GHC News: ANITA BORG INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FOR THE 2010 GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING
Speakers to include Carol Bartz, Duy-Loan Le and Barbara Liskov
PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 1, 2010 — The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) announced today that Carol Bartz, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo!, Duy-Loan Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments and Barbara Liskov, Institute Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT will be the keynote speakers for the 10th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), to be held September 28-October 2 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.
The world’s largest gathering of women in computing in industry, academia, and government, GHC is a five-day technical conference designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Leading researchers and industry experts discuss their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research, and engineering. Co-presented by the Anita Borg Institute and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the conference features more than 110 sessions which include panels, workshops, technical papers, Ph.D. forum, technical posters and “birds of a feather” sessions. Program offerings span 10 tracks and include a track on open source collaboration, HCI, invited technical speakers, the ACM Student Research Competition as well, as an awards celebration. The theme of this year’s conference is “Collaborating Across Boundaries”.
GHC provides technical women with visibility, a sense of community, critical social networks and mentoring relationships that improve female representation in the field.
About This Year’s Keynote Speakers
Carol Bartz, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo!
Carol Bartz is the chief executive officer and a director of Yahoo! Previously, Bartz served as executive chairman of the board of Autodesk, Inc. During her tenure, the company diversified its product line and grew revenues from $285 million to $1.523 billion in FY06. Bartz previously held positions at Sun Microsystems, most recently serving as vice president of worldwide field operations and an executive officer of the company. Before joining Sun, she held product line and sales management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and 3M Corporation. Bartz holds an honors degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin.
Duy-Loan Le, Senior Fellow & World Wide advanced Technology Ramp Manager, Texas Instruments
Duy-Loan Le is currently the World Wide Advanced Technology Ramp Manager, development projects using innovative technology, for Texas Instruments. In 1982, she graduated from The University of Texas in Austin with BSEE Magna Cum Laude and started as a memory design engineer at the age of 19 with Texas Instruments. Duy-Loan received her MBA from The University of Houston in 1989. In 2002, Duy-Loan became the first Asian and the first woman to be elected to the rank of Senior Fellow. Duy-Loan holds 23 patents with 7 pending applications. Duy-Loan serves on the Board of Directors for National Instruments. Duy-Loan is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and is frequently invited to speak at Fortune 500 companies. Duy-Loan list of accolades includes WITI Hall of Fame, National Technologist of the Year, TimesPeople, Asian American Engineer of The Year, Who’s Who in the World, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award, PINK’s Top 15 Women in Business, VANG’s Golden Torch with United States Congressional Recognition for Civic Leadership.
Barbara Liskov, Institute Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor at MIT and also Associate Provost for Faculty Equity. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. Professor Liskov received the ACM Turing Award in 2009, the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language Achievement Award in 2008, the IEEE Von Neumann medal in 2004, a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1996, and in 2003 was named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover Magazine. Her research interests include distributed systems, replication algorithms to provide fault-tolerance, programming methodology, and programming languages. Professor Liskov’s current research projects include Byzantine-fault-tolerant storage systems, peer-to-peer computing, and support for automatic deployment of software upgrades in large-scale distributed systems.
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Anita Borg Institute Announces Registration is Open for 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, press release.
www.gracehopper.org, website
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. ABI programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. ABI is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. ABI Partners include: Google, Microsoft, HP, CA, Cisco, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, National Science Foundation, NetApp, SAP, Sun/Oracle, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Intuit, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, Raytheon and ABI Government Patron NSA. For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.
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