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For Immediate Release:
www.gracehopper.org or general email: media@gracehopper.org
Phone number 650-236-4079
Registration Now Open !!
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference 2004
HOPPER CONFERENCE MARKS THE 10th ANNIVERSARY AS BEACON FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY
June 16, 2004, PALO ALTO, CA. — Registration is now open for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference: October 6-9, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. This year's theme, Making History , emphasizes the importance of cooperation and collaboration with women of different generations. It also highlights the impact that women have made and will continue to make on technology. The GHC conference is presented by The Anita Borg Institute of Women in Technology and ACM.
Register by August 25th to receive the early registration rates. Special group rates for Grace Hopper Conference attendees are available at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. To register for the conference or for more information see www.gracehopper.org .
"The GHC has a profound impact because it includes all these women in computing sciences doing interesting and exciting work and the participants come away with a sense of motivation, community and support they may have never had before in their predominantly male environments," said Dr. Telle Whitney co-founder of the event along with Dr. Anita Borg (1949-2003). "Anita and I always imagined it as a technical conference and as a celebration of the amazing work that flows from its participants, but we completely underestimated the impact that this experience had on the students, faculty and working professionals that have attended over the years."
The 2004 keynote speakers are Dr. Shirley Malcom , Head of Education and Human Resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Telle Whitney , President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute of Women and Technology, and Professor Lydia Kavraki , from Rice University and the winner of the 2000 ACM Grace Hopper Award. Invited talk speakers include: Genevieve Bell from Intel, Linda Bernardi from Connecterra, Cynthia Dwork from Microsoft Research, Jessica Hodgins from CMU, Melody Moore from Georgia State, Daniela Rus from MIT, and Tandy Warnow from UT Austin. Read more about these women and their accomplishments and check out the complete program, recently released, at http://www.gracehopper.org .
About the Grace Murray Hopper Conference
The GHC (www.gracehopper.org), inspired by the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and ACM, the event hosts, enable these endeavors.
About the Anita Borg Institute
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (www.anitaborg.org) provides platforms that enable women's voices, ideas, and spirits influence technology. For further information, contact Eric Mason 650-236-4079 or ericm@anitaborg.org.
About ACM
ACM (www.acm.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for computing professionals, delivering a broad array of resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines, enable professional development, and promote policies and research that benefit society. For further information, contact Virginia Gold 212-626-0505 or vgold@acm.org.
Grace Hopper Celebration 2004 Sponsors:
Apple Computer, AT&T, ChevronTexaco, Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the National Science Foundation. Academic scholarship sponsors: CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Indiana University, the National Center for Women and IT, Princeton, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego.
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Contact: For more information please see www.gracehopper.org or contact media@gracehopper.org or phone 650-236-4079
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