The Women in Technology International Hall of Fame was established in 1996 by

Women in Technology International Women in Technology International (WITI) is an organization promoting the achievements of women in technology and extending support, opportunities, and inspiration. It was founded by Carolyn Leighton in 1989 as the International Network of Women in ...

(WITI) to honor women who contribute to the fields of science and technology.

Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees

1996

* Ruth Leach Amonette (1916–2004), IBM's first woman vice president (1943–1953) * Dr. Eleanor K. Baum (1940–), American electrical engineer and educator. First female dean of ( Cooper Union) School of Engineering.Hatch, Sybil E. (2006). ''Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers.'' ASCE Publications, Proffitt, Pamela (1999). ''Notable Women Scientists.'' Gale Group, First female president of the

American Society for Engineering Education The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education. The purpose of ASEE is the advancement of education ...

* Dr. Jaleh Daie (1948–), managing partner, Aurora Equity, a Palo Alto-based investment company financing technology start ups. Treasurer of US Space Foundation (first woman appointed to its board of directors). Member of

Band of Angels ''Band of Angels'' is a 1957 psychological drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier ...

* Dr. Barbara Grant, venture capitalist, former vice president and general manager in the Data Storage Division at IBM * Stephanie L. Kwolek (1923–2014), inventor of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide (

Kevlar Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s a ...

) * Dr.

Misha Mahowald Michelle Anne Mahowald (January 12, 1963 – December 26, 1996) was an American computational neuroscientist in the emerging field of neuromorphic engineering. In 1996 she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame f ...

(1963–1996), computational neuroscientist * Linda Sanford (1953–), IBM Enterprise Transformation (see als
Linda Sanford's Oral History Interview
* Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers (1953–), Under Secretary for Technology, US Commerce Department (1999–2001) * Dr.

Sheila Widnall Sheila Marie Evans Widnall (born July 13, 1938) is an American aerospace researcher and Institute Professor Emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She served as United States Secretary of the Air Force from 1993 to 1997, maki ...

(1938–), American

aerospace Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space. Aerospace activity is very diverse, with a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications. Aerospace engineering consists of aeronautics and astr ...

researcher and

Institute Professor An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

United States Secretary of the Air Force The secretary of the Air Force, sometimes referred to as the secretary of the Department of the Air Force, (SecAF, or SAF/OS) is the head of the Department of the Air Force and the service secretary for the United States Air Force and United ...

(1993–1997) (first female Secretary of the Air Force). First woman to lead an entire branch of the U.S. military in the

Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to: Current departments of defence * Department of Defence (Australia) * Department of National Defence (Canada) * Department of Defence (Ireland) * Department of National Defense (Philipp ...

* Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), Chinese-American

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

who worked on

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

1997

* Frances Allen (1932–2020), American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of

optimizing compilers In computing, an optimizing compiler is a compiler that tries to minimize or maximize some attributes of an executable computer program. Common requirements are to minimize a program's execution time, memory footprint, storage size, and power cons ...

(see als
Frances Allen's Oral History Interview
*

Carol Bartz Carol Ann Bartz (born August 28, 1948) is an American business executive, former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk. ...

(1948– ), former president and CEO of

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Manage ...

, former chairman, president and CEO at

Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartere ...

* The

ENIAC ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. There were other computers that had these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one pac ...

Programmers: The original six women programmers of

(Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), first general-purpose electronic digital computer **

Kathleen Antonelli Kathleen Rita Antonelli ( McNulty; formerly Mauchly; 12 February 1921 – 20 April 2006), known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish-born American computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purp ...

(1921–2006) ** Jean Jennings Bartik (1924–2011) ** Frances Snyder Holberton (1917–2001) ** Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922–2008) ** Frances Bilas Spence (1922–2012) ** Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum (1924–1986) * Pamela Meyer Lopker, founder, president and chairman of the board, QAD Inc., an

Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software—typically a sui ...

/ manufacturing

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. ...

company * Marcia Neugebauer (1932–), American geophysicist whose research yielded first direct measurements of

solar wind The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy between . The composition of the sol ...

and shed light on its physics and interaction with

comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena ...

* Donna Shirley (1941–), former manager of

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...

Exploration at the

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...

(see als
Donna Shirley Oral History Interview at NASA Oral History Project: "Herstory"Donna Shirley Interviews, Mars Exploration Program
* Shaunna Sowell, former vice president and manager of Worldwide

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...

Facilities,

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globa ...

Patty Stonesifer Patricia Q. Stonesifer (born 1956) is the former president and CEO of Martha's Table, a non-profit in Washington, D.C., that provides community-based solutions to poverty. Stonesifer currently advises business, nonprofit and government leaders o ...

(1956–), former co-chair and chief executive officer of

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was ...

, current president and CEO of Martha's Table * Patricia Wallington, former corporate vice president and CIO,

Xerox Corporation Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Sta ...

* Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921–2011), American

medical physicist A medical physicist is a health professional with specialist education and training in the concepts and techniques of applying physics in medicine and competent to practice independently in one or more of the subfields (specialties) of medical phys ...

, and co-winner of 1977

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...

(together with

Roger Guillemin Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924) is a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year ...

and Andrew Schally) for development of the

radioimmunoassay A radioimmunoassay (RIA) is an immunoassay that uses radiolabeled molecules in a stepwise formation of immune complexes. A RIA is a very sensitive in vitro assay technique used to measure concentrations of substances, usually measuring antigen conc ...

(RIA) technique. She was the second American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine after

Gerty Cori Gerty Theresa Cori (; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austro-Hungarian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me ...

1998

Barack Obama greets Burton Richter and Mildred Dresselhaus (cropped)

* Dr.

Anita Borg Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 – April 6, 2003) was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Education and early life Borg was born Anita Borg Naf ...

(1949–2003), American computer scientist who founded the Institute for Women and Technology (now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology) and the

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. It is the world's largest gathering of women in computing. The celebra ...

* Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus (1930–2017),

and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) in the area of condensed matter physics at

. (see also Vegas Science Trustbr>video interviews with scientists: Mildred Dresselhaus
* Dr. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemic ...

; 1988 recipient of

. Research led to the development of AIDS drug

AZT Zidovudine (ZDV), also known as azidothymidine (AZT), is an antiretroviral medication used to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. It is generally recommended for use in combination with other antiretrovirals. It may be used to prevent mother-to-child ...

Julie Spicer England Julie Spicer England (born November 12, 1957) is an American chemical engineer and business executive, who served as Vice President of Texas Instruments Incorporated. Born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, England obtained her BA in Chemical Engin ...

former vice president, Texas Instruments, Incorporated General Manager, RFid Systems * Eleanor Francis Helin (1932–2009), American

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either ...

who was principal investigator of

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects. NEAT was conducted from December 1995 until April 2007, at GEODSS on Hawaii (Haleakala-NEAT; 566), as we ...

(NEAT) program of

1999

Yvonne Claeys Brill Yvonne Madelaine Brill (née Claeys; December 30, 1924 – March 27, 2013) was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Resistojet rocket, Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a f ...

(1924–2013), Canadian scientist known for development of rocket and jet propulsion technologies at

and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.QMI AGENCY
"Pioneer Canadian rocket scientist dead at age 88"
''

The Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Postmedia Place in ...

'', March 27, 2013 (see als
National Science & Technology Medals Foundation video
* Sherita T. Ceasar, Vice President Product Engineering Planning and Strategy,

Comcast Communications Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

* Dr.

Thelma Estrin Thelma Estrin (née Austern; February 21, 1924 – February 15, 2014) was an American computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical engineering. Estrin was one of the first to apply compute ...

(1924–2014), computer scientist and engineer who pioneered work in expert systems and

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

. She was one of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research * Dr. Claudine Simson, former executive vice president, chief technology officer,

LSI Corporation LSI Logic Corporation, an American company founded in Milpitas, California, was a pioneer in the ASIC and EDA industries. It evolved over time to design and sell semiconductors and software that accelerated storage and networking in data center ...

; current Director & Business Development Executive, Research and IP, Worldwide Growth Markets, IBM Corporation *

Yukako Uchinaga is a Japanese businesswoman, best known for her long career at IBM Japan. Career Yukako Uchinaga graduated from the University of Tokyo (1971) with a degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is ...

, vice president, IBM's Yamato Software Development Laboratory (see als
Yukako Uchinaga's Oral History Interview

2000

* Dr.

Bonnie Dunbar Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar (born March 3, 1949) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the ''Mir'' space station. Since leaving NASA, she has worke ...

(1949–), former

astronaut; former president and CEO of The Museum of Flight. Leads the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the university in Texas with over 47,000 students. Its campus, which is primarily in s ...

's STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and math) and joined the faculty of the Cullen College of Engineering. (see als
Q&A with Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering
* Dr. Irene Greif, founder of field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

IBM Fellow An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM's CEO. Typically only four to nine (eleven in 2014) IBM Fellows are appointed each year, in May or June. Fellow is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achiev ...

; director
Collaborative User Experience research and IBM Center for Social Business
* Dr.

Darleane C. Hoffman Darleane Christian Hoffman (born November 8, 1926) is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrenc ...

(1926–), American

nuclear chemist Nuclear chemistry is the sub-field of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes, and transformations in the nuclei of atoms, such as nuclear transmutation and nuclear properties. It is the chemistry of radioactive elements such as ...

among researchers who confirmed existence of

Seaborgium Seaborgium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Sg and atomic number 106. It is named after the American nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. As a synthetic element, it can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. It is al ...

, element 106 * Dr. Jennie S. Hwang, first woman to receive Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University's Materials Science and Engineering; expert in surface-mount technology * Dr.

Shirley Ann Jackson Shirley Ann Jackson, (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

(1946–), president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. American

. First

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...

to serve as chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, elected to U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and to receive

Vannevar Bush Award The National Science Board established the Vannevar Bush Award ( ) in 1980 to honor Vannevar Bush's unique contributions to public service. The annual award recognizes an individual who, through public service activities in science and technolog ...

. She is first

woman to lead a top-50 national research university

2001

* Duy-Loan Le (1962–),

Vietnamese American Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

and first woman and Asian to be elected to rank of

Senior Fellow A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...

* Janet Perna, former general manager of information management solutions at BMspecializing in

distributed database A distributed database is a database in which data is stored across different physical locations. It may be stored in multiple computers located in the same physical location (e.g. a data centre); or maybe dispersed over a network of interconnect ...

systems / IBM DB2 (see als
Janet Perna's oral history
* Darlene Solomon, senior vice president, chief technology officer,

Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an American life sciences company that provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. Its global headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California. Agilent was establi ...

specializing in Bio-analytical and electronic measurement

2002

* Judy Estrin, American business executive, JLabs, LLC. Former chief technology officer for

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

* Dr. Caroline Kovac, former general manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences (see als
Caroline Kovac's oral history
* Dr. Elaine Surick Oran, senior scientist, Reactive Flow Physics, U.S. Naval Research Lab, Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics

2003

Chieko Asakawa (b. 1958) is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility.. A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available. S ...

(1958–),

. Group Leader, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Accessibility Research; developed IBM Home Page Reader, a self-voicing

web browser A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used o ...

designed for people who are blind (see also Japanese Wikipedia entry) * Wanda Gass,

Fellow; executive director and founder, High-Tech High Heels ("HTHH"), a

donor-advised fund In the United States, a donor-advised fund (commonly called a DAF) is a charitable giving vehicle administered by a public charity created to manage charitable donations on behalf of organizations, families, or individuals. To participate in a don ...

at Dallas Women's Foundation that funds programs to prepare girls to pursue degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) (see als
Wanda Gass oral history
* Dr. Kristina M. Johnson (1957-), American former government official, academic, engineer, and business executive * Shirley C. McCarty, aerospace consultant

2004

*Dr. Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D. (1939–), founder of modern plant

biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used ...

and

genetic modification Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including t ...

; known as the "queen of ''

Agrobacterium ''Agrobacterium'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria established by H. J. Conn that uses horizontal gene transfer to cause tumors in plants. '' Agrobacterium tumefaciens'' is the most commonly studied species in this genus. ''Agrobacterium'' i ...

''" * Eileen Gail de Planque, Ph.D. (1944–2010), expert on environmental radiation measurements; first woman and first health

to become a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner; technical areas of expertise include solid state

dosimetry Radiation dosimetry in the fields of health physics and radiation protection is the measurement, calculation and assessment of the ionizing radiation dose absorbed by an object, usually the human body. This applies both internally, due to ingested ...

, radiation transport and shielding, environmental radiation, nuclear facilities monitoring and problems of reactor and personnel

* Dr. Pat Selinger,

; American computer scientist best known for her work on

relational database management systems A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...

(see als
Patricia Selinger oral history
* Judy Shaw, director, CMOS Module Development at

* Dr.

Susan Solomon Susan Solomon (born January 19, 1956 in Chicago) is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech ...

(1956–2010), atmospheric chemist; first to propose

chlorofluorocarbon Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) are fully or partly halogenated hydrocarbons that contain carbon (C), hydrogen (H), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivatives of methane, ethane, and pro ...

free radical A daughter category of ''Ageing'', this category deals only with the biological aspects of ageing. Ageing Ailments of unknown cause Biogerontology Biological processes Causes of death Cellular processes Gerontology Life extension Metabo ...

reaction mechanism as cause of Antarctic

ozone hole Ozone depletion consists of two related events observed since the late 1970s: a steady lowering of about four percent in the total amount of ozone in Earth's atmosphere, and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone (the ozone lay ...

2005

* Barbara Bauer, technology innovation, software development, global management * Sonja Bernhardt OAM (1959–), Australian

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...

executive; founder and Inaugural President of WiT (Women in Technology) in

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

* Sandra Burke Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist, former pre-clinical cardiovascular researcher at Abbott Vascular's Research and Advanced Development; developed drug-coated stent

intravascular The blood vessels are the components of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body. These vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to the tissues of the body. They also take waste and carbon dioxide away f ...

stents In medicine, a stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent. A wide variety of stents are used for different purposes, from expanda ...

for treatment of

restenosis Restenosis is the recurrence of stenosis, a narrowing of a blood vessel, leading to restricted blood flow. Restenosis usually pertains to an artery or other large blood vessel that has become narrowed, received treatment to clear the blockage and s ...

* Melendy Lovett, senior vice president of

; president of

's worldwide Education Technology business; STEM education and workforce advocate, High-Tech High Heels (HTHH) * Amparo Moraleda Martínez (1964–), former COO

Iberdrola Iberdrola () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. Iberdrola has a workforce of around 34,000 employees serving around 31.67 million customers. Subsidiaries include Scottish Power (United Kingdom) ...

International Division; former president for Southern Europe, IBM (see also Spanish language Wikipedia entry) * Neerja Raman, global manufacturing and poverty. Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University; advisor, Committee for Cyber-Infrastructure,

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

; formerly HP Labs

2006

* Maria Azua, former IBM Vice President of Advanced Cloud Solutions, former IBM VP of Technology & Innovation; patent in

Transcoder Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for video data files, audio files (e.g., MP3, WAV), or character encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO/IEC 8859). This is usually done in cases where a target devi ...

technology, Java implementation and enhancements, data manipulation *

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (; born 30 July 1947) is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (french: Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) and Professor at the in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, Barré-Sino ...

(1947–) French

virologist Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, thei ...

; director of Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) at

Institut Pasteur The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines f ...

(2008) for discovery of virus responsible for

HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...

* Kim Jones, former president and managing director for Sun Microsystems UK & Ireland; former VP of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences, Sun Microsystems; chairman of the board and chief executive officer of

Curriki Curriki is an online, free, open education service. Curriki is structured as a nonprofit organization to provide open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 education. Curricula and instructional materials are available at the Curriki ...

* Nor Rae Spohn, former SVP Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Printing Business *Dr. Been-Jon Woo, director, Technology Integration & Development,

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

2007

* Dr. Wanda M. Austin (1954–), first

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

President and CEO,

The Aerospace Corporation The Aerospace Corporation is an American nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in El Segundo, California. The corporation provides technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space mi ...

Helen Greiner Helen Greiner (born December 6, 1967) is a co-founder of iRobot and former CEO of CyPhy Work, Inc., a start-up company specializing in small multi-rotor drones for the consumer, commercial and military markets. Ms Greiner is currently the CEO of ...

(1967–), co-founder of

iRobot iRobot Corporation is an American technology company that designs and builds consumer robots. It was founded in 1990 by three members of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, who designed robots for space exploration and military defense. The com ...

; CEO of CyPhyWorks, maker of the hover drone. Director of the board, Open Source Robotics Foundation (see also National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
Interview with Helen Greiner
*

Lucy Sanders Lucinda "Lucy" Sanders (born 1954) is the current CEO and a co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. She is the recipient of many distinguished honors in the STEM fields, including induction into the US News STEM Lea ...

, CEO and co-founder of National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT); Executive-in-Residence for ATLAS Institute at

University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...

Padmasree Warrior Padmasree Warrior (born Yellepeddi Padmasree) is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she served as the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where ...

, chief technology and strategy officer of

; former CTO of

Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorol ...

, Inc.

2008

* Deborah Estrin (1959–), Ph.D., works in networked sensors. First academic faculty member at

Cornell Tech Cornell Tech is a technology, business, law, and design campus of Cornell University located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City. It includes the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a joint academic venture between Cornell and the Tec ...

; founding director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing,

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

. Winner of a 2018

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

. * Dr. Susan P. Fisher-Hoch (1940-), expert on infectious diseases; professor of epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health *

Mary Lou Jepsen Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965) is a technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware. Her contributions have had worldwide adoption in head-mounted display, HDTV, laptop computers, and projector products; ...

, head of Display Division at

Google X Lab X Development LLC (formerly Google X) is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010, which now operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. X has its headquarters about a mile and ...

;

founder Founder or Founders may refer to: Places *Founders Park, a stadium in South Carolina, formerly known as Carolina Stadium * Founders Park, a waterside park in Islamorada, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * Founders (''Star Trek''), the ali ...

of Pixel Qi, a manufacturer of low-cost, low-power LCD screens for laptops; co-founder and first Chief Technology Officer One Laptop per Child (OLPC) (see also TEDbr>talk
*

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic ( sr-cyr, Гордана Вуњак Новаковић) is a Serbian American biomedical engineer and university professor. She is a University Professor at Columbia University, as well as the Mikati Foundation Professor o ...

Serbian American Serbian Americans ( sr, / ) or American Serbs (), are Americans of Serb ethnic ancestry. As of 2013, there were about 190,000 American citizens who identified as having Serb ancestry. However, the number may be significantly higher, as there w ...

professor of

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

; director, Columbia's Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering. Areas of research: tissue engineering, bioreactors, biophysical regulation, tissue development, stem cell research. * Jian (Jane) Xu, Ph.D., CTO, IBM China Systems and Technology Labs; Distinguished Engineer of IBM Watson Research, focusing on the research of IT and Wireless Convergence

2009

* Patricia S. Cowings (1948–), first African-American female scientist to be trained as an astronaut payload specialist; Research Psychologist, Human Systems Integrations Division,

NASA Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) labora ...

* Maxine Fassberg, vice president, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Fab 28 Plant manager; general manager,

Israel * Dr. Sharon Nunes, VP, IBM's Smarter Cities Strategy & Solutions, which focuses on improving quality of life at urban centers worldwide by partnering with city governments to improve transportation, waste management and energy use * Dr. Carolyn Turbyfill, VP Engineering, Stacksafe

2010

* Sandy Carter, IBM's worldwide VP, Social Business Evangelism and Sales
IBM’s Social Business initiative
* Dr. Ruth A. David, president and CEO, ANSER (Analytic Services Inc); Member,

Homeland Security Advisory Council The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It was created by an Executive Order In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the president of the Unite ...

; former deputy director for Science and Technology,

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

. * Adele Goldberg (1945–), computer scientist; participated in developing

programming language A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be graphical. They are a kind of computer language. The description of a programming ...

Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of ...

while a researcher at

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Sta ...

(PARC), in the 1970s, then founding chairman, ParcPlace Systems, Inc. *

Susie Wee Susie J. Wee (born ca. 1970) is an American technology expert. In 2011, she became the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer (CTEO) of Collaboration at Cisco Systems. In 2018, she became the Senior Vice President and Chief Tec ...

, CTO,

; former CTO, Client Cloud Services, HP Labs. Focus on streaming media; co-edited JPSEC standard for

JPEG-2000 JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system. It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group committee chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president), with the intention of superseding the ...

image security (see also TEDbr>TEDxBayArea Women talk
* Dr.

Ruth Westheimer Karola Ruth Westheimer ( Siegel; born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish fam ...

(born Karola Siegel (born 1928); known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American

sex therapist Sex therapy is a strategy for the improvement of sexual function and treatment of sexual dysfunction. This includes sexual dysfunctions such as premature ejaculation or delayed ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, lack of sexual interest or arousa ...

, talk show host, author, professor,

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

, and former Haganah sniper.Barron, James.
Art/Architecture: Some Things Never Age. Just Ask Dr. Ruth
" ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' 13 December 1998.

2011

* Alicia Abella, Ph.D., executive director, Innovative Services Research,

AT&T Labs AT&T Labs is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including: Bedminster NJ; Middletown, NJ; Manhattan, NY; Warrenville, IL; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Atla ...

; Member, President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics *

Evelyn Berezin Evelyn Berezin (April 12, 1925 – December 8, 2018) was an American computer designer of the first computer-driven word processor. She also worked on computer-controlled systems for airline reservations. Early life and education Berezin was ...

(1925–2018), American

computer engineer Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and computer software, software. C ...

best known for designing one of the first

word processor A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current ...

s. She also helped design some of the first

computer reservations system Computer reservation systems, or central reservation systems (CRS), are computerized systems used to store and retrieve information and conduct transactions related to air travel, hotels, car rental, or other activities. Originally designed and ope ...

s, computer data systems for

bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

s; Management Consultant
Brookhaven Science Associates
(BSA) (BSA manages

Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment c ...

for

Department of Energy A Ministry of Energy or Department of Energy is a government department in some countries that typically oversees the production of fuel and electricity; in the United States, however, it manages nuclear weapons development and conducts energy-re ...

Office of Science The Office of Science is a component of the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The Office of Science is the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the Nation’s largest supporter of basic research in t ...

) * Diane Pozefsky, Ph.D., research professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina; specialized in networking technologies at IBM (see als
IBM Diane Pozefsky oral history
* Sophie V. Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and president, Xerox Innovation Group,

Lynda Weinman Lynda Susan Weinman (born January 24, 1955) is an American business owner, computer instructor, and author, who founded an online software training website, lynda.com, with her husband, Bruce Heavin. Lynda.com was acquired by online business net ...

(1955–), co-founder and executive chair,

Lynda.com LinkedIn Learning is an American online learning provider. It provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. All the courses on LinkedIn fall into four categories: Bus ...

, an online software training web site

2012

Genevieve Bell Genevieve Bell is an Australian cultural anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice research and technological development (including as a pioneer in the field of futurist research), and for being an industry ...

, Ph.D., Australian anthropologist and researcher.

Fellow; director, User Interaction and Experience, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation * Joanne Martin, Ph.D. (1947–). Served on management team that developed and delivered IBM's first supercomputer, with specific responsibility for the performance measurement and analysis of the system. Distinguished Engineer and VP of Technology, IBM Corporation *

Jane Lubchenco Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-be ...

(1947-), Ph.D.

Ukrainian-American Ukrainian Americans ( uk, Українські американці, Ukrayins'ki amerykantsi) are Americans who are of Ukrainian ancestry. According to U.S. census estimates, in 2021 there were 1,017,586 Americans of Ukrainian descent represen ...

environmental scientist Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

and marine

ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

; first woman administrator of

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA ) is an United States scientific and regulatory agency within the United States Department of Commerce that forecasts weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditio ...

(NOAA); (see also Charlie Rosebr>interview
; Haas Distinguished Visitor, Stanford University *

Gwynne Shotwell Gwynne Shotwell ( Rowley; born November 23, 1963) is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operation ...

(1963-), president, SpaceX (see als
Shotwell: The Future of Space talk at Northwestern

2013

The Next Three Billion- Marian Croak speaking

Marian Croak Marian Rogers Croak is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. She was previously the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at AT&T.Croak Fact Sheet. (n.d.). 10 Things You Need to Know About Marian Croak DF file https://www.invent ...

, senior vice president of applications and services infrastructure at

Peggy Johnson Peggy Johnson currently serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Magic Leap, succeeding Rony Abovitz in Sept 2020. Before joining Magic Leap, she held the position of Executive Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft. Educat ...

, executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies and president of Global Market Development * Lisa McVey, CIO of Enterprise Information Systems, Enterprise Medical Imaging, Automation, McKesson Corporation * Heidi Roizen (1958-), Venture Partner of

Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. In January 2019, DFJ Venture, the early-stage team, spun out and formed Threshold Ventures. DFJ Growth ...

* Laura Sanders, general manager of delivery engineering and technology and CTO for Global Technology Services, IBM Corporation

2014

Orna Berry Orna Berry ( he, ארנה ברי; born December 19, 1949), is an Israeli computer scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and senior executive in the Israeli science and technology industries. In 1996, Berry became the first woman to serve as chief sc ...

(1949-), Israeli corporate vice president, growth and innovation, EMC Centers of Excellence EMEA,

EMC Corporation Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, clo ...

Jennifer Pahlka Jennifer Pahlka (born 27 December 1969) is the founder and former Executive Director of Code for America. She served as US Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and helped found the United States Digital Service. Previously ...

(1969-), founder and executive director,

Code for America Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organiza ...

* Kim Polese (1961-), chair, ClearStreet *

Kris Rinne Kris Rinne is a technology person and retired Senior VP of network technology at AT&T Labs AT&T Labs is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including: ...

, senior vice president, network and product planning, AT&T Services, Inc. *

Lauren States Lauren States (born 1956) is a former Chief of Technology and then Vice President of Strategy and Transformation for IBM's Software Group Division. Life States has held numerous senior executive positions within IBM Software Group, IBM Corpora ...

, vice president, strategy and transformation, IBM Software Group

2015

* Cheemin Bo-Linn, president and CEO, Peritus Partners *

Nichelle Nichols Nichelle Nichols (, born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her portrayal of Nyota Uhura in ''Star Trek'' and its film sequels. Nichols' portrayal of Uhura was g ...

(1932-), American actor * Pam Parisian, chief information officer, AT&T * Sheryl Root, president and CEO, RootAnalysis * Marie Wieck, general manager, Middleware, IBM

2016

* Kimberly Bryant Founder and executive director, Black Girls Code * Roberta Banaszak Gleiter CEO, Global Institute For Technology & Engineering *

Harriet Green Harriet Green (born 12 December 1961) is a British businesswoman, who was chairman and CEO of IBM Asia Pacific, and previously led three IBM business divisions: the Internet of things, customer engagement and education businesses. She was CEO ...

OBE, general manager, IBM * Jennifer Yates, Ph.D., assistant vice president, AT&T * Ellie Yieh, corporate vice president,

Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and ...

2017

* Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Krunali Patel Vice President, Texas Instruments * Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Strategist, IBM * Selma Svendsen Senior Director,

* Elizabeth Xu, chief technology officer, BMC Software

2018

* Rhonda Childress, IBM Fellow VP – GTS Data Security and Privacy Officer, IBM * Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, Internet Pioneer * Roz Ho, Senior VP and GM, Consumer & Metadata, TiVo * Santosh K. Kurinec,

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional ...

, professor of electrical and microelectronic engineering * Yanbing Li, Ph.D., Sr VP and general manager, Storage and Availability Business Uni,

VMware VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware's desktop software ru ...

* Rashmi Rao, Global Head, Advanced Engineering, CoC User Experience, Harman

2019

* Heather Hinton, vice president and IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM. * Julia Liuson, corporate vice president, Developer Tools, Microsoft. * Dr. Sara Rushinek, professor of business technology and health informatics, University of Miami. * Dr. Natalia Trayanova, professor of biomedical engineering and medicine, Johns Hopkins University * Blanca Treviño, president and CEO, Softtek

2021

Arundhati Bhattacharya Arundhati Bhattacharya is a retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India. She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India. In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by ...

, chairperson and chief executive officer for the State Bank of India * Lisa P. Jackson, EPA Administrator * Olu Maduka, Founding Board Member and current Chairman of the Board of Women in Energy, Oil, and Gas Nigeria (WEOG) * Karen Quintos, senior vice president and chief marketing officer – Dell Inc. * Angie Ruan, vice president of engineering at Chime * Lisa T. Su, Ph.D., president and CEO, Advanced Micro Devices * Kara Swisher, editor-at-large of New York Medi * Tae Yoo, senior vice president, corporate affairs and corporate social responsibility, Cisco

References

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