WEAR IT LIVE: FEMTECH: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (IWD) 2021 EDITION

Name: WEAR IT LIVE: FEMTECH: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (IWD) 2021 EDITION
Start: 2021-03-08T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-03-08T20:00:00+00:00

March 8, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

International Women’s Day is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. For IWD2021, Wear It Berlin GmbH is excited to dive into FemTech with female leaders in the wearable tech industry.

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Date:: March 8, 2021
Time:: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Category:: IWD
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Trailblazers in Computing : Karen Spärck Jones 💻✨

Every time you search online and find exactly what you need, you’re benefiting from the groundbreaking work of Karen Spärck Jones.

Long before modern search engines existed, this Cambridge professor pioneered research in information retrieval and natural language processing. Her development of inverse document frequency (IDF) became a core foundation for how search engines rank results today.

A recipient of major honors from Association for Computing Machinery and the British Computer Society, she was not only a brilliant researcher but also a powerful advocate for equality in tech — famously stating: “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

Discover her full story here: https://acmweurope.acm.org/trailblazers-in-computing-karen-sparck-jones/

#TrailblazersInComputing #WomenInTech #AI #SearchEngines #HistoryOfComputing

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Diversity” is often talked about - but how much of it is actually practiced?

In this blog, Ayesha Afzal reflects on how HPC systems thinking can offer a useful lens for understanding inclusion, visibility, and participation in computing communities.

👉 https://acmweurope.acm.org/is-diversity-in-hpc-still-just-a-buzzword/

#Diversity #Tech #InclusionMatters #WomenInSTEM

“Research Spotlights in Computing” is a technical blog series by ACM-W Europe volunteer Ayesha Afzal, highlighting contemporary work across computing research, with a focus on systems, tools, methods, and ideas developed by women in the field. This first blog anchors the series by introducing a ...

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