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Keynote Speakers
Announced for the Grace Hopper Celebration
of Women in Computing Conference 2004

July 30, PALO ALTO, CA. — The 10 th anniversary Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC): Making History , will take place October 6-9, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. Headlining this year's conference are three keynote speakers who are leaders in their respective fields. Dr. Shirley Malcom , Head of Education and Human Resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will give the opening address on Thursday morning. Dr. Telle Whitney , President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute of Women and Technology, will give the Awards Banquet keynote on Thursday evening and Professor Lydia Kavraki , from Rice University and the winner of the 2000 ACM Grace Hopper Award, will give Friday's opening keynote.

To honor this year's theme of, Making History , the program emphasizes the importance of cooperation and collaboration with women of different generations highlighting the impact that women have made and will continue to make on technology. The GHC is inspired by the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, one of computer histories legendary figures, and is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. 

In addition to the keynote speakers, invited speakers, PhD forums and panels will complete the three-day conference being held at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel and Towers. Invited speakers include: Genevieve Bell from Intel, Linda Bernardi from ConnecTerra, Cynthia Dwork from Microsoft Research, Jessica Hodgins from CMU, Melody Moore from Georgia State, Daniela Rus from MIT, and Tandy Warnow from UT Austin. You can read more about these women and their accomplishments and the complete conference agenda at www.gracehopper.org .

The GHC conference is presented by The Anita Borg Institute of Women and Technology ( www.anitaborg.org ) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ( www.acm.org ).

Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 Sponsors:

Platinum : ACM and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Gold : AT&T, Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems. Silver :  Abbott Labs, Amazon.com, Apple Computer, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bronze :  Argonne National Lab, ChevronTexaco and Usenix.

Academic scholarship sponsors:
Gold : UC Irvine. Silver : CRA-W,  DePaul, Georgia Tech, Harvard University, Texas A&M, Toyota Technical Institute at Chicago. Bronze : Caltech, Carnegie Mellon , Indiana University, the National Center for Women and IT (NCWIT), Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC),  RPI, Stanford, Princeton, UC Berkeley, UC  Los Angeles, UC Riverside, UC San Diego,  UCSD IT(2), UC Santa Barbara , UC Santa Cruz  and University of Texas Austin. Affiliate : ATLAS Institute, National University of Singapore,  Ohio State, Pace University, Purdue University, UC Davis and University of Virginia .