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There’s still time to register for the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, which will be held Oct. 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, under the theme “A Diversity of Scholars--A Tapestry of Discovery.” To date, more than 200 people have registered for this year’s conference, putting the 2005 meeting on track to be the most successful since the series began in 2001. “This year’s program of speakers, presentations, demonstrations, and networking activities is the largest, most diverse, and most interesting yet,” says Conference Chair Pamela J. Williams, a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. "This conference truly celebrates the technical contributions and career interests of diverse individuals in diverse computing fields." This year's dynamic speakers from industry, academia, and research include Mark E. Dean, IBM fellow and vice president of IBM's Almaden Research Center; Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center; Janice Cuny, program director of the Broadening Participating in Computing initiative at the National Science Foundation; and Thomas M. Guerrero, an assistant professor at the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. To register, go to: its Web site. For conference information, including a schedule and information on all the technical papers, panels, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and the doctoral consortium, see its Web site. The conference program also includes two days of technical presentations, a poster session featuring more than 20 research projects, and a number of panel discussions aimed at increasing the number and success of students from underrepresented groups in all areas of computing. The Tapia conference honors the contributions of Dr. Richard A. Tapia of Rice University to the growth of diversity in computing and related disciplines and is co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society, in cooperation with the Computing Research Association. The Tapia conference series enjoys the financial support of 25 academic, research and business organizations at several levels: * Platinum Supporter: the National Science Foundation (NSF). * Gold Supporter: the Rice-Houston Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program. * Silver Supporters: the Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) collaboration, Google, IBM Research, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Microsoft, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, the Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University, the University of California, Berkeley, UC Irvine. Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. * Bronze Supporters: Auburn University, Calit2 (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology), Department of Computer Science at Duke University, Hewlett-Packard, Indiana University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. * Contributors: the University of North Texas, the Computer Science Department and the College of Science at Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue University, the Computer Science Department at UI Urbana-Champaign, the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the University of California, San Diego. For more information about the different levels of support and the associated benefits, go to: its Web site. For full information on the conference, including a schedule and information on all the technical papers, panels, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and the doctoral consortium, see its Web site.