College of Computer and
Information Science at
Northeastern University
Crew, Chris Lambert of Northeastern's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery,
and Tanya Cashorali of CISters, the college's organization for women in the computing and
information sciences.
acquired distinction is through
its student groups, which provide
campus, and prepare them for making an
impact in different industries during co-ops
and after graduation.
and information sciences. One look at the
group's Who We Are page and you'll get the
idea that these women think big: One wants
to be "the world's best strategic consultant
in technology"; another plans to be "the next
Bill Gates." Recently, CISters members have
completed prestigious co-ops at places like
IBM, EMC, Harvard Law School, and the
Harvard Center for Genetics and Genomics.
CCIS' 2006 Outstanding Research Award,
the performance of search engines
in Cambridge, England, where she's
currently the only woman out of more
than 30 interns--and helping pave the
students interested in computer science-
related careers," says CISters leader
Tanya Cashorali, '08, who adds that the
for freshman women and will continue
holding its regular lecture series. These
lectures draw distinguished women
in the industry, such as Irene Greif,
an IBM fellow who is head of Lotus
Development Corporation's Collaborative
User Experience Group, a team of Computer-
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
researchers located in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Greif founded the field
of CSCW and recently spoke to CISters
members on "Women in Computing."