London Hopper Colloquium

UCL Contact: Steve Marchant (Visitors from outside UCL please email in advance).
Date/Time: 25 May 16, 10:00 - 16:00
Venue: 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, Lond
Further Information:

UCL Computer Science and the BCS Academy will be presenting the 12th. London Hopper Colloquium on Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at the BCS headquarters in London. This 1-day event will feature women speakers talking about their research, a spotlight competition open to women research masters students and PhD students, and lots of opportunities to network with other new researchers in computing. The London Hopper Colloquia grew out of the Scottish Hopper Colloquia, and are modelled on the American Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing which is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. These annual American meetings are held as a tribute to Admiral Grace Murray Hopper - pioneer of the computer business language COBOL - who inspired many young U.S. Naval computing students during her heyday and still continues to inspire computer scientists around the world many years after her death.