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Grace Hopper Celebration
of Women in Computing
in Conjunction with:
Anita Borg Institute for
Women in Technology
© Linda Chastain, CSCI Instructor, 2009
Butte-Glenn Community College
GHC
The celebration is a four day conference
bringing together technical women in
academia, research, computing, industry
and government.
It is both a celebration of achievement,
and a call to action to mentor and increase
the ratio of women in technical and
non-traditional fields.
Day One
Day one was dedicated to recognition of
PhD research dissertations by women in
the Computer Science / Technology fields.
The presenters ranged from those in the
medical, psychology, and research fields.
They all had a basis in Computer Science,
whether is was creating an algorithm or a
new technology.
Day One
Nora Ahmed – “ a Path Based System for
Guidance in Pervasive Environment”
Implementation of RFID in nursing home
environment.
Unaizah Obaidellah –”Retrieving Cognitive
Chunks from Graphical Tablet Drawing”
Retrieving / storing and compiling cognitive
research from graphical tablet drawings.
Andrea Schweer – “Augmenting
Autobiographical Memory” development of
computer aided memory systems.
Day One
Natalia Villanueva-Rosales – “Towards the semiautomated Building of Knowledge Bases for
Biological Research” Creation of semantic web
search engine for tracking and dissemination of
Pharmacological and genetic research.
Esin Saka – “Dynamic Clustering and
Visualization using Swarm Intelligence” Utilizing
swarm intelligence clustering to create dynamic
real time data updates for research purposes.
Day Two
Keynote Speaker: Megan Smith – VP New
Business Development & General Manager,
Google.org.
Broad based changes that emerging technologies can make
and the social impact on global society.
Emerging Markets: Stressed importance of emerging African
Markets and SMS implementation in E. Africa
Importance of Global tracking of flu epidemics through
Google symptom queries
Relevance of Data mining in trend tracking
Civil liberties and the role of social networking technology in
aiding underrepresented populations
Environmental tracking and awareness i.e. carbon war room,
etc.
Day Two
Breakout session: “Best practices for
introductory Computer Science”
Panel discussion featuring solution for recruiting
and retention of women in intro CS classes.
Rochester Institute of Technology- Formal written
invitation for high school girls, Open houses, connection
between CS and different fields.
 Technical College of NJ – include non-technical
multimedia track that includes “Scratch” to teach
programming lite, without “dumbing” down subject.
 Union College – 5 Theme based intro courses:
Engineering, AI, Robotics, Data structures & Games
General Consensus: Need to get girls interested at a much
earlier age!
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Day Two
Break out session: Inspiring Girls in
Technology: Making every Outreach a
Success.
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5 panel discussion and activities with Google and
Techbridge. Google and Chabot have created a program
that successfully introduces girls to technology and
engineering at the middle school age through the use of
fun hands on labs.
Their suggestion is a partnership of College / High school
and Middle school teachers and students creating a
mentoring network that creates a continuing technical
learning environment. Utilization of “Alice” programming
language.
For tools: http://www.techbridgegirls.org/
Day Three
Keynote Speaker: Fran Berman,
VP for research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Director San Diego Supercomputer center,
International Leader in Cyber-infrastructure,
Fellow of ACM, Senior Member of IEEE.
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In depth discussion of 10 year to 100 year plan for
data preservation.
More Info: http://www.sdsc.edu/profile/fberman.html
Award Winners:
Ruzena Bajcsy, Anita Borg Technical
Leadership Award Winner
Professor Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley ,
Director CITRIS Research and development of Teleimmersion technology
For More Info: http://tele-immersion.citris-uc.org/video
Award Winners:
Nadya Mason, Denice Denton Award winner.
Assistant Professor Physics at University of
Illinois, BS Harvard, PhD Stanford
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Condensed matter experimentalist focuses on how
electrons behave.
Research in Carbon Nanotube technology for Micro
scale technology computing.
More Info:
http://physics.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?nadya
http://www.anitaborg.org/about/who-we-are/nadyamason
Conclusion:
Amazing experience and celebration of
women and how far we have advanced
and how we can continue to aid in the
advancement of young women in
technology and non-traditional fields.
Next year it is being held in Atlanta, GA.
Student scholarships are available.