News Archive: March 2007
ABI’s Newsletter — March 2007
In this issue, we celebrate National Women’s Month by congratulating Frances Allen on winning the Turing Award, and acknowledging Dr. Deborah Estrin, Dr. Leah Jamieson, and Duy-Long Le’s rightful place in history by announcing them as our 2007 Women of Vision Awards recipients. Read the newsletter
Writing Women into History
March is National Women's History month and more women than ever are making their way onto the pages of history books. On the political front, Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House, the U.S. Senate swore-in it's largest-ever contingent of female Senators and Hillary Clinton launched a serious ... Read more
Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Conference
Passion in Computing – Diversity in Innovation In addition to co-locating with the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the fourth Tapia conference is bringing together an exciting technical program inclusive of its famed plenaries, panels, workshops, and BoFs. Technical papers in the specific areas of, but not limited ... Read more
Aspiring TechLeaders: “Realizing Your Vision”
Hillsboro, Oregon; Hosted and Sponsored by Intel - 64 technical women from 9 companies attended this soldout workshop. The workshop offered a unique set of speakers, opportunities to deepen relationships with other technical women in the Pacific Northwest and new skills to help increase the attendee's scope and influence while defining ... Read more
TechLeaders: Washington D.C.
This workshop is for influential women involved with Technology in the Government. It's a time out of time from your careers and lives in order to make them an even better place to return to. Through this interactive event you will establish connections with a large number of powerful ... Read more
TechLeaders: Strategic Persuasion and Change Leadership
This workshop is designed to provide technical women with skills to succeed in accomplishing their goals in negotiations and meetings as well with the capacity to use these skills to effect organizational change. Visit the workshop page Read more
Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society
Presented by the Global Women’s Leadership Network Nancy Hafkin will present what we need to do to unleash the possibility of women as innovators - in a knowledge society and a knowledge economy. Nancy J. Hafkin was on the original team of UN researchers to identify the impact of the intersection of ... Read more