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Speaker Series
The ATLAS Speaker Series brings distinguished visitors to the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society Institute at CU-Boulder. Speakers are selected to embody the ATLAS Institute's multidisciplinary concentration in technology, learning and society, and their talks span and combine technical, societal and digital art and media issues.
The ATLAS Speaker Series is supported by a
generous gift from ATLAS Institute Board member Dr.
Idit Harel Caperton, CEO and founder of MaMaMedia
Inc., and her daughter Anat Harel, a 2003 CU
graduate who was an ATLAS Technology, Arts and
Media student.
Jane Margolis, a social scientist who has worked to bridge the gender and minority gap in computer science and co-author of the widely acclaimed book, "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing," was the inaugural speaker in the series. Margolis is a researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Her talk was titled "Out of the Loop: Why So Few African-American, Latino/a and Female High School Students Are Learning Computer Science and What To Do About It," and it included references to her recent research in inner-city Los Angeles high schools.