Entries by Charna

Learning to Research, Part 1 Things to know

This blog is going to be a series of entries to help out PhD Students looking for help on how to do research. Specifically I will be focusing on Electrical Engineering and Digital Signal Processing for UCF students. I started writing notes for a friend and thought, why not blog it so anyone I know […]

January 10, 2012 by

Introduction and Hello to GHC Attendees

Hello readers interested in GHC 11! It is hard to believe another year has passed and I get to see all of you once again. This year is going to be the largest yet and I am so very excited to meet all the new attendees and attend all of the wonderful sessions. Let me […]

September 26, 2011 by

SWE Annual Conference

WE10 is coming up the first week of November, I found out that it was in Orlando in August which was much too late to properly apply to volunter but I signed up to be a standby volunteer anyway. Since I hadn’t heard anything in two months I figured I would not be needed, but […]

October 13, 2010 by

Friday Morning Welcome- Keynote: Barbara Liskov (MIT)

All photos from GHC are on this web site www.useventphotos.com What I would like to talk about regarding Barbara Liskovs talk has to do with one of the questions in the Q and A. What would you recommend as as a first language? She answered that there is not a good answer, Python is ok […]

October 8, 2010 by

Carol Bartz Keynote

Here are some impressive numbers on Yahoo! 600 million people come to them from around the world and they serve up 100 billion emails a month as well as 18 billion adds a day. Here are some key points from Carol on career and life. -Embrace change-Stand up for yourself-BE A LEADER dont wait for […]

October 8, 2010 by

CRA-W How do I build my professional network

First I would like to profile the speakers of this session and then discuss the interactive portions. Mary Czerwinski Microsoft ResearchMary, HCI for the future of computing, etc. Been at microsoft for 15-16yrs and she pulled it together from scratch. Got undergrad masters and phd in psychology. Got into studying the brain and was advised […]

September 30, 2010 by

CRA-W What’s it take to do great research?

Mary Jean Harrold – BS MS math, secondary, college math teacher, PhD CS, Georgia Tech now. Mary is a fast speaker but by the end I understand why. She was trying to pack years worth of advise into one session. With her kind and inspiring words I think many girls felt reassured that they are […]

September 30, 2010 by

CRA-W – How Do I Enjoy & Succeed in Graduate School?

Here are some personal profiles of the wonderful speakers in this session. Get to know them on this blog and then take some time to speak with them on their topics. Speakers:Elizabeth Mynatt Ga TechErika Poole Penn StateJane Prey Microsoft Research BethIndustry first then Academic. Researcher by day, toothfairy by night. Professor in Interactive computing, […]

September 29, 2010 by

Welcome: Lori Pollock, GHC Program Co-Chair

A view on the welcome speech: Lori Pollock spoke to us for 15 minutes this morning and her slides were very informative. I’m glad they had something occur 30 minutes before the sessions to get everyone downstairs and ready. She went over what we should be doing today emphasizing that it is a special day […]

September 29, 2010 by