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Our featured bloggers are conference organizers, presenters, and Community Volunteers. Here are links to their most recent GHC10 posts on either their blogs or ours (Grace Hopper Bloggers). As bloggers write about specific conference sessions, they’ll also add links on the GHC Notes Wiki so you can scan the schedule there for sessions of interest.

"[Being different] over a whole lifetime, adds up to an enormous amount of needless trouble."

By | terriko | March 2, 2012

I'm re-reading Richard Hamming's talk on You and Your Research because I felt like I needed the kick in the pants to do great work this month after some very busy months of doing necessary but not nec. […]

Macroblogging my microblog

By | terriko | October 21, 2010

You can now get an aggregation of my daily twitter posts by subscribing to tko . I thought it was funny to use my shortened name for the shortened blogging. Also, I actually hate reading aggregated t. […]

GHC Codeathon for Humanity

By Shruti Satsangi | Grace Hopper Bloggers | October 17, 2010

I wrote a post about the Codeathon for Humanity held at GHC this year for the Open Source Business Resource (OSBR), a publication of the Talent First Network, in which I talked about the great strateg. […]

After the Grace Hopper Conference: There's More!

By BJ Wishinsky | Grace Hopper Bloggers | October 14, 2010

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to the success of the 10th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing! Whether or not you attended, you can benefit from the event and help us make th. […]

GHC10: Friday Keynote, Barbara Liskov, Another Perspective

By Valerie Fenwick | Thoughts on security, beer, theater and biking! | October 11, 2010

I did not originally blog on Dr. Barbara Liskov's Friday morning keynote, but found while writing up my trip report that many of the things she mentioned had really stuck with me so I wanted to share. […]

Career and Economic Opportunity in Open Source Software

By Shruti Satsangi | Grace Hopper Bloggers | October 9, 2010

As part of the open source track at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) this year, there was an informative session on career and economic opportunity in Open Source Software (OSS. […]

Friday Morning Welcome- Keynote: Barbara Liskov (MIT)

By Charna Parkey | PhD Research and Conference Attendance | October 8, 2010

All photos from GHC are on this web sitewww.useventphotos.comWhat I would like to talk about regarding Barbara Liskovs talk has to do with one of the questions in the Q and A.What would you recommend. […]

Carol Bartz Keynote

By Charna Parkey | PhD Research and Conference Attendance | October 8, 2010

Here are some impressive numbers on Yahoo!600 million people come to them from around the world and they serve up 100 billion emails a month as well as 18 billion adds a day.Here are some key points f. […]

HCI Track at Grace Hopper

By Gail Carmichael | The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 7, 2010

From the Communications of ACM blog:The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing had two special technical tracks added to the program this year: open source and human-computer interaction. Whil. […]

Some notes from GHC

By katychuang | tuesdays with kat » ghc10 | October 7, 2010

Some notes I posted onto the wiki: Moving Up the Ladder: To Full Professor or Senior Scientist (Notes) Faceted Identity, …Continue reading »

NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women

By Gail Carmichael | The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 5, 2010

From the Communications of ACM blog:Research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) gave an excellent talk on recruiting and reta. […]

How do I keep in touch with all the awesome women I met at GHC10?

By | terriko | October 4, 2010

I'm home, and trying desperately to remember all the people I have to contact about various things. For my much smaller academic conferences, I find I usually want to follow up with 3-4 people, and th. […]

Beth Pruitt - Denise Denton Emerging Leader Award

By Portia | The Budding Enthusiast | October 3, 2010

I had the pleasures of attending a talk by Dr. Beth Pruitt, the Denise Denton Emerging Leader Award.  Dr. Pruitt told us about her personal career path as well as the research being done in her lab.. […]

Back from GHC10@tlanta, now time to retrospect

By Awalin Sopan | Shopan's blog | October 3, 2010

IMG_8248 Originally uploaded by geeklindaFour awesome days at Atlanta for the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing. Had a great time, now buried with home works and projects and undone laund. […]

GHC 10: HCI Field trip to GVU: blog in pictures

By Awalin Sopan | Shopan's blog | October 2, 2010

Oct 1, 2010, Friday, Atlanta, GVU lab reception watching tv with user specific interface trying to feed robot dyno. Augmented reality lab

Cloudy with a Chance of Security – Addressing Security and Privacy Risk at Scale in Cloud-based Delivery Systems

By Ritu Arora | Grace Hopper Bloggers | October 2, 2010

Panelists: Kore Koubourlis (Microsoft), Gerlinde Zibulski (SAP AG), Linda Bernardi (StraTerra Partners LLC), and Alyssa Henry (Amazon Simple Storage Service)A panel of women from industry presented th. […]

GHC10: The Power of the Purse: Making Our Collective Voices Heard

By Valerie Fenwick | Thoughts on security, beer, theater and biking! | October 1, 2010

The panel started out with some great slides that showed how much more women use technology than men. Women make 70% of the consumer buying decisions, women dominate higher education (140 degrees per. […]

Bangladeshi Girl Squad at GHC10

By Awalin Sopan | Shopan's blog | October 1, 2010

       We left our country and came here for higher education, to receive our Masters or PhD and spread all over USA , and then, aha, here  we met , in GHC conference at Atlanta. I see the face. […]

Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper

By Gail Carmichael | The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 1, 2010

From the Communications of ACM blog:When I tell someone about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing , I start by explaining the dance parties. I tell them, “You wouldn’t think that an. […]

GHC10: Fighting Cyber Crime: Technology that Fights Crime and Protects Our Children

By Valerie Fenwick | Thoughts on security, beer, theater and biking! | October 1, 2010

You have a 6 in 10 chance of being impacted by cyber crime, yet people worry way less about this type of attack than they do about snake bites or getting struck by lightening. Rhonda Shantz, from Syma. […]

Imposter Panel: do YOU belong?

By M. O. | Northern Belle | October 1, 2010

Every year at GHC there is a panel called the Imposter Panel. I remember when I first came in 2006 it was in a medium sized room, and everyone crammed into the talk, stood in the hall, and not everyon. […]

Latest and Greatest in Assistive Technology

By geeklinda | Geeklinda | October 1, 2010

Session is in room Cairo/HongKong 10:00amPresenters: Chan, West, Snider, Dias, Lay-Flurrie, Havlik. Presentation1: Intel reader http://www.intel.com/about/companyinfo/healthcare/products/reader/index.. […]

10 Things I'm Glad I Know Now About Landing a Job in Computing

By Portia | The Budding Enthusiast | September 30, 2010

 Session: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My CareerDate: Thursday, September 30, 2010Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am;  Session One Student TrackToday I attended the student track panel 10 Things I. […]

notes on HCI track: 3 presentations. 3:00pm Thurs

By geeklinda | Geeklinda | September 30, 2010

Visualization data analysis of emailsmea18 from sfu.caEnron dataset. y axis = email addresses. x axis = time. Size of circles = size of email? Or perhaps number of emails? Crowded areas in email set f. […]

Thriving in a multidisciplinary world: technical & communication skills are key

By M. O. | Northern Belle | September 30, 2010

So fun! We got to learn how to say good morning in Portuguese to start off the talk on Managing Scientific Data in a Multidisciplinary world by Claudia Bauzer Medeiros. Halfway through we also had a T. […]

CRA-W How do I build my professional network

By Charna Parkey | PhD Research and Conference Attendance | September 30, 2010

First I would like to profile the speakers of this session and then discuss the interactive portions.Mary Czerwinski Microsoft ResearchMary, HCI for the future of computing, etc. Been at microsoft for. […]

CRA-W Workshops bring interesting perspectives on research

By M. O. | Northern Belle | September 29, 2010

The CRA-W tracks at GHC have been really interesting so far. I went to the first one of the Early Career Scientist track, where the top was how to start your own research lab. There was a speaker who. […]

Exploring new Careers: US Defense and Cyber Security

By geeklinda | Geeklinda | September 29, 2010

Introductions. Everyone has very impressive titles. Q: (very long, but upshot is "How did you get to where you are now?")Sue (leftmost)- onsite campus interview w/ Lockheed. "I stayed in space my whol. […]

CRA-W Grad Track - How to build my professional network

By Mona | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 29, 2010

Building a professional network is another one of those skills analogous to when we say 'common sense is not that common'. We are naturally social beings and need a network of people to go about our d. […]

GHC 2010: Connecting Campuses Worldwide

By Portia | The Budding Enthusiast | September 29, 2010

While sitting at the registration booth doing my Hopperly duties :-), I noticed a group of women registering who said that they are from Carnegie Mellon University.  I too am a student at Carnegie Me. […]

Grace Hopper 2010 - The Celebration Begins!

By Shruti Satsangi | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 28, 2010

Less than a day till the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing starts in Atlanta!I learnt about the conference last year (was too late to register) and ever since then I've been waiting for G. […]

Packing for Atlanta! [update]

By Ed | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 27, 2010

It turns out I did have time to document getting ready for Atlanta!Here's what I packed (click the photo to go the Flickr page with notes):What are you bringing with you to GHC?

Packing for Atlanta!

By Ed | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 27, 2010

Ed here!  I wanted to do a quick post about what I'll be bringing with me to Atlanta this year.  Usually I do a video episode of Ed & Ashley's 5 Minute Show, but GHC came up so fast this year!  So,. […]

Impressive Women

By Julia | julia@ghc10 | September 26, 2010

These are the 2010 Anita Borg Award Winners:http://gracehopper.org/2010/conference/2010-award-winners/Great women, with a lot to learn from!

Grace Hopper Schedule

By Julia | julia@ghc10 | September 26, 2010

Here is a quick link to the Grace Hopper schedule for this year:http://gracehopper.org/2010/schedule-at-a-glance/

Introducing Myself

By Julia | julia@ghc10 | September 26, 2010

Hello everyone!My name is Julia Stefani. I am supper excited to be a blogger for Grace Hopper this year. This is my first time as a blogger for the conference and honestly one of the few times I have. […]

How I Ended Up Registering for the 2010 Grace Hopper Conference

By Keita (Del Valle) Wangari | Speak HCI | September 26, 2010

(Well, here's how I think it happened...with all the pre-conference excitement and buzz, the beginning of all this is becoming a little fuzzy!)In 2009, I was fortunate to receive a Career Development. […]

Introducing myself - Mona Chitnis

By Mona | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 24, 2010

Hello all community members!I am Mona Chitnis, Computer Science graduate student at Georgia Tech. Its great to see the level of preparation and enthusiasm for GHC '10 and to be an integral part of it.. […]

Attending GHC from Afar

By Kate | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 16, 2010

As my friends well know, I'm really passionate about GHC. In person, I ramble on and on about the benefits of attending. Online, I blog about GHC, tweet about GHC, and post countless FB status updates. […]

How to Make the Most of Twitter for Grace Hopper

By Ashley | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 13, 2010

Short on time? Jump to "Networking Face-to-Face to Twitter (and Back!)"Twitter has hit mainstream. News anchors suggest following their account for the latest updates, companies updating their online. […]

Transportation while in Atlanta for GHC10

By Mary H-B | Grace Hopper Bloggers | September 10, 2010

Some more tips from your local chair.To and from the airport:The Hyatt and Marriott do NOT provide complimentary shuttle service to or from the airport. Marta is the public transportation rail line in. […]

Places to Eat while at GHC10 from the local chair

By Mary H-B | Grace Hopper Bloggers | August 29, 2010

Well, eating at good places has always been an adventure when traveling. I got to thinking that some of you may want to know about restaurants in Atlanta while at the conference. So my first group of. […]

Things to do in Atlanta when attending GHC10

By Mary H-B | Grace Hopper Bloggers | August 27, 2010

WORLD OF COCA-COLA http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/Enjoy a truly unique experience at World of Coca-Cola, a grand museum dedicated to the world’s most popular soft drink. Coca-Cola’s world headqua. […]

How to Make the Most of Facebook for Grace Hopper

By Kate | Grace Hopper Bloggers | August 19, 2010

Those of you who have been to GHC know what a great opportunity it presents for networking - and those of you who haven't been before are soon to find out! Facebook is a great tool to help you make ne. […]

How to Make the Most of LinkedIn for Grace Hopper

By Valerie Fenwick | Grace Hopper Bloggers | August 18, 2010

While Grace Hopper is a great technical conference, it is also a wonderful place to network and find jobs. When you're preparing for the conference, you should consider creating a LinkedIn profile or. […]

How to Make the Most of Flickr for Grace Hopper

By Gail Carmichael | Grace Hopper Bloggers | August 16, 2010

With the advent of digital cameras, we can all consider ourselves photographers. But what happens to the hundreds of photos you'll inevitably take at this year's Grace Hopper? Instead of letting them. […]

Meet the GHC10 Communities Committee!

By BJ Wishinsky | Grace Hopper Bloggers | August 6, 2010

For months the Grace Hopper 2010 Communities Committee worked behind the scenes. They created Twitter hashtags for GHC tracks, designed GHC speaker badges, determined community volunteer needs, and pl. […]

My Favourite Grace Hopper Memories

By Gail Carmichael | Grace Hopper Bloggers | July 12, 2010

My fellow Grace Hopper Communities Committee members wanted to share our favourite Grace Hopper memories over the next few days, and we hope you'll do the same! It's so much fun reflecting back on wha. […]

GHC Memories - What's Your Favorite?

By Kate | Grace Hopper Bloggers | July 9, 2010

This year I'm working with some wonderful people on the Grace Hopper Communities Committee, and it's got me thinking about why I enjoyed GHC so much in the past and what my favorite memory might be. G. […]

Introducing a Recent Undergrad Graduate

By Ashley | Grace Hopper Bloggers | July 8, 2010

Hello! I'm Ashley Myers, and I am the other co-chair of the Grace Hopper Conference Communities Committee. As both Ed and Gail I have done, I am here to introduce myself. If you haven't yet, check out. […]