The 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing concludes today. It officially began on Oct. 19.
The annual conference is one of the world's largest gathering of female technologists. Here are six things to know about the Grace Hopper Celebration.
1. In 1994, Anita Borg, PhD, and Telle Whitney, PhD, cofounded the conference.
2. GHC was inspired by Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, PhD, who was responsible for developing the first compiler used for computer programming language. She was also a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer.
3. The Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery put on the conference each year.
4. This year's conference, held in Houston, featured numerous keynote speakers, including IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Harvard professor Latanya Sweeney, PhD, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and U.S. CTO Megan Smith.
5. Each year, the Anita Borg Institute presents its ABIE Awards, which honor women's various accomplishments in the science and technology fields. Award winners — which include those selected to receive the Social Impact ABIE Award, the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award, the Change Agent ABIE Award, the Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award and the Technical Leadership ABIE Award — were honored at GHC. Click here to view a list of this year's honorees.
6. In 2015, GHC hosted more than 1,300 companies and nearly 12,000 attendees from 63 countries.
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