Brought to you by the Women in Information Theory Society Quiz: Know Your Stats Brought to you by the Women in Information Theory Society
ITSOC: Know your Shannon Awardees At least two women have received the Shannon Award. True/False? False 1 (Katalin Marton 2013)
ITSOC: Know your Fellows At least one woman was elected an IEEE Fellow by the ITSOC by 2008. True or False? False
ITSOC: Know your Fellows There are at least 6 female ITSOC-nominated fellows since 2008. True or False? True 8 ~3 ITSOC nominated fellows/year
ITSOC: ITSOC Paper Awards At least 2 women have received the ITSOC Paper Award. True/False? False 125 male awardees
ITSOC: Com/IT-SOC Paper Awards Only 1 paper with female authors has received the joint ComSoc/ITSOC Paper Awards. True/False? False 3 over 17 years 5 women out of 64 total authors
ITSOC: Student Paper Awards Of the 82 total awardees of student best paper awards, five are female. True or False? False 3 out of 82 awardees (< 4%)
ITSOC: Presidents True The ITSOC has had presidents since 1955. The first female ITSOC president (Goldsmith) took office in 2009. True or False? True
https://www.itsoc.org/people/bog/boghistory/past- presidents ITSOC: Presidents Since 2008, we have had 4 female ITSOC Presidents (including 2018). True/False? False 3 (Effros, Medard, Erkip) Total of 5 (Soljanin) in 2019 https://www.itsoc.org/people/bog/boghistory/past- presidents
ITSOC: EiCs Since ITSOC’s inception in 1955, there have been 5 female EiCs. True or False? False
ITSOC: Know your AEs False 2 female AEs out of 29 Associate Editors are the primary IT Transactions gatekeepers. There were 4 women AEs by 2004? True/False? False 2 female AEs out of 29 First appointed in 1997 Second in 2001
There are 8 female AEs at present. True/False? ITSOC: Know Your AEs There are 8 female AEs at present. True/False? False 9/48 = 19%
ITSOC: Know your Board of Governors The Board of Governors plays a crucial role in managing the Society. There are at least 5 women of the 27 officers in the current ITSOC BoG. True/False? False – 7 2004: 4 women 2002 : 0
ITSOC: Distinguished Lecturers The Distinguished Lecturer Program enables talks by prominent IT researchers. Since its inception in 2010, 10 women (of 40) have been DLs. True/False? False 9 out of 40 2018-2019: 2/10 https://www.itsoc.org/resources/dlp/distinguished- lecturers
(Muriel, Andrea, Michelle, Ubli, Olgica, Sennur,?) ITSOC: ISIT TPC Chairs TPC Chairs are the key members enabling the technical program at ISITs. Over the 40+ years of ISIT, 10 women have been ISIT TPC Chairs. True/False? False < 7 (Muriel, Andrea, Michelle, Ubli, Olgica, Sennur,?)
ITSOC: ISIT TPC Members The TPC chairs cannot function without the TPC members (~100/year). ISIT 2017 TPC had 20% female representation. True/False? False 2017: 19/119 (16%) 2018: 20/154 (13%)
ITSOC: ISIT Plenary Speakers Plenary talks at ISIT make for amazing conferences. There was 1 female ISIT plenary speaker before 1995. True or False? False
ITSOC: ISIT Plenary Speakers By 2004, there were only two female ISIT plenary speakers. True/False? True 2 Daubechies (1995), Goldwasser (2002) https://www.itsoc.org/conferences/past- conferences/past-isit-speakers
ITSOC: ISIT Plenary Speakers Since 2004, there have been at least 10 female ISIT plenary speakers. True/False? False. 7 Daubechies (2014, 1995) https://www.itsoc.org/conferences/past- conferences/past-isit-speakers
ITSOC: ISIT Tutorial Presenters ISIT Tutorials are extremely popular. Overall, at least 15 tutorial presenters have been female. True/False? False < 10 2018: 1 2017: 3
ITSOC: North American IT School (NASIT) NASITs have enabled tremendous student learning and participation including via the Padovani lectureship. There has been at least two female Padovani lecturers since 2007. True or False? False 1 (Emina Soljanin)
Much to do “And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court], and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.” – Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 2018
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