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9 Jul 2010 12:59:39
Girls just wanna have fun – but there was a serious side to a trip to Wales for female Computer Science and Technology students from the University of Bedfordshire.
Five of them went to the BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium at Cardiff University, an annual one-day event open to all undergraduate and taught postgraduate women in computing and related disciplines across the UK and beyond.
With Google as this year’s main sponsor, it comprised a poster competition for students, speakers from industry and academia, and ended with a social event.
The students submitted proposals for their areas of interest in future developments in computing and each won a fully-funded place at the event hosted by the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff.
Bedfordshire students taking part were Katrina Cole and Wendy Lunnon, who produced a joint entry; Ruth Nakakande; Uzma Chaudhury; Rupinder Uppal; and Aushrat Quyyom. They presented their posters on Cyber terrorism, Multicore processing, e-Government and Privacy, Cyber bullying, and Access to e-Government respectively.
Dr Herbert Daly, a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, said: “This was a significant achievement as all our students have only recently begun their studies at level 0 or level one and secured their places despite competition from institutions UK wide with students up to Masters level.
“The preparation process was intense and they worked with Henrik Sarimo from the Department of Art and Design to design the posters around their original content.”
The annual event is named after Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who was the daughter of the famous poet, Lord Byron. She was a computing pioneer and often considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
Some of the talks presented by industry speakers included web analytics, the use of social media and the history of women in computing. The students were also able to question a panel of professional women, meet other women in IT, view (and judge) other posters by their fellow students, and find out about careers in IT.
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