Backed by Gates' investment company Pivotal Ventures, the Gender Equality in Tech program will partner with Florida International University to direct female students in search of a major toward technology studies.
Miami Inno - Melinda Gates-backed organization expands to Miami to bring more women into tech bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Breadcrumb Ambassador Circle Spotlight: Dr. Aidong Zhang, Dr. Hemant Purohit and Dr. Huzefa Rangwala
Dr. Hemant Purohit and Dr. HuzefaRangwala, both faculty at George Mason University, and Dr. Aidong Zhang at the University of Virginia share their experience working to host and bring the Association for Computing Machinery s Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining to Washington, DC. The conference is the premier international forum for data mining and machine learning researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government.
Dr. Purohit: I am researching the design of human-centered computing systems using data mining, machine learning and natural language processing for applications to public services, including responding to natural hazards and mitigating societal or manmade crises. I’m working to improve the public services capability for real-time information processing and management in the DC-metro region.
/PRNewswire/ Donna White has been selected to lead the DC site of Break Through Tech, a national initiative aimed at achieving gender equality in tech..
Cornell lecturer claims she was fired after suggesting Kamala Harris rose to VP only because of her mother s privileged Indian caste but she hasn t actually worked there since October
J. Khadijah Abdurahman said on Medium she was fired from her role as visiting lecturer and researcher at Cornell Tech by Associate Professor Tapan Parikh
She said she was fired last month following an argument that broke out online
Abdurahman admitted she had shared a GIF of Harris sipping tea to argue the VP was able to rise up the ranks because of her immense social privilege
She claimed she shared the image to call out South Asian anti-blackness and speak out against ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia