GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING 2002

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS...deadline June 1, 2002

URL: http://www.gracehopper.org

The Institute for Women and Technology▓s

Grace Hopper Celebration of

Women in Computing 2002 is the fourth in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. The conference will take place October 9-12, 2002 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the first international location for the series. The theme for 2002, ⌠Ubiquity,■ focuses on the ubiquity of the impact of computers on our daily lives and the ubiquity of the impact women are making on this technical force.  ⌠I▓m pleased that the program reflects a balance of industry, academia, and government, and of research and development,■ said Amy Pearl, Hopper 2002 Program Chair. ⌠In addition, this time we▓ve had a dramatic increase in participation of women worldwide, notably a number of participants from developing nations.■ The keynote speakers for the Grace Hopper Conference are leaders in their respective fields.  Judy Estrin, CEO of Packet Networks, will give the opening keynote talk. The banquet speaker is Fran Berman, Director of San Diego Supercomputing Center and Professor of Computer Science at University of California San Diego. Leah Jamieson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, will give the Friday keynote talk.

The Conference Registration is now open and can be found on the Grace

Hopper Website: http://www.gracehopper.org

Funding is available for student and junior professional scholarships, which cover conference registration, hotel accommodations, and travel.  Details on the scholarship application process will be available on the Grace Hopper website very soon. The deadline for scholarship applications is June 1, 2002.

The Institute for Women and Technology (http://www.iwt.org) was founded in 1997 by Dr. Anita Borg with a mission to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology and increase the positive impact of technology on the lives of the world▓s women.  The Institute carries out this mission through its Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, Virtual Development Center, Systers online community, and Senior Women▓s Summit.  Sponsors of the Grace Hopper 2002 Conference include Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., National Computational Science Alliance, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is held in cooperation with the Association of Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society.  The Computing Research Association (http://www.cra.org) was the original sponsoring organization of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.