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Speaker:
Margaret Burnett
Title:
Males and Females Developing Software: Are Programming Tools Getting in the Way?
Abstract:
Although there has been recent investigation into how to understand and ameliorate the low representation of females in computing, there has been little research into how the software environments themselves fit into the picture. This talk focuses on how programming environments and tools interact with gender differences. For example, what if females' problem-solving effectiveness as they develop software would accelerate if their software tools were changed to take gender differences into account? This talk reports the investigations my collaborators and I have conducted into whether and how software and its features affect males’ and females’ performance differently, and describes the beginnings of work on promising tool changes that help both male and female software developers across populations, ranging from end-user programmers to software professionals.
Bio:
Margaret Burnett is a Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University. Her current research focuses on end-user programming, end-user software engineering, information foraging theory as applied to software development, and gender issues in software development. She was the founding project director of the EUSES Consortium, a collaboration among Oregon State University, City University London, Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, Pennsylvania State University, STEM Academy, University of Cambridge, University of Nebraska, University of Washington, IBM, and National Instruments to help End Users Shape Effective Software (EUSES). Burnett's awards for her work include several Best Paper recognitions, IBM's International Faculty Award, and the NSF Young Investigator Award. She is currently Workshops Co-Chair for ACM/IEEE ICSE'13 (International Conference on Software Engineering), Papers Co-Chair for IEEE VLHCC'13 (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing), was Papers Co-Chair for ACM CHI'08, and serves regularly on a variety of HCI and Software Engineering conference program committees.
