The grad women are sponsoring a luncheon with an awesome woman who has requested that we invite our women and minority students to attend. It's tomorrow and you are all invited to attend! But you MUST RSVP by 3 PM today so we can order enough food (pasta bar). FYI, MiRC 102A is in the building next door to CoC - attached by a covered walkway that is right off the main lobby. Hope to hear from you! Maureen ________________________________ From: Biggers, Maureen Short Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:41 AM To: Biggers, Maureen Short Subject: Our luncheon speaker for Friday is a 2006 Women of Color Technology Award Winner Importance: High ...and her award category is "Research Leadership". She will be a great resource with good insights and advice! If I have not heard from you and you would like to attend, please reply by 3 PM today (Thursday). Cheers, Maureen ________________________________ From: Biggers, Maureen Short Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:20 PM To: Biggers, Maureen Short Subject: PLEASE REPLY: Invitation to Grad Women@CC lunch with special guest this Friday! Importance: High Grad Women@CC Luncheon set for this Friday (10/20) at 12:30 PM in MiRC 102A. Please join our Dr. Haesun Park and her guest, Dr. Anne Kao for an informal lunch and discussion and I need to know if you are attending so we can order enough food for the pasta bar, so please reply to this note if you can join us. Dr. Kao is giving a technical talk over here in the CCB building after lunch. The purpose of the lunch is to give you a chance to talk with her about her career path (she has a BA and PhD in philosophy and an MS in CS) interests, challenges, etc - whatever you bring up! Below is some background info on Dr. Kao - the topic of her technical talk will be Visual Analytics in Text Data Dr. Anne Kao is a Technical Fellow in Boeing Phantom Works. She joined Boeing in 1990, and has been leading projects in Text Mining, Text Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Management and High Performance Computing for 15 years. She led a cross functional team to develop a patented text mining technology TRUST (Text Representation Using Subspace Transformation). TRUST is the search engine inside Pacific Northwest National Lab's Starlight, an information visualization product used by many intelligence analysts. Dr. Kao has been a review panelist for the National Science Foundation's Information Technology Research initiative proposals. She was the chair and organizer for the panel discussion on Text Mining and Natural Language Processing at the ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Conference, 2004. The panel attracted an audience of 200-300 people. She guest edited an issue of SIGKDD Explorations in 2005 on the same topic. She recently edited a book "Natural Language Processing and Text Mining" for Springer which is due out first of 2007. She has also been a paper reviewer for SIGKDD, for the Society for Industry and Mathematics (SIAM) Text Mining Workshop, and for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Text Mining Workshop since 1999. In recent years, she has extended her interest into Integrated Mining and Information Visualization. She was co-chair and organizer for the Integrated Multimedia Data Mining Workshop at SIGKDD 2003 and 2004, and a paper reviewer for the Information Visualization Conference, 2004. Attached is the abstract of her presentation - in case some of you are interested in attending that too. I look forward to your quick reply. Cheers, Maureen Biggers Sponsored by Grad Women@CC ************************************************************************ ******* Maureen Biggers Assistant Dean for Diversity and Community College of Computing