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Nominations Being Accepted for Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award; Annual Award Recognizes Individuals Who Have Helped Advance Women in EDA
Nominations Being Accepted for Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award; Annual Award Recognizes Individuals Who Have Helped Advance Women in EDA
Published 02-25-02
Submitted by Design Automation Conference
Nominations are now being accepted for the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Achievement Award, presented annually to the individual who has visibly helped advance women in EDA. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 1.
The award, named for the former organizer of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) Marie R. Pistilli, is open to females or males in industry or academia with either a technical or non-technical background. To be eligible, nominees should have a demonstrated commitment to the advancement of women in the EDA industry through mentoring or through creating opportunities.
Nomination forms are downloadable from the 39th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Web Site, located at: http://www.dac.com/39th/PDFs/wwork.pdf
The winner will be announced during the Workshop for Women in Design Automation (WWINDA), held yearly during DAC. This year's workshop is scheduled for Monday, June 10, from 1:15 -4 p.m. DAC will be held June 10-14, 2002, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
Former winners are Penny Herscher, chief executive officer of Simplex Solutions, Inc., and Deirdre Hanford, senior vice president of business market development at Synopsys Inc.
"This is an affirmation to the industry of the tremendous contributions of its women members and the progress we've made," remarks Jan Willis, chair of WWINDA and vice president of business development at Simplex Solutions.
DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 15,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the world, DAC includes more than 225 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE/CAS) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). For more information, including registration, visit the DAC Web site at www.dac.com, or contact DAC management at 1-800-321-4573.
