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“I Invent the Future”
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference 2007

RECOGNIZING WOMEN INVENTORS AND IDEALIST

***General Media Advisory***

What: 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference - www.gracehopper.org

Theme: I Invent the Future
Overview: Women in computing are Inventing the Future; from space travel to advances in robotic technology, to leading scientific breakthroughs in cancer research and cloning.

Where: Disney Hilton, 1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Website: www.gracehopper.org

Contact: media@gracehopper.org or 650-236-4079

When: October 17-20, 2007

Why: The leading conference for women in the field of computer science, the Grace Hopper Celebration provides a forum to inspire, educate, encourage and create awareness of opportunities for women in the field of computing and to celebrate the considerable achievement of women in the field. This year’s theme, I Invent the Future, emphasizes the impact women have on the computing and technology fields and celebrates the potential each attendee possesses.

Who: The largest gathering of Women in Computing in the World includes leading women from industry and government, professors and researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. Plenary sessions, technical papers, panels, poster sessions and workshops by successful researchers and professionals in the area of computer science.
Anticipated attendance: 1300+

2007 Keynotes

  • Donna Dubinsky, Founder and CEO of Numenta, Former President and CEO of Palm
  • Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College

Invited Technical Speakers:

  • Li-Shiuan Peh, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  • Carole Dulong, Technical Lead, Software Platform Group, Google
  • Teresa Meng, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Jen Rexford, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
  • Valentina Salapura, Research Staff Member, Exploratory Server Systems group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Devika Subramanian, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
  • And many, many, more…

Conference Leadership:

  • General Chair - Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women & Information Technology
  • Program Chair - Anne Condon, University of British Columbia

History: Co-founded in 1994 by Dr. Anita Borg (1949-2003) and Dr. Telle Whitney and named to honor the legacy of US Navy Admiral, Grace Murray Hopper. Admiral Hopper’s work on compilers and on making machines understand ordinary language instructions led ultimately to the development of the business language COBOL.

There have been six Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conferences, 1994 in Washington D.C., 1997 in San Jose, California, 2000 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2002 in Vancouver, British Columbia, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois, and 2006 in San Diego, California.

The Conference Design: Plenary sessions, technical papers, panels, poster sessions and workshops by successful researchers and professionals in the area of computer science.

Grace Hopper Celebration 2007 Sponsors:

Platinum Corporate Sponsors: Cisco, Goggle, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft. Gold Corporate Sponsors: Amazon.com, CA, and Yahoo. Silver Corporate Sponsors: Argonne National laboratory, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Symantec, and ThoughtWorks. Bronze Corporate Sponsors: Adobe, NetApps, Oracle, and AT&T Research Labs. Supporter Corporate Sponsors: Harris Assured Communications and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Start-Up/Non-Profit Sponsors: National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Founding Sponsors: Computer Research Association (CRA) and CRA-W.

Academic Underwriters:
Platinum Government Underwriter: National Science Foundation (NSF). Gold Academic Underwriters: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Southampton. Silver Academic Underwriters: Carnegie Mellon’s The Information Networking Institute, New York University, Northwestern University, California Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley. Bronze Academic Underwriters: Tufts, University of Iowa, Penn Engineering, and University of Waterloo. Affiliate Academic Underwriters: Cornell University, Arizona State University, Pace University, and R.I.T.

Additional Events:

Awards Banquet and Celebration: Announces the award recipients of the prestigious

  • Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership
  • Anita Borg Social Impact Award sponsored by Microsoft
  • Anita Borg Change Agent Awards
  • Denice Denton Memorial Award

Pre-conference events:

Bridge Day: The Grace Hopper Celebration is co-located with the Richard Tapia Conference. Bridge Day creates a space where attendees from both Conferences can attend sessions of mututal interest to all attendees.

TechLeaders: Promotes and enhances leadership skills for technical women at all levels. Brings together powerful women exercising major influence on technology from industry, government and academia. Provides a venue where women leaders meet to share ideas, tactics, and strategies and expand and deepen relationships with peers in the technical community.

About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI):
In an increasingly competitive global marketplace the Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs for industry, academia and government to help them recruit, retain and develop women leaders in high tech fields resulting in higher levels of technology innovation. ABI programs serve high-tech women creating a community and providing tools to develop their careers. The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. ABI Partners: Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Google, IBM, Intel, Cisco and Juniper Networks www.gracehopper.org.

About ACM:
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http//www.acm.org%3C/a%3E,%20is%20an%20educational%20and%20scientific%20society%20uniting%20the%20world”>The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) and is co-presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Contact: For more information please see www.gracehopper.org or contact media@gracehopper.org or phone 650-236-4079.