Computing Research Association (CRA) Board Member Timothy M. Pinkston will be moderating a panel on “Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Computing Community” at this year’s co-located HPCA’21, PPoPP’21, CGO’21, and CC’21 conferences from 1:30 to 3 PM (EST) on March 3rd.
Panel Abstract: There is a movement occurring broadly across many scientific and engineering fields, including widely within our computing community, toward making tangible progress through intentional actions and interventions for advancing and valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion. There is also a movement toward dismantling structural and/or systemic factors—especially but not limited to racial and gender biases—that may be standing in the way of making much needed progress in advancing and valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion fully. Similar to those in other technical fields, we as a computing community are faced with the persistent key question: What more can and should be done? At this panel, which is broadly accessible to the larger computing community, this and other important questions will be discussed by a stellar set of world-renowned computing researchers who value diversity, equity, and inclusion. From this open and lively discussion, our hope is attendees will be better positioned to make measurable progress in bringing about continual, significant, and sustained change that shall enable gainful strides in further valuing diversity, equity and inclusion within our computing community.
Additional speakers include: two Turing Award winners, John Hennessy (former President of Stanford and current Chairman of Alphabet), and David Patterson (UC Berkeley Professor and Google Distinguished Engineer); Margaret Martonosi (NSF Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and inducted this year into the NAE); Bill Dally (NVIDIA Chief Scientist and former Stanford Professor, and NAE member); Natalie Enright Jerger (U. Toronto Professor and ACM’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair); and Kim Hazelwood (West Coast Head of Engineering at Facebook AI Research and CRA Board Member).
The panel session is free and open to the public. Please see this website to learn more and this website to register.
