Dr. Jean Scholtz, of the Information Access Division, was one of six invited technical speakers at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002 Conference held in October in Vancouver, Canada. The theme of this year’s conference was Ubiquity; Dr. Scholtz was invited to give a presentation on ubiquitous computing. This Conference was the fourth in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.
The Grace Hopper Conference was started by Anita Borg, co-founder of the Institute for Women in Technology. This year’s conference was attended by over 600 women in computer science. Grace Hopper 2002 was organized by the Institute for Women in Technology (http://www.iwt.org) and supported by a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Intel. Conference presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. The conference includes technical sessions for leading researchers to present their current work and sessions covering current issues for computing professionals, such as privacy, leadership, recruiting women in computer science, and science education for young girls.
Other speakers at this year’s conference included Judith
Estrin, CEO of Packet Design, Fran Berman, Director of the San Diego
Supercomputer Center, the National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (NPACI) and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at
U.C. San Diego, and Leah H. Jamieson, Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Purdue University and co-founder of the Engineering Projects in
Community Service (EPICS) engineering design program.
Prior to the conference, a senior women’s summit was held to discuss a number of issues facing women in technology. More information about the conference can be found at http://www.gracehopper.org/.
Contact: Jean
Scholtz, ext. 2520.