Grace Hopper Conference

Call for Participation: March 16 Deadline
http://gracehopper.org/2008/participate/call-for-participation/

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
October 1-4, 2008
Keystone Colorado

As the world's largest gathering of women in computing, the Grace Hopper Celebration is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. The technical conference features well known keynote speakers and invited technical speakers, panels, workshops, new investigator technical papers, PhD forums, technical posters, birds of a feather sessions (BOFs), the ACM Student Research Competition and an Awards Celebration.

This year's theme "We Build a Better World" recognizes the significant role women play in creating and utilizing technology to improve our world.

Submissions on both technical and professional topics are encouraged. The Grace Hopper Conference committee is requesting submissions that reflect the conference theme "We Build a Better World" in the areas of innovation within a company, academia, or individual contribution through social and environmental entrepreneurship. The GHC Committee encourages technical submissions that cross disciplines and other boundaries.

* PhD Forum
* Panels, Workshops and Presentations
* Technical Posters
* ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
* Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs)
* New Investigator Technical Papers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

* Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CTO, One Laptop Per Child
* Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita and 2007 Turing Award Winner

CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP:

* General Chair - Anne Condon, University of British Columbia
* Program Chair - Heidi Kvinge, Intel

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and is co-presented with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
For more information and submission guidelines, please visit http://gracehopper.org/2008/participate/call-for-participation/

The Computing Research Association is a founding sponsor of the Conference.