Scholarships & Grants
ACM-W Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conference
ACM-W, with funding from Wipro Technologies, provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences. Exposure to the CS research world can be an important factor in encouraging a student to continue on to the next level (Undergraduate to Graduate, Masters to Ph.D., Ph.D. to an industry or academic position). The student does not have to present a paper at the conference she attends. As of 2011, twenty ACM-W/Wipro scholarships will be funded annually: ten scholarships of up to $600 will be awarded for intra-continental conference travel, and ten scholarships of up to $1200 will be awarded for intercontinental conference travel.
Please see http://women.acm.org/participate/scholarship/index.cfm for full details on eligibility and application process for this ACM-W scholarship.
Educators' Scholarships
SPLASH is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for educators from 2- and 4-year colleges and universities to participate in SPLASH 2010 and its Educators' and Trainers' Symposium. These scholarships are sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). Please see http://www.splashcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73:educators-scholarships&catid=46:due-august-15-2010&Itemid=65 for more information.
SIGPLAN Student Grants
Are you a student that is presenting or co-authoring a paper or poster at OOPSLA, but will not be able to attend the conference without financial assistance? If so, then SIGPLAN (the sponsor of OOPSLA) may be willing to provide financial support for you to attend OOPSLA. Please see http://sigplan.org/PAC.htm for full details on eligibility and application process for these SIGPLAN grants.
SIGPLAN Travel Grants
Are you a SIGPLAN member and would like to attend OOPSLA, but cannot because of prohibitive costs associated with:
- child care
- companion care-provider travel
- long distance international travel
If so, then SIGPLAN (the sponsor of OOPSLA) may be willing to provide financial support for you to attend OOPSLA. Please see http://sigplan.org/PAC.htm for full details on eligibility and application process for these and other grants for SIGPLAN members.



Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better because they introduce fewer bugs, the need to streamline to deploying process for short release cycles, and making the entire process faster every day.
