Tanya Jankot and I have started work on our next SEED pilot term.
The mentor matching
for the last three terms has gone very quickly so we are going to see
if it is possible to run five terms starting in 2006:
- January-June: Dublin, Grenoble, Hamburg, Prague participants
- March-September: St. Petersburg and Tel Aviv participants
- June-December: pilot term now in development (not yet announced)
- September 2006-September 2007: Recent Hire (regular world-wide term)*
- September 2006-March 2007: Established Staff (regular world-wide term)*
* to be announced in May 2006
I am putting together the Selection Commitee now. I have talked with the
excutives of the target group and drafted the term’s web page. Each pilot
term has its own web page to address its particularities. Each such
page has a “Reference” section with excellent advice from amazingly successful
and interesting people in science and technology. Some of my favorites:
- “Engineering a solution: Bring women into the fold” by Carol Bartz, CEO
of Autodesk and former Sun executive, The Mercury News, San Jose,
California, 24 March 2005 - The Mythical Man-Month / Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick
P. Brooks, 1995, Addison Wesley Longman; ISBN: 0201835959
“Things I Wish I Learned in Engineering School” by Rick Cattell, Sun
Distinguished Engineer (article by Janice J. Heiss, 22 October 2004)
Rick’s book web site- Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis, Allan
Fisher (former Dean of Undergraduate Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ.),
The MIT Press; 2003, ISBN: 0262632691 - “The Citizen Engineer”, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos delivered this commencement address to graduates of the University of California, Irvine, School of Engineering, on June 18, 2005.
- Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower (Scientific Survival Skills) by Cynthia Robbins-Roth, Academic Press, 2005, ISBN: 0125893760
- “The Unwritten Laws Of Engineering: Revised and Updated” (2001) Edited by: James G. Skakoon and W.J. King (ASME)
Available through:
http://www.asme.org/catalog/
“Technology and Courage” by Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow, Perspectives-96-1
(April 1996), Sun Labs (33 pages, PDF)- Edward Tufte
(Professor Emeritus at Yale University) on information design
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