrations include:

Newsletter

ACM-W publishes a monthly newsletter that highlights people, opportunities, accomplishments, and current issues associated with women in computing. The network wide newsletter was started in 2008 with regional newsletters also provided.

Officers

ACM-W officers include:
ACM-W regions and chairs are:
  • Rukiye Altin, Europe Chair
  • Heena Timani, India Chair
  • Monica McGill, North America
  • Jacqueline Tate, Asia Pacific
  • Hong Gao, China
ACM-W Standing Committees and Special Projects include:
  • Viviana Bono, ACM-W Scholarships
  • Pamela Wisniewski, ACM / ACM-W Awards Rising Star
  • Rachelle Hippler, Professional Chapters
  • Priya Chawla, Next Gen
ACM-W Communications Committee members:
  • Jennifer Goodall, ACM-W Connections Newsletter Editor