Valerie Barr, Professor of Computer Science, Union College
Wednesday saw the opening of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It has been 15 years since Anita Borg and Telle Whitney launched the Hopper Conferences with a gathering of about 400 women computer scientists in Washington, DC. There are over 1600 attendees expected for this year's conference, showing, perhaps, both the increasing role of women in CS as well as the continuing need for a gathering of this kind.
There were a number of "pre-conference" sessions throughout the day. These included the PhD Forum, New Investigator presentations, and CRA-W mentoring sessions on work/life balance, networking and professional development, and the road to graduate school. The late afternoon saw many women gathered in informal groupings around the hotel, friends who have not seen each other since the last Hopper catching up, and people rediscovering graduate school buddies after several decades.
The evening reception included a poster session, which included some that were submitted under the ACM Student Research Competition. Among some of the interesting posters I saw (I certainly could not see all of them!) were these:
On Thursday the conference really gets underway with a keynote by Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development & General Manager, Google.org
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