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| ANITA BORG
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Anita Borg
Anita was a highly respected leader who served on the Presidential Commission on the Advancement of
Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology. A visionary who started the first e-mail
networks for women in technology, Systers, in 1987, Ms. Borg also co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration
of Women in Computing inspired by the legacy of Navy Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.
She also founded the Institute for Women and Technology, in 1987. Dr. Anita Borg was a computer scientist
in the Office of the Chief Technologist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
She was supported by Xerox in her effort to create the Institute for Women and Technology,
an experimental R&D organization focusing on increasing the impact of women on technology
and the positive impact of technology on the world's women. At the institute, technologists,
social scientists and community members will work together to create technologies based on
women's needs, situations, and genius. They also work to create a worldwide network of collaborations.
Dr. Borg received her doctorate from New York University in 1981 for work on operating systems synchronization
efficiency. She spent four years building a fault tolerant Unix-based operating system first
for Auragen Systems Corp of New Jersey and then with Nixdorf Computer in Germany.
In 1986, she joined Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory.
There she developed and patented a method for generating complete address traces
used for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems. Her experience running
the ever expanding "Systers" mailing list, a forum for women in the computing field,
lead her to work in email communication and instigated her move to the Network Systems Laboratory.
There, she developed MECCA; an email and World Wide Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities.
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Grace Hopper
A computer engineer and Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy,
Grace Hopper developed the first computer compiler in 1952 and the computer program language COBOL.
Upon discovering that a moth had jammed the works of an early computer, Hopper
popularized the term "bug." In 1983, by special presidential appointment,
Hopper was promoted to the rank of Commodore. Two years later, she became one of the first
women to be elevated to the rank of Rear Admiral. In 1986, after forty-three years of service,
RADM Grace Hopper ceremoniously retired on the deck of the USS Constitution. At 80 years,
she was the oldest active duty officer at that time. She spent the remainder of her life as a
senior consultant to Digital Equipment Corporation. Hopper received numerous honors over
the course of her lifetime. In 1969, the Data Processing Management Association awarded
her the first Computer Science Man-of-the-Year Award. She became the first person from the
United States and the first woman to be made a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer
Society in 1973. She also received multiple honorary doctorates from universities across the nation.
The Navy christened a ship in her honor. In September 1991, she was awarded the National
Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in engineering and technology.
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Bonnie Dunbar
She graduated from Sunnyside High School, Sunnyside, Washington, in 1967;
received bachelor of science and master of science degrees in ceramic
engineering from the University of Washington in 1971 and 1975, respectively;
and a doctorate in Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering from the University of Houston, 1983.
Dunbar was an engineer for Boeing and the Rockwell International Space Division after completed her degree.
Dunbar became an astronaut in 1981. In 1985, Dunbar made her first spaceflight aboard Spacelab.
By the early 90s she had spent over 761 hours in space on 3 spaceflights
She is considered one of the most experienced female astronauts in the world.
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Katherine Stinson
She was the first female graduate of NC State University's College of Engineering.
Initially denied admission as a freshman, Stinson went on to become one of NC State's
most distinguished and active alumni. Graduating vice president of her class,
she was soon hired by the Civil Aeronautics Administration as its first female engineer.
Later, she served as technical assistant chief in its Engineering and Manufacturing
Division until her retirement in 1973.
She went on to found the Society of Women Engineers.
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Clues
CLUE #3: The first woman to design, patent and test an airplane.
CLUE #4: Canada's first female electrical engineer.
CLUE #5: "Queen of Hurricanes" was her unofficial title.
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