Pradnya Ponders

The Google India Women in Engineering Award is entering it’s third edition. The goal of the award is to encourage, recognize and reward deserving female students in Computer Science, and to inspire them to contribute to technological advances. Cash prizes of Rs. 100000 will be awarded.

Female students pursuing Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science in an Indian institution are encouraged to apply. The applications are to be submitted by 31st Oct, 2009. More details can be found at the awards’ site.

This is an excellent opportunity for female students in CS. Please get the word out and encourage eligible candidates to apply.

This day today, 200 years ago, marked the arrival of Charles Darwin into this world. On this occasion, I’d like to recommend the following award winning documentary to readers: “The Genius of Charles Darwin” by Richard Dawkins. A very fascinating and very well done documentary..