NCWIT Aspirations Awards keynote, April 2013

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1. Computing At Your Age!?!?! What’s Next? Valerie Barr Union College April 5, 2013 Aspirations Awards Computing At Your Age!?!?!
2. First, a word about ACM-W ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field..... Computing At Your Age!?!?!
3. ACM-W is committed to .... .....building ACM .....women members of ACM and women in computing in general .....putting ourselves out of business! Computing At Your Age!?!?!
4. Primary Programs Scholarships Regional women in computing celebrations Chapters Athena Award Katherine Yelick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California Berkeley Speaking at Supercomputing 2013 Computing At Your Age!?!?!
5. I’m a dinosaur Computing At Your Age!?!?!
6. Or was it the dark ages? Computing At Your Age!?!?!
7. Or just high school in 1972? Computing At Your Age!?!?!
8. Or just high school in 1972? Computing At Your Age!?!?!
9. Context Two months before the first 8 bit microprocessor 300 instructions per second 16KB addressable memory could recognize all characters of the alphabet (letters and numbers) Before TCP/IP Before Ethernet Before Microsoft, Apple, personal computers, etc. etc. etc. Many problems to solve just so that we could “do” CS Computing At Your Age!?!?!
10. Where are we today? > 2,000,000,000 instructions per second (in a phone!) gobs of memory, for low cost need new encoding scheme to represent characters wireless neuroheadsets lots and lots of data Computing At Your Age!?!?!
11. Where are we today? > 2,000,000,000 instructions per second (in a phone!) gobs of memory, for low cost need new encoding scheme to represent characters wireless neuroheadsets lots and lots of data lots of problems and opportunities await Computing At Your Age!?!?!
12. Disease Spread Computing At Your Age!?!?!
13. TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas tissue samples from 24 different cancer types clinical information genomic characterization sequencing analysis of tumor genomes Computing At Your Age!?!?!
14. Pediatric Intensive Care Computer Science + Medicine based on sensor data from kids in ICU BIG data sets pattern discovery predict upcoming medical episodes Computing At Your Age!?!?!
15. Pollution in the Great Lakes Pollution Concentration Volume <Time> Inverse Flow flow rate Input Pollution pollution rate Computing At Your Age!?!?!
16. The Future of Rainforests Tropical Rainforest Area Tropical annual natural growing Tropical annual natural decay Tropical human annual consumption Loss of Tropical biodiversity <Time> Tropical annual grow rate 0 Tropical annual decay rate Initial tropical area ROC Tropical argriculture Tropical Others Tropical Logging Tropical Agriculture Tropical Construction Annual Logging Amazon Rainforest 1991 total area of Amazon Rainforest Logging rate based on Amazon ROC Tropical Construction Total Loss of Tropical Biodiversity Control over Logging rate Carbon in atmosphere terrestrial ocean surface marine photosynthesis terrestrial biosphere terrestrial respiration carbon dissolving evaporation deep ocean unwelling downwelling marine death soil plant death plant decay terrestrial photosynthesis fossil-fuel-d eposits reservoir fossil fuel emission change of fossil fuel emission CO2 conce ntration change of temperature <Time> f n c <Time> recovery rate: Logging Long term damage rate: Logging Recovery Rate for agriculture Computing At Your Age!?!?!
17. The Future of Water Computing At Your Age!?!?!
18. Something new every day! Just announced: new modeling study shows that if 75% of the population in Africa uses insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria can be eliminated! Computing At Your Age!?!?!
19. What about teaching Chemistry? iPad apps for Chemistry: Kinetics Atomic Emission Spectroscopy Thermodynamics VSEPR Computing At Your Age!?!?!
20. Plant Ecology many analytical tools and approaches apply to Plant Ecology Computing At Your Age!?!?!
21. or work that involves Fluid Mechanics Computational Fluid Dynamics Computing At Your Age!?!?!
22. NLP - work that is just now being done “Tom Rindflesch from the National Library of Medicine will talk about his group’s work building a system to help medical researchers keep up with the flood of current and historical articles published on PubMed” Tools under development to analyze tens of millions or hundreds of millions of documents Computing At Your Age!?!?!
23. What will Watson do next? And who will make Watson do those things???? Computing At Your Age!?!?!
24. What will Watson do next? And who will make Watson do those things???? It could be YOU! Computing At Your Age!?!?!
25. What comes after Watson? The problems you will identify and tackle!! Challenges and opportunities and uses of computing we can’t even imagine today!! Computing At Your Age!?!?!
26. The last thing.... DON’T FORGET TO UNPLUG NOW AND THEN! Computing At Your Age!?!?!