The ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing took place in Tucson, Arizona from September 30-October 3. For those who attended the 1600-person, sold-out conference, it is difficult to believe gender equity in computer science is not right around the corner. Every year The Grace Hopper Celebration packs an astounding amount of talent and enthusiasm into a single conference. Keynote speakers Megan Smith, Vice President of New Business Development and General Manager of Google.Org, and Fran Berman, Vice President for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, illustrated what it means to lead in this information-centric world. Invited talks showcased research from top computer scientists. The […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for October 8th, 2009
