Colorado: Grace Hopper

This year, I organized a trip funded by my department to take seven of our women students to the grace hopper conference in Keystone, Colorado. Every year, this conference gets more impressive. It's really a "celebration" of women in computing. This year, I think there were 1400+ attendees (even some men who think promoting women in computing is an important venture). There are a few technical talks, but a lot of the conference program is on a variety of not-so-technical subjects (like how to navigate the tenure process, how to build a solid outreach program, etc.) and many sessions dedicated for students (how to get started in research, how to handle issues like maternity leave as a graduate student, etc.). It's especially cool for the students because they get to "network," and meet all kinds of people in academia and industry. It was also great for two other reasons: they provide day care (yay!) and Jamie was there. Here are some photos of our visit: