Women and minorities in information technology

2008 Proceedings of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program: Users Group Conference - Solving the Hard Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 522-527

  Ross, Virginia Watson ^a   Thomas, Valerie B ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Office of the Secretary of Defense   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SOCIETIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCES; RAPID EXPANSIONS; UNDER-REPRESENTED MINORITIES;

PERSONNEL;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 63249085764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DoD.HPCMP.UGC.2008.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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