Scholarship Support for Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Conferences

University Of Chicago, Chicago IL

Investigators

Abstract

The Association for Computing Machinery's Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing is one of the premier venues to acknowledge, promote and celebrate diversity in all parts of the computing field. This project will provide scholarships for the next three years of the conference. Scholarships will facilitate attendance of undergraduate and graduate students; faculty from minority-serving institutions will attend and participate in conference activities, and a Doctoral Consortium will provide PhD students with group and one-on-one interactions with leaders in the field of computing. The intellectual merit of this project is in the stimulating environment and knowledge provided by the excellent presentations and activities associated with the conference. The broader impact will consist largely in the connections made by the scholarship recipients with other attendees at the conference and with the entire breadth of the computer science field. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.