At the Grace Hopper Conference I attended last month, I went to the “Entrepreneurship: The Fundamentals (and Fun) of Idea Generation” breakout session with Denise Brosseau, President & Co-Founder, Invent Your Future Enterprises, a long-time business coach and serial entrepreneur. We went through a few of her exercises aimed to get us thinking about [...]

I recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing Conference in Orlando, FL. Nearly 1,400 women who were undergraduates, PhD students, faculty, staff, and other working professionals gathered to discuss technology and changing the future through computer science, information technology, research and engineering. It wasn’t so much as a “rah rah” [...]

Yesterday was the Mac OS X Leopard Launch. I’m excited to try out the new features of Mail.app, Time Machine, and Spaces, but I haven’t gotten my copy yet. However, I found it somewhat amusing that an hour before the official worldwide launch I got an email from the “Worldwide Developer Relations” team [...]

Earlier this month, a friend of mine who’s on the Board of Berkeley Engineering’s Dean’s Society invited me to accompany him to their event on “The Future of Technology” at the Googleplex.
The talk focused on the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and their involvement with technology. First year engineering courses in the college [...]

Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.)
The focus [...]

geekSessions is yet another tech networking event in the Bay Area. More specifically (according to their site):

A high-end networking event that brings recognized experts from the Web space together to speak on a new topic each session.
A place with smart people and free beer.

Having seen the event topic — Web Infrastructure: Surviving The “Hockey [...]