Diversity Activities • Co-founder and co-chair: CRAW Graduate Cohort (with Jan Cuny) • Founder and co-chair Graduate Cohort for Underrepresented Minorities and Disabled Persons • Speaker many times, CRAW Graduate Cohort and Graduate Cohort for Underrepresented Minorities/disabled • Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W), co-chair Diversity Awards • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, 2010 • Nico Habermann Award • Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, given by White House • Girl Scout Woman of Distinction for 2003 Invited Talks on diversity • Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2009 • WISE Distinguished Speaker, University of Delaware, 2008 Publications on diversity • Gender and Race in Predicting Achievement in Computer Science, S. Katz, J. Aronis, D. Allbritton, C. Wilson and M.L. Soffa, IEEE Technology and Society, Special Issue on Women and Minorities in Information Technology, Volume 22, 3, 20-27, 2003 • An Experiment to Identify Predictors of Achievement in an Introductory Computer Science Course, S. Katz, J. Aronis, D. Allbritton, C. Wilson and M.L. Soffa, ACM Conference on Computer Personnel Research, 2003. • Shortchanging the Future of Information Technology: The Untapped Resource, A. Balcita, D. Carver, M.L. Soffa, ACM SIGCSE Inroads, Special Issue on Women and Computing, June 2002. • Search for: News I received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the 50th Celebration of the Computer Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, 2017 for research, teaching and diversity
CS 4620 Compilers, Spring, 2018