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 …

My proposal titled  “Women and the Flat Connected World” was accepted at the  The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It will be held 30Sept-03Oct 2009 in Tucson, Arizona. The GHC 2009 theme is “Creating Technology for Social Good”.

Modern global companies allow for multiple forms of collaboration, without regard to geography, time, distance, culture or language; in essence, they create a “flat” world without such boundaries. The worlds of software, academia, journalism and business have seen a surge in world wide collaboration.  Technology companies have embraced new processes and employees have adapted themselves to the new model. Teams have …

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be held September 30 - October 3 in Tucson, Arizona. The GHC 2009 theme is “Creating Technology for Social Good”.  I have just submitted a proposal for the conference and will wait till mid-May to know if it gets selected.

This conference includes a large number of university students, university faculty and professionals from the computer industry.  About half of Hopper attendees are university students.

Last year, I moderated a panel discussion on “Women in the Brave New World of Free and Open Source”. It was fun to research and set up the …