0. Calendar Manager Info:

        Date:   24 Jul 1996
        Start:  1600
        End:    1700
        What:   ANU DCS Seminar
		Chris Johnson
		What Was that WIT Workshop?		

1. Speaker: Chris Johnson
		ANU Department of Computer Science

2. Time:     4:00pm-5:00pm 17th July 1996 (Wednesday)

3. Place:    Seminar Room N101, Department of Computer Science
             Ground Floor, CSIT building, ANU

4. Title:   What Was that WIT Workshop?

5. Target Audience: undergraduate students and above

6. Abstract:

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at ANU holds
annual workshops to encourage women into tertiary studies and
professional careers, alternating between Engineering and Information
Technology year by year.  July 8-9 1996 was the occasion of the first
FEIT Women in Information Technology workshop - WIT.

The workshop activities aimed to excite and inform prospective IT
students from year 11 and 12 secondary level about some of the
practices and potential of IT.  The representative activities were
World Wide Web information retrieval, creation of home pages, an
introduction to graphical functional programming, computer mediated
communication in action, and problem solving in teams.  There were
also speakers and discussions on career experiences from women at
various stages in IT careers, all based in Canberra but with quite a
range of educational and professional histories.

This talk will summarise the aims, methods and outcomes of the workshop
activities from the perspective of one of the directed-anarchic group of
organisers.

7. Biography:
	
        Chris Johnson is an academic in Computer Science at ANU, with research
	interests in parallel computing environments and middleware and 
       	teaching interests in programming languages, parallel programming, and
	compilers.

8. Contact:
        For more information contact cwj[at]cs.anu.edu.au
	and see the workshop page at http://cs.anu.edu.au/wit.html