Gloria Townsend Explained

Birth Name:	Gloria Childress Townsend
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Evolutionary computation
Workplaces:	DePauw University
Alma Mater:	Indiana University
Known For:	Work in the field of evolutionary computation
Awards:	SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education (2019)

Gloria Townsend is an American computer scientist and professor in the department of Computer Science at DePauw University in Indiana. She is recognized for her work in evolutionary computation and her dedication to promoting women in computing. She has served on the executive committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Council on Women in Computing. She is the author of One Hundred One Ideas for Small Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing.^[1] In 2013, she received the Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Tucker Jr. Distinguished Career Award for her notable contributions to DePauw, including her commitments to students, teaching excellence, her chosen discipline, and service to the university.^[2]

In 2006, she organized several new regional celebrations of Women in Computing (WiC) to coincide with the international Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. In 2010, the United States National Science Foundation awarded funding to expand the celebrations to cover 12 regions as a joint effort by ACM-W, ABI, and NCWIT.,^{[3] [4]}

Publications

• 1998. Turning liabilities into assets in a general education course, SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Pages 58–62, ACM New York, NY, USA, 1998.
• 2002. People who make a difference: mentors and role models, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing Homepage archive, Volume 34 Issue 2, Pages 57–61, ACM New York, NY, USA, June 2002.
• 2007. Leveling the CS1 playing field, SIGCSE '07 Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Pages 331–335, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2007.

See also

• Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W)

External links

• Gloria Townsend Professor of Computer Science, DePauw
• ACM-W Profile
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Notes and References

1. Web site: One Hundred One Ideas for Small Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing . Gloria Childress Townsend . Women.acm.org . 2016-03-28.
2. Web site: Profs. David Harvey & Gloria Townsend Honored with Tucker Distinguished Career Award. DePauw University. 21 March 2016.
3. Book: Aspray. William. Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study. July 11, 2016. Springer International Publishing. Switzerland. 978-3-319-24809-7.
4. Web site: The Grace Hopper Regional Consortium: A National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance. Computing Research News. November 2012 . Computing Research Association. 15 June 2017.