REMINDER: Upcoming Women in Computer Science Guest Speakers: Sukyoung Ryu and Sowmini Varadhan

Sukyoung Ryu of Sun Microsystems will be visiting the Women in
Computer Science this Wednesday at 1:30pm. All are welcome. To attend,
please RSVP with wics at cs.uml.edu

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The Women in Computer Science group is very proud to host two members
of Sun Microsystems this month, Sukyoung Ryu and Sowmini Varadhan.
Sukyoung will visit us at our next meeting on Wednesday, April 16th at
1:30pm. Sowminin will visit us at our following meeting on Wednesday,
April 30th at 1:30pm. Please assume the location to be Olsen Hall
Computer Science Library (219A) -- unless we have a lot of people show
interest and I will select another venue in Olsen Hall.

Sukyoung is a member of the Programming Language Research Group at Sun
Labs. She received her Ph.D. in CS from KAIST, Korea and is the proud
mom of two daughters. She attended the Grace Hopper conference last
year and was deeply impressed by all the efforts for encouraging women
in computing. Sukyoung will share her experience with the Grace
Hopper conference with us.

Sowmini is a Staff Engineer at Sun, worked in (Sun and elswhere)
Kernel/Networking for the last 10 years. She received her Phd in CS
from the University of Tennessee in 1995.

Please RSVP with wics at cs.uml.edu for lunch.

Thanks,
Kate Tsui
WiCS Coordinator
http://www.cs.uml.edu/wics

Guest Speaker: Betty Yang

Our very own Betty Yang will be sharing the details of her recent CRA-W workshop trip with us on March 26.

Ashely Gross, iRobot, Postponed

Due to inclement weather, UMass Lowell closed to Monday, December 3rd. Thus we will reschedule with Ashley for Spring 2008. Join us then!

Guest Speaker: Ashley Gross, iRobot

Join Ashley Gross for a casual conversation over a light dinner on Monday, December 3rd at 4pm. Location to be announced. RSVP with wics @ cs dot uml dot edu.

Bio: Ashley Gross
Past and Present Projects:

* Aware2.0 software architecture (at iRobot)
* Robot autonomous exploration and mapping (at Carnegie Mellon University)
* Surgical robotics (at Carnegie Mellon University)

Areas of Interest:

* Elder care robots
* Combat casualty care robots
* Disaster response robots