https://campus.acm.org/register/tapia03.
The conference features a keynote address by Warren Washington, chair
of the National Science Board, and a banquet address by Eloy
Rodriguez of Cornell University. Other highly acclaimed plenary
speakers include Peter Freeman, National Science Foundation; Jose
Munoz, National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE; Valerie Taylor,
Texas A&M University; and Margaret Wright, New York University.
The conference honors the contributions of Richard A. Tapia of Rice
University to the growth of diversity in computing and related
disciplines. 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 Platinum
Supporter the National Science Foundation; Silver Supporters ACM,
AGEP Program at Rice University, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft,
Inc., National Center for Supercomputing Applications, National
Computational Science Alliance, Sandia National Laboratories,
HPCWire, DSstar, and GridToday; and Bronze Supporters AAAI, Argonne
National Laboratory - Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
EOT-PACI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas A&M
University Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky Center
for Computational Sciences; and Contributors Georgia Institute of
Technology, Northeastern University, Portland State University,
Purdue University, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
Opportunities to support the
conference are still available by contacting Valerie Taylor, taylor@cs.tamu.edu or
Radha Nandkumar
radha@ncsa.uiuc.edu
