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CATEGORIES:Women@CL Events
SUMMARY:Lunch with Beth Hutchison - Beth Hutchison (IBM)
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UID:TALK9995AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/9995
DESCRIPTION:From life as a Cambridge PhD (crystal physics) stu
 dent\, Beth Hutchison found that she enjoyed compu
 ting far more than the physics\, and so spent the 
 next eight years working in a variety of IT compan
 ies\, managing to include a career break spending 
 two glorious summers on a yacht\, cruising the Med
 iterranean''\,  before joining IBM. \n\nAt IBM's U
 K Software Development Lab at Hursley\, Winchester
 \, Beth's career spiralled to the level of Disting
 uished Engineer. She was lead architect for IBM's 
 Java Virtual Machine\, working with Java during it
 s emergence as a vital component of the web techno
 logy we all now take for granted and she is curren
 tly pushing the boundaries of technology as lead a
 rchitect in Web Services.\n\nShe balances work dem
 ands with a passion for sailing\, flying (she qual
 ified as a solo glider pilot in 1992) and golf\, y
 et still makes time to be involved in initiatives 
 to encourage women within the IT profession. Beth 
 won the Women’s Engineering Society’s Karen Burt A
 ward in 2001\, for promoting the profession and co
 ntinues to mentor software professionals\, both wi
 thin and outside IBM\, encouraging them both in te
 rms of their technical interests and their career 
 development\n\nBeth will talk informally about her
  career and how she got to be where she is today. 
 Come along and find out what it's like to work at 
 IBM from one of its senior leaders and inventors.\
 n
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Roo
 m FW26
CONTACT:Fiona Billingsley
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