CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Washington, DC

9:00 - Introduction, Anita Borg, Digital Equipment Corp.

9:15 - Keynote: "Stategic Defense Research" - Anita Jones, Department of Defense

10:00 - Break

10:30 - "The Possibilites of Massively Parallel Computing" - Mary Jane Irwin, Penn. State

11:10 - "Finding the Information Wood in Natural Language Trees" - Karen Spark-Jones, Univ. of Cambridge

11:50 - "Compilers: The Past as Predictor of the Future" - Fran Allen, IBM

12:30 - Lunch

1:45 - "Robots: What Can They Do?" - Ruzena Bajcsy, Univ. of Penn.

2:25 - "Abstraction and Codification in Software Engineering" - Mary Shaw, CMU

3:05 - "Computer-supported Cooperative Work" - Irene Greif, Lotus

3:45 - Break

4:15 - "Making Electronic Learning Environments Succeed for Girls and Boys" - Maria Klawe, Univ. of British Columbia

4:55 - Susan Graham, Univ. of California

7:00- Gala Banquet sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation - Banquet Speaker: Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT

9:00 - Introduction, Telle Whitney

9:15 - "Structure of Distributed Programs" - Barbara Liskov, MIT

9:55 - Elaine Cohen, Univ. of Utah

10:35 - Break

11:05 - "The Importance of Objects and Models on Complex Software Systems" - Adele Goldberg, Parc Place

11:45 - Shafi Goldwasser, MIT

12:25 - Lunch

1:40 - Panel: "The Management Option"

3:10 - Break

3:40 - "Collaborative Plans and Dialogue Participation" - Barbara Grosz, Harvard

4:20 - "A Dual-Edged Sword" - Dorothy Denning, Georgetown

5:00 - "The Importance of Safety in Software and its Impact on Software Design" - Nancy Leveson, Univ. of Wash

7:00- Buffet Reception at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

9:00 - 12:30 - Workshops (topics listed below)

Lunch

2:00 - 5:30 - Workshops (topics listed below)

Workshop Topics (schedule not yet available)