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Women in Computer Science Workshop
March 19, 2008
TAU campus,
The
Cymbalista
Jewish Heritage
Center
Supported
by
The Mortimer and
Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies Marc Rich Foundation
Sun Microsystems
Organizing
Committee: Julia Kempe, Svetlana
Olonetsky
About
the Workshop
The TAU Women in
Computer Science (WOCS) Workshop is intended to bring together Israeli
female students in computer science and related fields. However, the
technical lectures are open to the general public, regardless of gender.
The rationale behind this workshop is that even though the number of female
students in these fields has been growing, there are still very few women
in leading academic and industrial positions. One problem with this
situation is that female students often do not have enough role models to
look up to.
The idea behind this workshop is to show that there are women in leadership
positions both in academic research and in industry. The workshop will
feature technical talks by leading women both in academia and industry, as
well as a panel discussion. The workshop will also bring together Israel's
female students, giving them a chance to meet. Opportunity for informal
interaction will be given over lunch.
The panel will be dedicated to the particular career challenges that women
computer scientists face. It will flash out the challenges (and how the
participants addressed these challenges) and will help attendees to address
similar challenges.
The main target audience are female students in computer science and
related fields at the graduate level. However, should space be available,
the invitation will be extended to women at the undergraduate level. The
technical lectures are open to the general public.
List
of confirmed speakers:
Orna Berry -
Chairperson, Israel Venture Association, Venture Partner, Gemini Israel
Funds
Sophie Cluet - Chief Scientist for
Information and Communication at the French Ministry of Science
Edith Cohen - Researcher, AT&T
Labs, NJ, USA
Dorit Dor
- VP for Product
Development, Checkpoint
Michal Geva - General Manager
of Sun Israel Development Center
Daphne Koller - Professor of Computer
Science, Stanford University, USA
Yoelle Maarek - Director
of Google Haifa Engineering Center
Hagit Messer–Yaron - Professor of Electrical
Engineering, Vice-President and Dean for Research and Development, Tel Aviv
University
Eva Tardos - Professor of Computer
Science and Department Chair, Cornell, USA
Orna
Berry
Chairperson, Israel Venture Association
Venture Partner, Gemini Israel Funds
Dr. Orna Berry
has spent over 25 years in science and technology industries, as an
academic researcher, entrepreneur, executive, policy maker and most
recently, venture capitalist. The Israel Venture Association, which she
chairs, is the organization representing the Israeli venture capital
community. Israeli Venture activity, started in the early 1990's with the
"Yozma Program", has grown to become the major source of
financing for start-up and early stage technology companies. With $10
billion in capital, Israeli VCs have played a major role in making Israel
an important global source of innovation. As a Venture Partner at Gemini,
Dr. Berry applies her expertise in the high-tech arena to assist and advise
Gemini portfolio companies. She is currently Chairperson of Prime Sense.
Orna is the outgoing Chief Scientist and Director of the Industrial R&D
Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Government of
Israel. Prior to that post, in 1993, Orna co-founded ORNET Data
Communication Technologies Ltd. and was there until its sale to Siemens in
1995. Orna has also served as the Chief Scientist of Fibronics, a senior
research engineer at IBM and UNISYS, and a consultant to Intel. She
received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern
California and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from Tel
Aviv and Haifa Universities.
Sophie
Cluet
Chief Scientist for Information and Communication at the French Ministry
of Science
Sophie Cluet's
career path is rather untypical. After several years dedicated to traveling
in Europe and Asia, she took up her studies in computer science in France.
She finished her PhD thesis work in 1991 at INRIA, the French research
center for Computer Science, and stayed on as an INRIA Researcher working
in the area of databases. She become the head of the project team in 1998.
In 2000 she, together with collegues, founded the spectacularly successful
start-up Xyleme, where she acted as head of R&D. In 2002 she become the
head of INRIA Roquencourt. Recently she has been appointed Chief Scientist
for Information and Communication at the French Ministry of Science.
Edith Cohen
Researcher,
AT&T Labs, NJ, USA
Dorit
Dor
VP for Product Development, Checkpoint
Dr. Dorit Dor is
the vice president of products for the hugely successful Check Point
Software Technologies. Her core responsibilities include leading the
company's research and development (R&D) and quality assurance (QA)
initiatives from the development stage to the delivery stage. Dorit Dor has
served in several pivotal roles in Check Point's R&D organization since
she had joined the company in 1995, and she has been instrumental to the
organization's growth and many successful product releases. Before joining
Check Point, Dorit Dor served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) managing various R&D teams. In 1993, she won the Israel National
Defense Prize. Dorit Dor holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degree in computer science
from Tel-Aviv University, in addition to graduating cum laude for her B.Sc.
degree. She has been published in several influential scientific journals
for her research on graph decomposition, median selection and geometric
pattern matching in d-dimensional space.
Michal
Geva
General
Manager of Sun Israel Development Center
Michal has over
20 years of experience in the high tech industry, in Israel and in the US.
She has assumed various management positions at the Sun Israel site, since
its foundation 10 years ago. She has been leading engineering and services
organizations.
Michal has a BSc in Computer Science, and a eMBA from Bar-Ilan University.
Daphne Koller
Professor of
Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
Yoelle Maarek
Director of Google
Haifa Engineering Center
Yoelle Maarek is the
Director of Google Haifa Engineering Center, in Israel, which she opened in
July 2006. The center is growing and is contributing to Google main
products. Prior to this, Yoelle had been with IBM Research since 1989. While
with IBM Research she held a series of technical and management appointments
first at the T.J. Watson Research in New York, USA, and then at the IBM
Haifa Research Lab in Israel until Feb 2006. Her two last positions were
Distinguished Engineer and Department Group Manager in the area of search
and collaboration. She graduated from the "Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
Chaussees" in Paris, France, and received her DEA (graduate degree) in
Computer Science from Paris VI University, both in 1985. She received her
PhD in Computer Science from the Technion, in Haifa, Israel, in 1989.
Hagit Messer–Yaron
Professor of
Electrical Engineering,
Vice-President and Dean for Research and Development, Tel Aviv University
Eva Tardos
Professor of
Computer Science and Department Chair, Cornell, USA
Participation and Registration:
Female graduate and undergraduate students interested in attending the
workshop are encouraged to register as soon as possible by sending their
name, department and university, and level of studies (PhD, Masters,
undergraduate) to tauwocs@gmail.com .
The number of places is limited.
Lunch and refreshments are free for all registered participants. We will
reimburse the cost of the tickets to travel to TAU (train or bus) for
students from universities outside Tel Aviv upon presentation of the
receipts.
The technical lectures are open to the general public (space permitting)
and both male and female faculty members and students are encouraged to
attend.
Tentative Program:
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8:45
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Gathering and coffee
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9:15
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Opening
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- Abraham Nitzan, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies,
TAU
- Zvi Galil, TAU President
- Amos Fiat, Department Chair, CS, TAU
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9:25 -
9:55
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Dorit Dor
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Securing your data
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9:55 - 10:40
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Daphne Koller
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Probabilistic
Models for Object Shape
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10:40 - 10:55
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Coffee break
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10:55 -
11:15
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Yoelle Maarek
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Search - from the Bible to the Mobile Days
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11:15 - 11:45
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Orna Berry
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Excellence
does not mean equality (ppt) |
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11:45 - 12:40
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Panel
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Preceded by an introduction "Women in Computer Science - Figures &
Policy in Israel and Europe"
by Hagit Messer Yaron (ppt)
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12:40 - 14:00
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Lunch
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14:00 - 14:30
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Sophie Cluet
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On life in academia
and elsewhere (ppt)
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14:30 - 15:15
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Hagit Messer-Yaron
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On
the use of Wireless Communication Networks for Environmental Monitoring
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15:15 - 15:45
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Michal Geva
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Virtualization -
Building a Dynamic Data Center
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15:45 - 16:00
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Coffee break
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16:00 - 16:45
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Eva Tardos
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Games in Networks
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16:45 - 17:30
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Edith Cohen
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Effective
summarization of massive data sets
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17:30 -
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Closing remarks
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Abstracts:
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Edith Cohen, “Effective
summarization of massive data sets”
Summarization is an
essential tool for management of massive data sets. It preserves, for
future use, the essence of data that is transient and too large to store
(Internet traffic), provides portability for distributed data that is too
large to transmit or store centrally (Web, p2p networks), and facilitates
faster computation of (approximate) queries. The effectiveness of summarization
depends on the efficiency of producing the summaries, their size, supported
queries, and the accuracy of summary-based estimates. We survey
applications and some recent techniques.
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Daphne Koller, “Probabilistic
Models for Object Shape”
Physical objects in a
given class often have a characteristic shape: we can all recognize a
giraffe or a coffee mug even from a simple line drawing. This talk describes a characterization of
object shape, both in 3D and in 2D, as a probabilistic model, and
demonstrates its application to problems in both vision and graphics. Our shape modeling framework encompasses
signification variation both of general object shape and of object
pose. We show how to learn this
model from a collection of unlabeled instances of object shape. We describe novel methods for key aspects
of this task, including: shape correspondence, where we map two shapes in
the same class to each other; automatic decomposition of a shape into its
articulated parts; and learning a probabilistic model for shape variation
in a class. We present applications of this framework to a variety of
tasks. In the context of graphics,
we show applications to shape completion and to shape synthesis from motion
capture data. In the context of
vision, we show how shape models can be used to precisely outline objects
in a cluttered image. We also show
how a semantically consistent shape model for an object class, learned from
an unlabeled set of object shapes, can be used, with only a handful of
labeled instances, to accurately answer semantic queries such as whether a
cheetah is running or whether an airplane is taking off. Thus, a more detailed model of object
shape can be used as a building block in semantic interpretation of the
physical world.
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Hagit Messer-Yaron, “On the use of
Wireless Communication Networks for Environmental Monitoring”
Electromagnetic waves
are known to be influenced by atmospheric conditions. Therefore, wireless
communications, in which electromagnetic signals carry the information, can
be used in environmental studies. In a recently published paper (Messer et
al., SCIENCE, 312 (5774): 713-713 MAY 5 2006), it has been demonstrated
that received signal level (RSL) measurements from fixed terrestrial
line-of-sight microwave links, deployed by cellular operators, can be used
to estimate space-time rainfall intensities . In this talk I present recent
real data results based on a rigorous algorithm which converts received
signal level measurements from a set microwave links in an arbitrary
geometry, lengths and frequencies into a two dimensional rain map. As such,
the great potential of using globally spread wireless communication systems
for accurate two dimensional rainfall monitoring is exploited
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Eva Tardos, “Games in Networks”
Network games play a
fundamental role in understanding behaviour in many domains, ranging from
communication networks through markets to social networks. Such networks
operate and evolve through interactions of large numbers of diverse
participants. In light of these competing forces, it is surprising how
efficient these networks are. It is an exciting challenge to understand the
operation and success of these networks in game theoretic terms: what
principles of interaction lead selfish participants to form such efficient
networks? In this talk we present a number of network formation and routing
games. We focus on a couple simple games that have been analyzed. One
measure we study is to quantify the degradation of quality of solution
caused by the selfish behavior of users, comparing the selfish outcome to a
centrally designed optimum, or comparing outcomes with different levels of
cooperation.
Contacts: tauwocs@gmail.com
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