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Welcome from the 2010 Program Co-Chairs
Lori poLLock &
Wendy rannenberg
This week, we gather as students, faculty, researchers, industry and government practitioners
to inspire and learn from each other. We are a community of women in computing with
many contributions to celebrate and opportunities to impact people’s lives throughout the
world. Admiral Grace Murray Hopper is a role model for us all, with great vision, healthy
risk-taking, and perseverance to make a difference and inspire others to join in the pursuit of a better
world through computing.
The 10th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing features award-winning innovators,
who are collaborating across many boundaries as they lead exciting projects at the cutting edge of
computing technologies. This year’s program is distinguished by an increase in technical content with
technical keynotes and three technical tracks – an Open Source Track ending with a Codeathon for
Humanity, a Human-Computer Interface (HCI) Track with a field trip to the GVU Center at Georgia
Tech, and an Invited Technical Speaker Track, which features seven of the most interesting women in
computing today.
Students and faculty are offered a large selection of activities specifically targeted to academics. Students
who are considering or already pursuing research, postdocs, and assistant professors will find valuable
information and advice in CRA-W’s Wednesday afternoon tracks. A special student track and separate
academic track follow through the whole conference, along with additional academic-related sessions
interspersed throughout other tracks.
Those of you from industry will find a wealth of up-to-date technical information along with key
career development advice. The Industry Track and Themed Technical Tracks complement the
Academic Tracks. The challenge for all will be selecting from the 10 parallel tracks! No one should miss
the Poster Session with the Opening Session.
The strong program would not exist without all the work of talented women who are committed
to increasing the participation and success of women in computing. These busy technical women
volunteer numerous hours to organize, review, and make hard decisions to create a strong program for
this conference. We owe a special thanks to all the committee chairs as well all of the members of these
committees.
We specially thank Tracy Camp, the Conference Chair, Christine Chiu and Deanna Kosaraju from ABI
who kept us on track and really are the behind-the-scenes miracle workers for this conference.
We hope that you take home many nuggets and connections from this conference to help you in your
journey to make an impact in the world through computing. Be ready to be inspired and learn from
many successful technical women. Get energized!
Lori Pollock and Wendy Rannenberg
Program Co-Chairs, 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
About Lori Pollock
Lori Pollock is a Professor in CIS
at University of Delaware. For 24
years she has enjoyed mentoring
student
researchers,
teaching CS
with collaborative
classroom
activities and
service learning,
and working to increase the
successful participation of women
in computing research. Her
research focuses on developing
automatic software analyses for
better software maintenance tools,
software testing, and optimizing
compilers for parallel systems.
Lori is Associate Editor for ACM
Transactions on Software Engineering
and Methodology. She was
awarded University of Delaware’s
Excellence in Teaching Award. As a
member of CRA-W, she organized
Career Mentoring and Graduate
Cohort workshops, and served as
co-chair.
About Wendy Rannenberg
Wendy Rannenberg is Director of
Technology for Microlan Systems,
in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
She has 30 years
of engineering
experience
spanning a
wide range
of technology
from submarine
communication systems, software
engineering standards and design
methodologies, to development
of fully internationalized UNIX
operating systems and open source
projects. She has worked with
teams in China, Japan, Israel,
England, France, and Germany.
Wendy has been actively involved
in the promotion of science and
engineering careers for women
and young girls since her days at
the University of Connecticut. She
has been involved in a variety of
capacities with the Grace Hopper
Celebration since its inception in
1994.
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