News Archive: June 2007
TechLeaders Strategic Performance
Have you ever come out of a difficult meeting or negotiation situation regretting the way you handled the communication? I have yet to meet anyone, male or female, who hasn't experienced this in their work or their family life. On June 13 and 14, 60 women representing 19 companies participated in ... Read more
Students and Grace Hopper
One of the reasons that we continue to see an increasing number of Universities support their students to attend the Grace Hopper conference is because of the impact they see the conference has on these students.
United States Congress Honors Fran Allen
The Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. 2006 Turing Award winner and ABI Board of Advisors member Fran Allen has been honored by the United States Congress in the following resolution. 110th CONGRESS 1st ... Read more
Denice Denton Emerging Leaders Award Deadline
The inaugural Denice Denton Award recognizes a man or a woman under the age of 35 who has demonstrated a significant leadership capability and positive impact of the lives of women through technology. More Information Closes Today! Read more
ABI Ambassador Meeting
ABI's Ambassadors program is designed to encourage technical women to increase the outreach and impact of ABI programs. The goal of the June 14, 2007 Ambassadors meeting is to help ABI extend its reach to more junior women in the leadership pipeline by understanding their needs and challenges. It will ... Read more
The Turing Award
Fran Allen and the Turing Award Welcome to our new Anita Borg Institute blog!!! It seems particularly appropriate to write my first blog today, because last Saturday night I had the chance to see Fran Allen receive the Turing award, the Nobel Prize of the Computing discipline. Fran is ... Read more
GHC Scholarship Deadline Extended
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing scholarship applications deadline has been extended to June 18th. See the conference website for details. Read more
Podcast - Keynote Speech by Radia Perlman
At the 2005 Women of Vision Awards, Radia Perlman was honored honored for her innovative work.
Podcast - Keynote Speech by Pamela Samuelson
At the 2005 Women of Vision Awards, Pamela Samuelson was honored for her work’s social impact.
Podcast - Acceptance Speech by Janie Tsao
At the 2005 Women of Vision Awards, Janie was honored for her leadership.