SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education (2019)
Scientific career
Fields
Evolutionary computation
Institutions
DePauw University
Gloria Townsend is an American computer scientist and professor in the department of Computer Science at DePauw University in Indiana. She is known for her work in evolutionary computation and her involvement with women in computing. She has served on the executive committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Council on Women in Computing. She is the author of One Hundred One Ideas for Small Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing.[1] In 2013, she received the Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Tucker Jr. Distinguished Career Award for notable contributions to DePauw through her commitments to students, teaching excellence, their chosen disciplines, and service to the university.[2]
In 2006, she organized several new regional celebrations of Women in Computing (WiC) to coincide with the international Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. In 2010, the United States National Science Foundation awarded funding to extend the celebrations to cover 12 regions as a joint effort by ACM-W, ABI, and NCWIT.,[3][4]
^Gloria Childress Townsend. "One Hundred One Ideas for Small Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing" (PDF). Women.acm.org. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
^"Profs. David Harvey & Gloria Townsend Honored with Tucker Distinguished Career Award". DePauw University. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
^Aspray, William (July 11, 2016). Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-24809-7.
^"The Grace Hopper Regional Consortium: A National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance". Computing Research News. Computing Research Association. November 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
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