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Students Celebrate Diversity in Computing at Tapia Conference
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Top: A group of students from Georgia Tech with Dr. Tapia |
The 2011 Richard Tapia Conference for Minorities in Computer, held April 3-5 in San Francisco, was host to a well-represented group of students from the College of Computing. The event attracted over 500 attendees; Georgia Tech had one of the largest university group at the conference with around 20 individuals in attendance. Students were also invited to the pre-conference Empowering Leadership Alliance meeting, where they were able to personally converse with Doctor Tapia and attend additional talks by prominent minorities in the fields of science, technology, and math.
Highlights of the conference include presentations by Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Microsoft), co-creator of Photosynth, a favorite among computational photography students; Illya Hicks, associate professor in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University, who spoke of football and graph theory; and Patty Lopez (Intel), founding member of Latinas in Computing.
In addition to being one of the best represented universities at the conference, Georgia Tech was also a crowd favorite: a grad student's research won the People’s Choice Award at the ELA poster showcase.
See photos from the event on the College’s Flickr site.
