SEEDS co-sponsored Distinguished Scholar, Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov |
On Nov 9, 2009, with Barbara Liskov from MIT, member of the National Academy of Engineering, who gave a research talk on "Security of Internet Storage."and led a mentoring event focused on junior faculty. |
Below read participant answers to the following questions.
- What was the most significant thing you learned today?
- Was this event useful to you, and if so, how?
- Was this event what you? Was it what you expected? Please elaborate.
- Did the networking portion of this event help you establish new contacts or gain new information?
- How might this event be improved in the future?
What was the most significant thing you learned today?
- You can change your career path in academia
- When Barbara Liskov talked about her academic career (teaching, research) it helped me reflect on my academic career
- Dr. Liskov has similar experiences as us as she progressed through academia
Was this event useful to you? Was it what you expected? Please elaborate.
- Yes
- Yes
- It was motivational.
- It is inspirational to see how other women in a field similar to your own have succeeded
- Yes it was useful and was what I expected
- Yes, very good to get to know the speaker in a less formal setting
Did the networking portion of this event help you establish new contacts or gain new information?
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- Yes, I got to know the graduate students a little better
How might this event be improved in the future?
- It would have been nice to have had more graduate females attend and also undergraduate female students
- Need to have more people participate
