Prof Dame Wendy Hall is one of the world’s leading computer scientists. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2008 UK New Year’s Honours list. She was head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science in the University of Southampton from 2002 to 2007. She was the first person from outside North America to be elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008. She was also President of the British Computer Society from 2003 to 2004.

And she is going to give a talk here in ECS targeted to women of our school on Monday 19th April at 5-6pm in Building 58 Room 1003.

Refreshments will be provided, so don’t miss out and come along!

For more info please email ecswomen [at] googlemail [dot] com

Please see below the call for abstracts for the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2010.

The Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one-day event organised by BCSWomen for female students of computing and IT. Although the day is primarily aimed at undergraduate students the event is also open to those studying on taught masters programmes. Each year it comprises a number of talks from industry and academia, a poster contest for students and, of course, social activities. Held previously in the University of Leeds, in 2010 it will be located in Cardiff University.

To enter the poster competition, simply submit a 250 word plain text abstract describing what your poster will be about. Posters may cover any topic within the field of computer science and/or interdisciplinary studies connected to computing or IT. The deadline has been EXTENDED till Friday 12th February 2010. There will be prizes for the best posters and the travel expenses will be covered. More information is provided at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2010 website.

It is a fantastic opportunity to show your work, meet some new people in the field and just have some fun, so do enter!