Laney Strange laneyd at gmail.com Computer scientist with a job in nonprofit tech, a side interest in science and policy, and an annoying but ugly dog. Blog

SUMMARY

Professional interests

• Developing software, tools, and resources that inspire users to collaborate with others, build what they love, and be surprised.
• Encouraging and supporting other women in math and computer science.
• Public policy and scientific research

Research interests

• Parallel computing, out-of-core algorithms, data mining, search.

Unprofessional interests

• The Boston Red Sox, the San Francisco Dolphin Club, the San Francisco Bike Coalition.

CURRENT POSITION

Product Manager, TechSoup Global

Policy and Leadership

• IEEE-USA Congressional Visit Day, 2010 & 2011
• Corresponding member, IEEE R&D Public Policy Committee.
• Working group chair, IEEE Standard 1517-2009 (Software Reuse Processes).

Women in Science

• Blog contributor, webgrrls.com.
• Reviewer, NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.
• Newsletter editor, San Francisco Association for Women in Science. Latest issue: Spring 2010.
• Webmaster, sfawis.com.

Mentoring

• Workshop presenter, Expanding Your Horizons San Francisco. 2009 & 2010.
• Volunteer, SFConnect. San Francisco, October 2008

Newsletter/Magazine articles

• Elena Strange. Expand Rural Internet Access. Open Forum Op-Ed, San Francisco Chronicle, March 5, 2010.
• Elena Strange. The Face of Computer Science. IEEE Potentials, September/October 2010.
• Letters to the editor: SF Chronicle, April 8, 2010. LA Times, January 30, 2010. SF Chronicle, November 20, 2009.
  (Oh yeah. Sooo counting these as publications.)
• Elena Strange. If Girls Facebook All the Time... Womenmakenews.com, December 9, 2009.
• Elena Strange. Why Aren't More Techies Women, Viewpoints Op-Ed. Sacramento Bee, November 29, 2009.
• Elena R. Strange. Long Live the .250 Hitter. ACM Ubiquity, Volume 9, Issue 44. December 9, 2008.

Articles in refereed conferences

• Priya Natarajan, Thomas H. Cormen, Elena Riccio Strange. Out-of-Core Distribution Sort in the FG Programming Environment.  Multithreaded Architectures and Applications (MTAAP 2010).
• Elena Riccio Davidson. The FG Programming Environment: Good and Good for You. 18th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2006). July 2006

Book chapters

• Thomas H. Cormen and Elena Riccio Davidson. Reducing the Effect of Latency in Parallel Programs Running on Clusters. CRC Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John Reif, editors. Chapma and Hall/CRC, 2007.

Standards

• IEEE Std 1517-2009. Software Reuse Processes. Published June 2010.

Blog

• Webgrrls.com. Weekly posts on technology policy and women in tech issues.

• Software Development Engineer, A9.com/Amazon.com. July 2007--August 2010.
• Research Engineer, H5 Technologies. August 2006--July 2007.
• Lecturer, Dartmouth College. Summer 2005

• IEEE
• AAAS
• AWIS

• Ph.D in Computer Science. Dartmouth College, 2006. 
• B.S. in Computer Science, magna cum laude. Simmons College, 2002. .\