These women had been spotted roaming around Grace Hopper Celebration, either as speakers or recruiting for the big companies that acquired their startups.

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Last week, Women 2.0 attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore, Maryland alongside literally thousands of women engineers, ranging from college students and academics to working professionals.

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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2011 was the first conference that I noticed had child care in the same building and wished that I had known because I left my nursing baby at home with his Dad.

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During the mid-1900s, Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper invented the first computer compiler which helped computers understand simple commands.

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