Katy Dickinson

Submissions for Hopper 2009

I have spent the last few days reviewing drafts for submissions to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ("GHC"). Hopper will be held in Tucson, Arizona: September 30 - October 3, 2009. Sun will again be a Platinum conference sponsor (thanks this year to generous funding from the Women@Sun-West internal-to-Sun group). All conference submissions are due tonight.

Not counting invited talks and presentations submitted by other groups which include Sun staff, I think Sun will finish with about a dozen proposals for panels, BOFs (Birds of a Feather discussion topics), posters, presentations, and workshops on topics including:

• Creating an open online community for student developers (BOF)
• Designing for the 100+ Year Archive (Presentation)
• Dual-Career-Couple Problem (BOF)
• From Spec. to Silicon: Successful Validation of a Server-class SoC Microprocessor (Presentation)
• How environmental and economic factors are changing manufacturing and supply chain designs (Panel)
• Leveraging the Power of Your Women’s Network (Panel)
• More Than Just Coding: Alternate Careers in Computing (Panel)
• Open Source Community Development (Panel)
• The Value of Awards & How to Get Them this is my own panel!
• Women and the Flat Connected World (Panel)

I have also reviewed two Hopper submissions by my daughter Jessica:

• Playing with Alice After School (Workshop)
• Poetry and Prose Performances Project - p4 (Poster)

Jessica has already been on a Hopper panel (GHC 2007's "Girl Geeks"), and she presented the poster “How to Combat Plagiarism in Academia (and How Not To)” at GHC 2008.

GHC 2009 selection decisions will be announced on 18 May 2009.

Posted at 10:54PM Mar 16, 2009 by katysblog in Hopper - Anita Borg Institute  | 

Qatar and Coffee Pots

My daughter Jessica is back safe in Pittsburgh, PA, from her CMU Spring Break in Qatar (CMU-Q). It has been fascinating listening to her stories about the trip. You can see Jessica's pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdickins_photos/ and her comments on her blog http://feelingelephants.wordpress.com/.

One of Jessica's Doha, Qatar photos surprised me. It is of a monument honoring the Qatari traditional coffee pot. This coffee pot looks very similar to one I have in my home office, which my father brought home many years ago from one of his trips to the Middle East. He thinks he bought it on Oman.

Jessica in Doha, Qatar CMU-Q Spring Break

Coffee Pot Monument, Doha

My office coffee pot in San Jose, CA

Images Copyright 2009 by Katy Dickinson and Jessica Dickinson Goodman

Posted at 03:35PM Mar 16, 2009 by katysblog in News & Reviews  |