OCWIC 2009 Program
The 3rd Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC) will be held on Feburary 27-28, 2009 at the Mohican Resort and Conference Center, located near Perrysville, Ohio. Attendees will be women majoring in computing fields and enrolled in universities and colleges from all over Ohio.
The conference will be begin at 4:00PM on Friday February 27 and continues on Saturday February 28, 2009, ending at 2:00pm. The registration fee, which includes a (shared) room, dinner Friday night, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday is $175. However, through the generosity of our sponsors, we hope to be able to offer full scholarships to all women students who request them as part of registration.
- OCWIC 2009 Plenary Speakers -
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Dr. Tracy Camp, Professor of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines: Friday 4:15-5:15
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Dr. Camp's Bio: |
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| Dr. Tracy Camp is the Founder and Director of the Toilers (http://toilers.mines.edu), an active ad hoc networks research group currently consisting of four faculty members, 12 graduate students, and five undergraduate students. Her current research concerns (1) adaptive routing schemes for ad hoc networks, (2) interaction studies of cross-layer ad hoc network protocols, (3) the credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies, and (4) collision resolution protocols for wireless communications. Her articles have been cited over 2,500 times (per Google Scholar, as of June 2008).
Dr. Camp has received 13 grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award in 1997. This funding has produced 12 software packages that have been requested from (and shared with) more than 1300 researchers in 64 countries (as of June 2008). Dr. Camp is an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Senior Member, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In 2006, Dr. Camp was a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. In December 2007, Dr. Camp received the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award at the Colorado School of Mines, an award that has only been given five times between 1998-2007. Dr. Camp is currently the elected Treasurer of ACM's Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing (SIGMOBILE). Dr. Camp shares her life with Max (born in 2000), Emma (born in 2003), her stay-at-home husband (Glen), and two pets (a cat Scully and a dog Jessie). All six of them are vegetarians who tremendously enjoy living in the foothills of the Rockies. |
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Mary Bradford, CIO Aviation Systems Information Managment, GE Aviation. Friday 6:30-7:30
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Ms. Bradford's Bio: |
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| Mary Bradfor joined GE in 1985 and has held a number of significant IT project leadership and management roles delivering digitization solutions to the Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Sales and Marketing Divisions. Mary is a certified Master Black Belt and a 1999 graduate of the Experienced Information Management Program.
Mary was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She spends her free time with her husband Reid, nineteen-year-old son, and four dogs. They enjoy traveling, bike riding and boating. |
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Patty Morrison, former Executive VP and CIO of Motorola: Saturday Morning 9:45-11:00
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| Morrison’s most recent position was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Motorola. In this role, she oversaw all strategic, operational and financial aspects of the company's information technology architecture, systems, tools, processes and infrastructure. During her tenure, Motorola focused the IT portfolio on expansion of retail channel capability, enabled the transformation to a global single supply chain and successfully integrated many key acquisitions and divestitures. She built a world class IT team that contributed key innovations to growth of key businesses and Motorola products for the Enterprise.
Before joining Motorola in 2005, Morrison served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Office Depot, Inc., where she was responsible for managing Office Depot's global information systems, including its highly successful global e-commerce platform. Prior to Office Depot, Morrison served as CIO of The Quaker Oats Company in Chicago. As CIO, Morrison oversaw Quaker's systems integration with PepsiCo following Pepsi's acquisition of Quaker Oats in 2001. Prior to that, Morrison was CIO of GE Industrial Systems, a $6 billion division of General Electric. She began her career at Procter & Gamble, where she held a number of systems management and IT leadership positions. Morrison attended Miami University, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and statistics and a bachelor of science degree in secondary education. She serves on the boards of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, SPSS, Inc. and Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., where she chairs the board's governance committee. |
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