iSGTW 07 November 2007

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Issue 49: iSGTW 07 November 2007

I’m being shadowed: voices from the GAP

Software engineer Maria Alandes Pradillo (center) takes high school students on a tour of CERN’s Computer Centre.

Eleven female staff from CERN’s IT department were kept under close surveillance yesterday, shadowed by female students from a local high school as part of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project.

The Shadowing Day is an EGEE Gender Action Plan initiative and aims to inspire young women into careers in information technology, passing on the message that careers in science are open to both men and women, and can be rewarding and fun.

Feature - Operations

“CIC-On-Duty”: smooth operations behind the scenes
How do you keep a grid as large as EGEE up and running? Hélène Cordier introduces “CIC-On-Duty.”

Feature - Security

Distributed security: keeping Open Science Grid closed to intruders
Head of OSG Security, Mine Altunay, discusses her focus for the second year of Open Science Grid.

Links of the week

Women in information technology
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