The Computer Science Women's Video Archive Project

The Computer Science Women's Video Archive project is proposed by Dr. Anita Borg and initially supported by the Computing Research Association. The ultimate goal is to produce video materials for students and professionals at many different levels and particularly to encourage young people to include computing among their career possibilities. The conference videos and the collected interviews from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC) will serve as the initial content of an archive on which to base future educational projects. These include

• A highlights video from the GHC for distribution to all computer science departments on the CRA's Forsythe List. Production of the video tape is funded by the Unisys Corporation. Distribution is tentatively funded by the Association for Computing Machinery.
• A women in CS lecture series initially including the technical, keynote and banquet speeches from the GHC. We are currently talking to University Video Communications and the National Technical University, among others, to determine the best way to distribute this series. We envision the series being available in most college libraries.
• A CD-ROM appropriate for distribution to high schools and junior high schools. In this CD-ROM, we hope to show the more personal side of women who have chosen computing as a profession. The short interview at GHC will be the basis for this project. To this end, the interview questions will in part be drawn from a list contributed by individuals who work with students and from high school and junior high school students themselves. Funding for the video taping at GHC is provided by sponsors of the conference. We have not yet explored funding for this portion of the project.

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