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I'm a Hopper, You're a Hopper (Angela Dalton)
Innovation Inside Corporations
Some of the greatest innovations in technology come out of large, powerful corporations. You just can’t match the resources of those organizations in terms of money and technical prowess. The question this session tried to answer was how to get involved in the innovation within a large corporation, where it seems so easy to get [...]
Brit @ GHC 2007 (Brittany McCullar)
Innovation Strategies: Finding the Next Big Idea
Sadness.. It's my last session at my first GHC!
The presenter founded a company called Rubicon in 1999. It's a
high-tech consulting firm that has big-name clients such as Logitech.
Innovation is critical! She said that we should consider ourselves as
innovators, which is interesting to think about. I had never thought
of myself as an innovator before. I suppose I could look at our work
with WiCS as innovation!
The speaker brought up an interesting story about the CEO of FedEx,
Fred Smith. He wrote an undergrad paper about his applied idea from
telecommunications and banking industries to transportation He got a
C on it! His classmates and professor did not like his idea at all.
This is so inspiring to me since I have received less-than-stellar
grades on essays in my undergraduate study, and that can be so
discouraging. It's nice to realize that even some of the most
successful people in industry have not always done as well as they
would like!
She told us another story about the inventor of Post-It notes, Art
Fry. As a college student, I can attest that Post-It notes are pretty
much the best invention ever. :)
One of Apple's inventions, the first mouse for a Macintosh, was a
"reinvented" invention that was originally debuted in 1968. Twenty
years later, it became a successful Apple product.
Some innovation lessons:
-Build on existing concepts.
-Do more elegant solutions.
-Serve the new demand.
-Serve exising customers with more.
Five part framework for innovation:
-Map it -> compare to competitors and benchmarks
-Listen and knit -> research methodology
-Seek out new minds -> find other good thinkers, be curious, and ask questions
-Seek the wand -> ask powerful questions, find solutions for problems
-Plot out options -> develop alternative scenarios, work on scenarios
with industry leaders
This was a very interesting, thought-provoking session. What a great
way to conclude GHC!
Meandering streams of consciousness (Anna Martelli Ravenscroft)
Diane's space (Diane Curtis)
Technical to Management: Expect the Unexpected - A Synopsis of Two Women’s First Year Experiences
This would be one of the harder panels to prepare for. Do you cover best practices of being a manager? Anecdotal evidence of things that have worked well for you?
This presentation gave a good overview of some pros/cons of moving to management, some challenges they had and best practices. Overall, I liked it as an overview. I was expecting more examples of "unexpected" things. But many of the things discussed worked whether one is a leader in the organization or a manager. For instance, asking for feedback. Everyone should be asking for feedback from peers/managers. It helps anyone get better! And get a mentor or support system!! Again, I think mentorship is a great best practice for anyone. I was happy they reinforced that.
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FeelingElephant's Weblog (Jessica Dickinson Goodman)
Mentoring Makes MAGIC for Middle and High School Girls (part 2)
Hey all, Just as I promised, here’s more info on MAGIC. I was very impressed by the women on this panel. But the facts of the MAGIC project are just as interesting (and potentially motivational). As a quick note, I just finished watching part of Randy Pausch’s presentation on Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and [...]
Katy Dickinson's Blog (Katy Dickinson)
Hopper Conference Photos (GHC09)
We have all of my Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC09) photos from last week uploaded,
so I just finished adding the pictures to my GHC09 blog entries so far:
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Day Before the Hopper Conference, Tucson, Arizona (GHC09),
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -
1st day at Hopper Conference (GHC09),
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -
2nd Day at Hopper Conference (GHC09),
Thursday October 01, 2009 -
I Am a Technical Woman, 3rd Day at Hopper Conference (GHC09),
Friday October 02, 2009
Here are additional photos, some from the walk my daughter Jessica and I took on Saturday morning before we left for the airport.
Katy and banner
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Jessica and cactus
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Katy and Jessica badges
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saguaro hill
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Cactus skyline
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last cactus flower
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little cactus, rocks
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Images Copyright 2009 by Katy Dickinson
Thoughts from a software engineer (Valerie Fenwick)
It's about time to go and finish packing and head to the airport. I'm in Innovation Strategies: Finding the Big Idea, but I have to leave early and the session started late, so I'm not going to write anything up on this session - but Brittany is blogging this session right next to me, so it'll be covered :-)
Sponsor Night last night was incredible - got to talk to so many amazing women, meeting new people, reconnecting with friends and even bumped into a woman, Heather, that I went to Snider High School with in Fort Wayne, IN. Small world!
This was such an amazing conference - I've got so many things to take away from this. So much to think about. I'll try to write more thoughts on all of this later - but for now, I need to pack!
Official GHC 2007 Blogger. You may comment on this blog by visiting the GHC Forum.
life is beautiful (Tulika Agrawal)
"approved" laptop bags
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1829687,00.html?cnn=yes
To qualify as "checkpoint friendly," a bag must have a designated laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.
Obviously the security people are not going to look at each laptop bag and tell you to either take the laptop out or leave it in. That would totally defeat the purpose. So in the end it will boil down to are you carrying the laptop bag with approval seal. One more way for manufacturers to charge an insane amount for their "authority approved" merchandise, like the ziplock bags. What's next, approved shoes, approved shampoo and conditioner, approved knife, gun ......
Eventyr (Johanna Hunt)
Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurism is working from within; "internalising the mission of an organization, absorbing your customer's problem, and driving a creative solution that matters." Organisations rely on intrapreneurism and always have. No one tells you to do it but they appreciate the...
Gilda en Espaol (Gilda Garreton)
Aquí estan mis notas de dos presentaciones de la primera sesión que asistí en GHC09. Esto fue ayer Miércoles pero el tiempo ha estado escaso. Los títulos están en Inglés pues no vale la pena traducirlos a este nivel.
Talk 1: "Improving the User Experience of Information Technologies in Residential Settings"
Speaker: Erika S. Poole (Georgia Institute of Technology)
La presentación estuvo basada en los resultados empiricos de los estudios que miden la interacción de los dueños de casa con el suport técnico de los diferentes artefactos electrónicos que se manejan en estos dias en la casa, comenzando por el teléfono, contestadora y los computadores. Entre los estudios estuvo el analisis de 4 años de datos sobre soporte via web y la idea principal es sacar las mejores prácticas o tener una mejor idea de como la red en una casa debería lucir. Este PhD está en el ámbito de interacción humana.
Se dieron cuenta que lo normal es recibir ayuda informal en vez de suporte técnico. Es decir, llamar a un amigo es más comun que llamar al servicio técnico. El estudio también busca poder predecir los problemas computacionales y terminar con los conceptos errados en computación. De cambiar, las modificaciones van desde (1) cambiar la arquitectura, (2) cambiar la configuración y (3) detección/correción de errores.
Esta construyendo la aplicación Tech Clips que le permitirá a la gente compartir consejos tecnológicos para compartir con mienbros de alguna comunidad social.
Talk 2: :Automatic Generation of Parallel Programs with Dynamic Scheduling on a Network-on-Chip (NoC):
Speaker: Jungsook Yang (UC Irvine)
Comenzó con una introducción a NoC y de donde nace la necesidad de tener este tipo de comunicación. Dado el nuevo paradigma del diseño de microprocesadores, se ha tenido que innovar en la manera de conectar procesadores y es la justificación de comunicación on-chip. De ahí el paso de buses, a point-to-point y ahora a NoC que usan menos wires, son escalables y tienen una mejor bandwidth.
3 son las metas en esta tesis: (1) mejorar la comunicación durante lectura y escritura, (2) una estrategia de balance de carga en tiempo real y (3) un simulador NoC para la optimización de hardware y software.
