Empowering Leadership: Computing Scholars of Tomorrow Alliance
 
 

Dr. Juan Gilbert, Professor and Chair of the Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University discussed "Preparing for the Academic Job Market" in June 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_JG. PDF of ppt used during webinar.
 

Dr. Gilbert is a Professor and Chair of the Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University where he leads the Interaction and Information Lab. He has research projects in spoken language systems, advanced learning technologies, usability and accessibility, Ethnocomputing(Culturally Relevant Computing) and databases/data mining. He has published more than 100 articles, given more than 150 talks and obtained more than $13 million dollars in research funding. He was recently named one of the 50 most important African-Americans in Technology. He was also named a Speech Technology Luminary by Speech Technology Magazine and a national role model by  Minority Access Inc.  Read an interesting article about Dr. Gilbert’s early life at  http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2002_02_15/noDOI.9358385773676535184