I have spent the last few days reviewing drafts for submissions to the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing (“GHC”). Hopper will be held in Tucson, Arizona: September 30 –
October 3, 2009. Sun will again be a Platinum conference sponsor (thanks this year to
generous funding from the Women@Sun-West internal-to-Sun group). All conference
submissions are due tonight.
Not counting invited talks and presentations submitted by other
groups which include Sun staff, I think Sun will finish with about a dozen proposals
for panels, BOFs (Birds of a Feather discussion topics), posters, presentations, and
workshops on topics including:
- Creating an open online community for student developers (BOF)
- Designing for the 100+ Year Archive (Presentation)
- Dual-Career-Couple Problem (BOF)
- From Spec. to Silicon: Successful Validation of a Server-class SoC Microprocessor (Presentation)
- How environmental and economic factors are changing manufacturing and
supply chain designs (Panel) - Leveraging the Power of Your Women’s Network (Panel)
- More Than Just Coding: Alternate Careers in Computing (Panel)
- Open Source Community Development (Panel)
- The Value of Awards & How to Get Them this is my own panel!
- Women and the Flat Connected World (Panel)
I have also reviewed two Hopper submissions by my
daughter Jessica:
- Playing with Alice After School (Workshop)
Poetry and Prose Performances Project – p4 (Poster)
Jessica has already been on a Hopper panel (GHC 2007’s “Girl Geeks”), and she
presented the poster
“How to Combat Plagiarism in Academia (and How Not To)”
at GHC 2008.
GHC 2009 selection decisions will be announced on 18 May 2009.
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