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SUMMARY:A Black Woman’s Sojourn in High Performance Computing: Recovering 
 Lost History
DESCRIPTION:Ruby Mendenhall (University of Illinois)\n\nIn 1797, Isabella 
 Bomfree was born a slave. She escaped to freedom in 1827 and changed her n
 ame to Sojourner Truth in 1843 to indicate that she would travel far and w
 ide to tell people what was right. She gave her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” 
 speech in 1851 to highlight the strengths and vulnerabilities of being Bla
 ck and a woman. Throughout history, Black women’s lived experiences have o
 ften been invisible and erased. Therefore, it is important to combat the e
 rasure of Black women and move toward a correction and claiming of their s
 pace within the digitized record. This presentation will discuss a study t
 hat employs latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) algorithms and comparative t
 ext mining to search 800,000 periodicals in JSTOR (Journal Storage) and Ha
 thiTrust from 1746 to 2014 to identify the types of conversations that eme
 rge about Black women's shared experience over time and the resulting know
 ledge that developed. This presentation will also discuss what attracted M
 endenhall to HPC, what she sees as the strengths of HPC and her plans for 
 future research which involves developing a data base with a cohort of 100
 ,000 Black women citizen scientists who will help to conduct and analyze l
 ongitudinal research based on their lived experiences.\n\nTag: Diversity, 
 Education, Hot Topics\n\nRegistration Category: Workshop Reg Pass\n\nSessi
 on Chairs: Toni Collis (Women in High Performance Computing); Weronika Fil
 inger (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC); University of Edinburgh
 , Scotland); and Misbah Mubarak (Amazon Web Services)\n\n
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