InWIC 2006

February 3rd and 4th
Canyon Inn, McCormick's Creek State Park
Spencer, Indiana

InWIC Presenters: Pointing the Way Sign

ELISA BERTINO is professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and serves as Research Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Previously she was a faculty member at Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milan where she has been department chair and director of the DB&SEC laboratory. She has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in San Jose, at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, at Rutgers University, at Telcordia Technologies.

DIANE CURTIS is an Academic Developer Relations Manager at Microsoft. Diane graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science. She started at Microsoft as an intern on the .NET Framework. She worked as a Software Design Engineer in Test on .NET Client and later became a Program Manager on Windows Mobile and Safety Technologies. Diane recently joined the Academic Developer Relations team, and focuses her efforts on fostering student developer communities.


STACIE DEVINE graduated from IU Bloomington in Dec 2000 with three concentrations: Finance, BPM and International Studies. She was an active member of Delta Sigma Pi, holding multiple executive positions. In the summer of 2000, Stacie interned with Allegiance Healthcare in Waukegan, IL. Her internship centered on their enterprise resource package (ERP), SAP; she created and enhanced applications that were used within the Accounts Receivable department. With her knowledge of SAP from IU and her experiences from her internship, she was offered a position with Lilly's SAP implementation project. She worked on this project for 4 years holding various positions including ABAP developer for the Project Systems and HR modules, coordinator of HR development activities, leader for all HR and Valuation and Control (VC) development, and then finally Production Support Coordinator overseeing all development changes made in the production environment. In July 2005, she moved away from SAP, and took a new position within Lilly's Demand IT area. Currently, Stacie coordinates IT solutions that emerge from Six Sigma projects. This role has her touching a lot more technologies, and working with a broad range of Lilly's business processes. Her day-to-day tasks include: resource allocation, issue resolution, people management, improvements on processes and continuous communications regarding statuses and project updates.


LISA KACZMARCZYK is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in August 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin. Lisa's interdisciplinary dissertation research brought together the fields of computer science, psychology and education. Her research used an artificial neural network to model the effect of different pedagogical delivery methods on student learning. Prior to attending graduate school Lisa was an Instructor of Computer Science at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. At Chemeketa, she designed and taught most of the computer science transfer curriculum. Lisa has taught a computer literacy class in Spanish, and has worked extensively with a wide range of non-traditional students. Currently, she is teaching introductory computer science using innovative practices in pair programming and project development. Lisa is developing a new course for spring quarter that will introduce upper division computer science students to highly influential writings in computer science. Lisa is an active member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and of the Cognitive Science Society.


CANDICE REIMERS joined Google in August 2005. Working out of the Kirkland, WA office, she is responsible for recruiting software engineers and for working on programs and initiatives to support women into the engineering field. Prior to Google, Candice served as a High School Assistant Principal. She spent six years internationally working as a teacher and administrator. Candice holds a M.A. in Education Administration from Michigan State and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine.


KATIE A. SIEK is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University Bloomington. Her primary research interests are in human computer interaction, medical informatics, ubiquitous computing, and performance support systems. She is a National Physical Sciences Consortium fellow, a founding member of Indiana University's Women in Computing (WIC) group, and a former president of both WIC and the Computer Science Graduate Student Association. She holds a B.S. in computer science from Eckerd College and a M.S. in computer science from Indiana University.


AMANDA STEPHANO is a 3rd year graduate student in Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at Indiana Univeristy at Bloomington. She also holds B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her current research interests include HCI and Computer Security.


SUE WORKMAN is Director of User Support at Indiana University and is responsible for IT support to IU faculty, staff, and students on the IU Bloomington and IUPUI campuses, including six support and technology units. Her responsibilities with University Information Technology Services (UITS) include: front line support: delivered by the Support Center, the creator and host of the internationally renowned IU Knowledge Base, and the Telephone Call Center; second tier and departmental support, delivered by LSP Services and Telephone Consulting; and support tools, enterprise licensing agreements and distribution delivered by Support Software Engineering and Distribution. In addition to supporting IU, Sue's organization provides online support for the SAKAI open source course management initiative, the Global NOC, and the Teragrid.