Monday, March 30, 2009  GHC: The Largest Gathering of Women in
Computing You'll Ever See  It's not all that often that you get
to see a couple thousand women in computing all gathered
together in one location, so you can understand how excited I
was about getting myself to the Grace Hopper Celebration of
Women in Computing last year in Keystone, Colorado. Well, I did
manage to attend, along with the other three executives at the
time from Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering, mostly
thanks to the mantra of 'ask, ask, and ask again'! (Check out my
posts about last year's conference as well as the CU-WISE blog's
posts.)  This is an incredible experience for any woman in
computer science or engineering. There are technical talks on a
wide variety of topics, and other more general issues are
discussed from work-life balance to new outreach initiatives. If
you happen to be one of the many males in engineering, this
conference might still interest you. Though the guys who attend
have to contend with the para