GHC 2010

Attended Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing last week...... Great conference, actually not an ideal match for educators, but I found value in attending it. Lots of great participants, inspiring keynotes and useful plenary sessions... not to mention interesting research presentations. As I go from semester to semester trying to do all the things that I want to do and more, it is times like this when I can step back and look at what I am doing from a different perspective. The CS Ed conferences are great, but this was definitely a different perspective. I have to confess that I have never been surrounded by so many technical women ever.... In most of the MS and PhD classes I took, I was definitely a minority, usually the only female in PhD classes. Being surrounded by some 2200 odd technical women was kind of nice. I was also thoroughly impressed by the attention India is receiving. They had a female IBM executive from India in a plenary session, a complete track on Women in Computing in India and there is a separate conference in Bangalore, India in Dec 2010. More information here.

Finally, I should also mention that I received quite a decent response to my poster at the event (Is that an imposter syndrome?? :-))