Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally recognition yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 in Montréal, Canada. From the ACM CHI website: Strong Ally – Recognizes individuals who have leveraged their professional expertise and institutional privilege to be a reliable ally and strategic partner advocating for the rights and full inclusion of people of marginalized identities. During her acceptance speech, Beth talked about three important things that she has learned. Foster impatience. Impatience that drives you to create opportunities for those around you to do the work our community wants and needs to do to create an inclusive future. Second, create […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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