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Vidya Setlur Principal Research Scientist at Nokia since 2005. Graduated from Northwestern University with a Ph.D. in computer graphics. Research interests visual interfaces, semantic graphics and visualization Hobbies classical Indian dance, cooking, gardening and interior design Happily married with two young boys

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Choose your priorities At any given moment, you may not find the optimal balance and thats ok. Create a to-do list with roughly equal number of professional and personal goals Reward yourself for goals met Exercise and de-stress Try to make the best of the situation Watch Randy Pauschs Time Management Lecture on YouTube

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Daphne Koller work Grew up in Israel BSc and MSc at Hebrew University, PhD at Stanford, Postdoc at Berkeley Assistant, Associate, Full Professor at Stanford University Research in machine learning, vision, probabilistic models, bioinformatics

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Daphne Koller Life Husband of 20 years: engineer, entrepeneur, VC Daughters, 6 & 8

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Daphnes tips from the trenches Choose a supportive partner Spend time with your kids: you wont have many years to do that Take time for things that are important to you (vacations, exercise, reading) Delegate, at work and at home: Its OK to get (and pay for) help! Fight perfectionism Reduce wasted time David Allens Getting things done Just say no

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Fatma Mili who am I? 25 years in Academia, most of it OU (Michigan), Professor, Associate Dean, Chair Formal Methods in Computing, Distributed Computing, Gaming in Education Broadening participation in computing an important component of everything I do Husband of 26 years, 20-year old daughter and 17-year old son. Grew up in Tunisia; studied in Tunisia and France

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Fatmas tips from the trenches Do what you enjoy; enjoy what you do. No matter how busy, reserve some time to take care of yourself and enjoy some selfish activity. Nurture and diversify your relationships at work. You often have much more impact on others than you think.

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Susanne Hambrusch Grew up in Vienna, Austria Dipl. Ing. from Technical University of Vienna Ph.D. from Penn State (all degrees in CS) Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Purdue University Research in algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, query processing, computer science education Department Head 2002-2007 currently on leave at NSF (CCFs Division Director)

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Susanne Married to a computer scientist (professor in the same department) Two children (now 18 and 23)

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Choose what to spend your time on Build your career and enjoy what you are doing Learn to say no (Let me think if I have time to this) and to accept what matters to you Departmental committee, NSF panel, referee request, student emergency, helping out Dont be afraid to negotiate Have your priority list and revise it Document what you do Let some things slide

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Have a life Enjoy your family Have a backup system sick kids, snow days, elder care, etc unexpected work load Hire people to do tasks you dont enjoy Housework, yard work Make time for friends, time for yourself Take care of your health Ask for help

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Robin Jeffries who am I? HCI researcher/practitioner Academic research (CMU), industry research (HP), practice (Sun, Google) Grew up on a farm in Iowa PhD, married to a PhD in physics (for 40+ years) Two grown sons

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What child rearing looks like from the other side

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Robins tips from the trenches Take charge of your career no one else will. 2-body problems (whose job do we pursue?) will work out in ways you dont expect. What seems like a big problem today may resolve itself wait before acting. Make some family things sacred (for us it was dinner together). Children are only 20ish years of your life. Your partner and your work are part of you longer.