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 …

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 …