What is Grace Hopper Celebration and why should you know about it?
With a Caffè Mocha in one hand, waiting at Gate 34 to board my flight from Orlando back to Chicago on Friday evening, I had a meltdown; I could not sink in the fact that I attended my first ever Grace Hopper Celebration! With that very thought and my heart still racing, I began writing this blog on what is Grace Hopper Celebration and why you should know about it?
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. GHC 2019 was hosted from October 1 — 4 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Grace Hopper Celebration commemorates, celebrates, fosters and encourages the magnificent women in technology who dared to shed their inhibitions and recognized the genius in them.
Who was Grace Hopper?
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906–1992) was an American computer scientist, United States Navy rear admiral and the inventor of the first compiler, a program that translates programming code to machine language. Her invention led to the creation of the COBOL programming language, which was one of the first high-level programming languages. She was amongst the first women in technology who refused to be defined by others and their expectations from her.
