VISUALIZATION

Submissions are still being accepted for the 7th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference (October 17-20, 2007 – Orlando, Florida). http://gracehopper.org NEW Submission Deadlines are April 15th and April 29th, 2007. As The world's largest gathering of women in computing, the Grace Hopper Celebration is a technical conference featuring well-known keynote speakers and invited technical speakers, panels, workshops, new investigator technical papers, Ph.D. forums, technical posters, birds of a feather sessions (BOFs), the ACM Student Research Competition and Awards Celebrations. I INVENT THE FUTURE This year’s theme, “I Invent the Future”, recognizes and celebrates the significant role women have in the creation, use and leadership of computing and technology. Submissions on both technical and professional topics are encouraged. The Grace Hopper Program committee is requesting submissions that reflect the conference theme “I Invent the Future” 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. The Deadlines for all submissions has been extended as follows: Ph.D. Forum April 29, 2007 Panels, Workshops, and Presentations April 15, 2007 Technical Posters April 29, 2007 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) April 29, 2007 Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) April 29, 2007 New Investigator Technical Papers April 29, 2007 Keynote speakers: Donna Dubinsky, Founder and CEO of Numenta, Former President and CEO of Palm Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College.Conference Leadership: General Chair - Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women & Information Technology Program Chair - Anne Condon, University of British Columbia Pre-conference events: Bridge Day: The Grace Hopper Celebration is co-located with the Richard Tapia Conference. Bridge Day creates a space where attendees from both Conferences can attend sessions of mutual interest to all attendees. TechLeaders: Promotes and enhances leadership skills for technical women at all levels. Brings together powerful women exercising major influence on technology from industry, government and academia. Provides a venue where women leaders meet to share ideas, tactics, and strategies and expand and deepen relationships with peers in the technical community. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) and is co-presented with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). http://gracehopper.org