I met an awesome woman yesterday and she is giving a brown bag luncheon today in TSRB 132 - I ordered 10 extra lunches so any of you can go over to hear her and lunch is free. Take a friend even! Kelly Braun is a GT alum who went on to Duke to get her PhD and works in HCI type stuff for eBay and PayPal. You can learn a lot from her about the work environment, different jobs, etc. Here is more info - hope to see you there (I'm going over after my class). Kelly is currently the Senior Manager of PayPal's User Experience Research team. Kelly has been at eBay, Inc. since 1999 and has managed User Experience Research, Usability, UI and Content Management teams for the eBay Marketplace. Kelly has been involved in the HCI field for over 20 years as either a computer scientist or a cognitive psychologist. Kelly holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Duke. She has also worked for Bell-Northern Research, Nortel Networks and Oracle. In 2005, Kelly participated in a panel at CHI "Corporate Re-orgs: Poison or Catalyst to HCI", and co-authored papers at UPA "Visual Cluster Analysis and Fold Analysis: Methodologies for Quantitatively Analyzing Participatory Design Data" and HCII, "Designing the e-commerce User Experience for China". Kelly also contributed to the books, "Understanding Your Users: A practical guide to user requirements" by Courage & Baxter, 2004, and "Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself" by Braun, Gadney, et al. 2003. Kelly was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Georgia Tech student newspaper, The Technique. Have a great meeting - sorry I must miss due to class. I gave Laura my update on faculty responses to share with you. Maureen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maureen Biggers Assistant Dean for Diversity and Special Programs College of Computing, Georgia Tech 801 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 404.894.3181 (office) 404.385.0965 (fax)