Welcome to SOSP Women’s Workshop

1. Welcome toSOSP Women’s Workshop October 13-14, 2007 Carla Ellis, Duke

2. Goals of the Workshop • Build a strong community of women researchers in systems • Providing networking opportunities • Encourage you to pursue systems research • Illustrating the exciting opportunities & challenges • Enhance your conference experience • Offering content to allow better appreciation of the technical talks • Developing skills to navigate the conference environment

3. Why a Women’s Workshop? • This SOSP is the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Systers electronic community. So this is a celebration! • Under-representation of women & minorities is even worse in operating systems than overall in computer science & engineering

4. Specialty Areas: PhDs in 2005 and 2006 Total % Female % Underrep’d Artificial Intelligence / Robotics 369 15.4 3.0 Database / Information Systems 253 23.7 4.3 Graphics / Human Interface 223 16.6 3.1 Hardware / Architecture 196 15.3 1.5 Numerical Analysis / Scientific Computing 77 24.7 2.6 Operating Systems / Networks 496 15.7 1.4 Programming Languages / Compilers 128 9.4 4.7 Software Engineering 221 18.1 2.3 Theory / Algorithms 212 17.0 0.9 Other / Unknown 387 14.7 3.6 Total 2562 16.6 2.7 Why a Women’s Workshop?

5. Dilma da Silva, IBM Cynthia Dwork, MSR Susan Eggers, UW Carla Ellis, Duke Rebecca Isaacs, MSR Kimberly Keeton,HP Labs Jinyang Li,NYU Barbara Liskov,MIT Margaret Martonosi,Princeton Sharon Perl,Google Liuba Shrira,Brandeis Yuanyuan Zhou,UIUC Introducing the Speakers

6. Thanks to our Supporters

7. Navigating a Conference • A conference is all about networking • Networking: • Systematically seeking out and becoming acquainted with people in the service of professional goals • Makes you more effective and more productive by providing feedback, new ideas, and new collaborations. • Makes you and your work better known. • Does not substitute for quality work.

8. Before the Conference • Prepare what you will talk about(write it down, practice) • “Elevator talk” (1-minute) • Why is it an interesting problem? • Why is it important? • Why is your solution unique? • Longer talk (3-minute) • Slant to different audiences (foreground/background)

9. Before the Conference (cont.) • Who will be there that you want to meet? • What do they look like? • Find a picture beforehand • Ask someone to point them out • What do you want to talk to them about? • Read their papers, write down questions • Ask why/how they started project, where they got the problem • Integrate your work and interests into conversation

10. At the Conference • Wear your badge visibly • Speak! (Don’t just stand there) • Use the dreaded microphone • Have discussions with speakers after their presentation • If you’re the speaker, hang around afterwards • Talk to the person sitting next to you

11. At the Conference (cont.) • Make lunch/dinner plans • Participate in hall talk • Attend social activities • Get your friends/adviser to introduce you • Get people you’ve just met to introduce you; introduce them • Talk to people who come up to you

12. At the Conference (cont.) • Make plans for FOLLOW UP • Write down the next step • Write down technical tips • Write down what you owe whom;what they owe you

13. At the Conference: Don’ts • Don’t hang around with your friends • Don’t interrupt heavy or private conversations • Don’t be overly negative/critical • Don’t hang on to a conversation too long • Don’t put too much stock in a single, short conversation • Don’t get discouraged

14. After the conference • FOLLOW UP!!!! • Send them your related papers, Ask for theirs • Actually read them! Send them comments • Share software and workloads • Do joint work together • Invite them to give a talk (* put them up at your place) • Ask to give a talk there (* as appropriate)

15. Homework Assignments • Tonight: Prepare your elevator talk • 3 sentence description of your interests: What is the topic/problem? Why is it interesting/important? What is your unique approach to a solution? • Tomorrow, you will be asked for it! • At end of workshop: Fill out the evaluation survey form. • Before SOSP begins: Identify a few conference attendees whom you will make an effort to meet.

16. My Story • Ph.D. from University of Washington (1979)(parallel algorithms for search trees). • Faculty positions at U. Oregon, U. Rochester, and Duke (finding better solutions to my 2-body problem each move). • My research evolved from large-scale multiprocessor OS to small-scale mobile devices. Energy conservation / sustainable computing is recent focus. • Seriously started building my network at SOSP 1987. • PCs, SIGOPS officer, TOCS EiC, CRA-W…

17. Acknowledgements & Thanks • These networking slides have been handed down via Jan Cuny, Susan Eggers, John Davis, Mary Jean Harrold, Kathryn McKinley, and Susan Owicki. • My many mentors (those who provided encouragement, advice, or opportunities at critical times in my career; mostly informal):Jean Loup Baer (advisor), Hank Levy, Barbara Liskov, Satya, Anita Borg, Jan Cuny, Mary Lou Soffa, Janie Irwin, Leah Jameson, Rachel Pottinger, Kelly Shaw, Duke’s Faculty Women’s Network.

18. Announcements • Shuttles to/from overflow hotels • What the “thank you” notes are for • Photo release forms

19. Questions?