Join Us in Atlanta, GA for Tapia 2017!

Registration and the hotel room block are filling up quickly for Tapia 2017! We are expecting over 1,200 attendees to join us on September 20-23, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The regular registration rate ends on August 15th. 


This year Tapia has more professional development and technical sessions for attendees to attend! Check out our exciting conference program and our amazing  plenary speakers .

Looking for a job, an internship, graduate programs or build your network? Add your resume to our Tapia 2017 Resume Database to be contacted by our sponsors for new opportunities. 


CMD-IT ANNOUNCES 2017 RICHARD A. TAPIA AWARD WINNER MANUEL PEREZ QUINONES


Today, CMD-IT announced the recipient of the 2017 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing is Manuel Perez Quinones, Associate Dean, College of Computing and Informatics and Professor, Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The Richard A. Tapia Award is awarded annually to an individual who demonstrates significant leadership, commitment and contributions to diversifying computing.
 
"Manuel Perez Quinones has a long history of leadership with diversity and inclusion in computer science" said Valerie Taylor, CMD-IT Executive Director. "In addition to his excellent work in human-computer interaction, Manuel has created and led impactful programs for African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ, Native Americans, and women students in his role as an academic leader. Most recently he created a Corporate Mentoring Program at UNC Charlotte for women freshmen students, matching them with female corporate representatives. He continues to co-manage the Hispanics in Computing listserv that he founded, which has over 400 members. Manuel's work on increasing diversity in computer science has a profound impact on thousands of students, academics and industry professionals."

The Richard A. Tapia award will be presented at the 2017 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference. Themed "Diversity: Simply Smarter," the Tapia Conference will be held September 20-23 in Atlanta Georgia. The Tapia Conference is the premier venue to bring together students, faculty, researchers and professionals from all backgrounds and ethnicities in computing to promote and celebrate diversity in computing. The Tapia Conference is sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and presented by the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT).

For more information and to register for the Tapia Conference, visit www.tapiaconference.org .
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The Tapia Conferences are sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and presented by the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT).