Published on: September 30 2009
I am glad that I got Jo Miller’s Workshop early. The tables filled up well before the 2:00 start time, at this year’s sold out Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing!
Jo Miller starts off stating: if you want to be a leader, you have to be a leader! Nobody will ever tap you on the shoulder and tell you they think you should be one - you have to take charge yourself.
She notes that power & influence can be used for evil manipulation, but it’s obviously not her intention to teach us any of these tricks.
Miller notes that if …
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Published on: September 30 2009
I am at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2009 at Tuscon, Arizona. This is my fourth time at this conference and I hope to be able to come back to more. There are enthusiastic and energetic crowd of 1,600 technical women in industry, faculty, and students from 22 countries!
Few people, in the recent past, seem to know about Grace Hopper. Admiral Grace Hopper was one of the pioneer Computer programmers in 1940’s. You can read more about her in the Biography of Naval History. Grace Hopper popularized the term “bug” as applied to computers and it was …
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Published on: September 06 2009
I have enjoyed reading “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie. It is an interesting tale of two teenage boys and a teenage girl (seamstress). The story is set in the time of the Cultural Revolution somewhere between 1966-1976. The two city boys (Lou and his friend, the narrator of the book) are banished for completing high school and sent to the mountains for China’s Re-Education program, to live the life of peasants and “unlearn”. No one being “re-educated” is permitted to read any books except the little red book of sayings written by Chairman Mao. Instead, they …
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Published on: September 03 2009
I was waiting to hear the outcome of the European Commission decision today. Will they approve proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by the software company Oracle? It was disappointing to read this in The NY Times. The European Commission has decided to take at least three months (Jan 19) to decide the next steps.
I am hoping that the approval goes through sooner than the 3 months!
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