September 21, 2008 - The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) conference will be held in Tucson, Arizona, September 30 - October 3, 2009. Twenty-four Sun employees will attend this year's conference, including Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos, who will present an invited technical talk on his new book — Citizen Engineer, A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering . Co-authored by Dave Douglas and John Boutelle, Citizen Engineer examines the rapidly changing engineering world and provides practical advice to help engineers of all types master the requirements to succeed in this new era.

Sun's GHC 2009 attendees will participate in a variety of presentations, panels, poster sessions and BOFs (see list below). Susan Landau, Sun Distinguished Engineer, will also present an invited technical talk — Bits and Bites: Explaining Communications Security (and Insecurity) in Washington and Brussels. The full GHC program is available from the Conference website.

Women Ph.D. Students Win Scholarships to Grace Hopper Conference

This is the second year that the at Sun Labs has awarded Grace Hopper Conference scholarships to two women interested in hardware development. These scholarships underscore Sun's promotion and support for computer hardware research.

The students are Taniya Siddiqua, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Virginia, and Lamia M. Youseff, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The scholarships, up to US $1500 each, will cover travel and registration for the two women students to attend GHC 2009. This will be the first trip to a Grace Hopper Conference for both students, and Taniya will present a poster session — "Dynamic NBTI Management in Multicore Processor".

Taniya Siddiqua

Taniya Siddiqua graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering in June 2005. She worked as a Lecturer in BRAC University, Bangladesh for two years before joining the PhD program at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Fall 2007. In September 2009, Taniya received the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Award, as well her Master of Science in Computer Science degree with a thesis entitled "Balancing Soft Error Coverage with Lifetime Reliability in Redundantly Multithreaded Processors". Currently she is working on processor reliability. Her main interest lies in the interface between the microarchitecture layer and the circuit layer of the processor. Taniya will present a poster session — "Dynamic NBTI Management in Multicore Processor" — at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Tuscon.

Lamia M. Youseff

Currently a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Lamia M. Youseff's research interests include operating systems, high performance computing and virtualization techniques. Her doctoral research is focused on virtualization aspects for scientific and HPC applications, and her dissertation topic is "Shared Memory Language-level Support for Next Generation Virtualized Heterogeneous Multi-core Systems." Lamia received her B.Sc., Summa Cum Laude, from The American University in Cairo (AUC). As a graduation project, she led a team of five students which built the first Grid in Africa and the Middle East. In 2003 Lamia received the prestigious UC Chancellor Graduate Fellowship award to pursue her graduate career at UCSB. She has worked as a research and teaching assistant at the department of computer science at UCSB. She is a member of both ACM and IEEE.

About the Grace Hopper Conference:

The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing is presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery. Co-founded by Dr. Anita Borg and Dr. Telle Whitney in 1994 and inspired by the legacy of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the GHC Conference is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. The world's largest gathering of technical women in computing, the GHC Conference is a premier event for ABI sponsors to recruit new talent, promote their organization, and inspire their workforce.

For more information:

Visit the Grace Hopper 2009 website

Download the GHC Conference Program