[UWAB] Invitation: Luncheon speaker for Friday is a 2006 Women of Color Technology Award Winner

[Biggers, Maureen Short]

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

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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

 

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From: Biggers, Maureen Short 
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:20 PM
To: Biggers, Maureen Short
Subject: PLEASE REPLY: Invitation to Grad Women at CC lunch with special
guest this Friday! 
Importance: High

 

Grad Women at 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 at CC

 

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Maureen Biggers

Assistant Dean for Diversity and Community

College of Computing

 

 

 

  

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