Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
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The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is a nonprofit organization founded by computer scientist Anita Borg
. The institute’s primary aim is to recruit, retain, and advance women in technology. The institute’s most prominent program is the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
, the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. Based in Palo Alto, California, the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology is currently headed by Telle Whitney
, who co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing with Anita Borg.
is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. Named in honor of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the conference is presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery
. The conference features technical sessions and career sessions, including keynote speakers, a poster session, career fair, and awards ceremony. The 2011 conference will be held in Portland, Oregon.
The Technical Executive Forum, held annually at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, brings together high-level technology executives to discuss challenges and solutions for recruiting, retaining, and advancing technical women. A two-day workshop for K-12 computer science teachers is also held at the conference, hosted by the Computer Science Teachers Association and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Council on Women in Computing, and the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). Two-day regional conferences attract between 50 and 200 attendees and include keynote speakers, poster sessions, panel discussions, professional development workshops, birds of a feather sessions, and research presentations. There have been 17 regional conferences to date, with 12 upcoming conferences planned.
is an annual awards program that honors technical women. Three awards are presented each year, in categories of Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact, at the annual Women of Vision Awards Banquet. Past Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award winners include: Mary Lou Jepsen
, Kristina M. Johnson
, Mitchell Baker
, Helen Greiner
, Susan Landau
, Justine Cassell
, Deborah Estrin
, Leah Jamieson
, Duy-Loan Le
, Radia Perlman
, and Pamela Samuelson
.
in 2011. The award winner is recognized at the annual Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards Banquet.
, Google
, IBM
, Intel Corporation
, Intuit, Microsoft Research
, SAP
, and Symantec
.
. The program brings 38 technical women, aged 25–42, from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States for a five-week mentoring program at technology companies in Silicon Valley. The initiative is administered by the Institute of International Education
, in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
, HP, Microsoft
, CA Technologies, Cisco
, Facebook
, First Republic Bank
, IBM
, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin
, National Science Foundation
, National Security Agency
, NetApp, SAP
, Symantec
, Thomson Reuters
, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
, Amazon
, Broadcom
, Motorola Foundation
, Raytheon
, Salesforce, and Yahoo!
.
Anita Borg
Anita Borg was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois...
. The institute’s primary aim is to recruit, retain, and advance women in technology. The institute’s most prominent program is the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 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 Grace Hopper Celebration is presented by the Anita Borg Institute...
, the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. Based in Palo Alto, California, the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology is currently headed by Telle Whitney
Telle Whitney
Telle Whitney is currently CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. A computer scientist by training, she cofounded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing with Anita Borg in 1994 and joined the Anita Borg Institute in 2002.-Education and Early Career:Telle...
, who co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing with Anita Borg.
History
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology was founded in 1997 by Anita Borg as the Institute for Women in Technology. The institute was preceded by two of its current programs: Systers and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Systers, the first online community for women in computing, was founded in 1987 by Anita Borg. In 1994, Borg and Telle Whitney organized the first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Anita Borg served as CEO of the Institute for Women and Technology from 1997 to 2002. In 2002, Whitney became CEO and President, and in 2003, the institute was renamed the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology.Mission
As stated on its website, the mission of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is to:- increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and
- increase the positive impact of technology on the world’s women
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in ComputingGrace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 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 Grace Hopper Celebration is presented by the Anita Borg Institute...
is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. Named in honor of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the conference is presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
. The conference features technical sessions and career sessions, including keynote speakers, a poster session, career fair, and awards ceremony. The 2011 conference will be held in Portland, Oregon.
The Technical Executive Forum, held annually at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, brings together high-level technology executives to discuss challenges and solutions for recruiting, retaining, and advancing technical women. A two-day workshop for K-12 computer science teachers is also held at the conference, hosted by the Computer Science Teachers Association and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India is the largest conference for technical women in India. Established in 2010, the two-day conference is modeled after the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and includes multiple tracks with keynote speakers, panels, birds of a feather sessions, and a poster session.Grace Hopper Regional Consortium
The Grace Hopper Regional Consortium is an initiative of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
Council on Women in Computing, and the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). Two-day regional conferences attract between 50 and 200 attendees and include keynote speakers, poster sessions, panel discussions, professional development workshops, birds of a feather sessions, and research presentations. There have been 17 regional conferences to date, with 12 upcoming conferences planned.
Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards
The Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision AwardsAnita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards
The Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards honor exceptional technical women. Three awards are presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology each year, recognizing women in the categories of Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact.-Awards:...
is an annual awards program that honors technical women. Three awards are presented each year, in categories of Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact, at the annual Women of Vision Awards Banquet. Past Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award winners include: Mary Lou Jepsen
Mary Lou Jepsen
Mary Lou Jepsen is founder and CEO of Pixel Qi, a manufacturer of low-cost, low-power LCD screens for laptops. She was the first chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child .- Early life and education :...
, Kristina M. Johnson
Kristina M. Johnson
Kristina M. Johnson was the undersecretary for Energy at the United States Department of Energy until she stepped down Nov. 5, 2010. She has previously been the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University since September 1, 2007. Previously, she had been the...
, Mitchell Baker
Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker is the Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet...
, Helen Greiner
Helen Greiner
Helen Greiner is the co-founder of iRobot and currently CEO of CyPhyWorks.-Career:Helen Greiner holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in computer science, both from MIT...
, Susan Landau
Susan Landau
Susan Landau is an American mathematician and engineer, as of 2011, a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department, Harvard University....
, Justine Cassell
Justine Cassell
Justine Cassell is an American professor and researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling. Since August 2010 she has been the director of the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute .-Career:Justine Cassell was born in New York City...
, Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin is a professor of Computer Science at UCLA. She is the daughter of Gerald Estrin, also a UCLA Computer Science professor, and the sister of Judy Estrin. She is a pioneer in the field of embedded network sensing and is the director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA...
, Leah Jamieson
Leah Jamieson
Leah H. Jamieson is an American engineering educator serving at present as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University...
, Duy-Loan Le
Duy-Loan Le
Duy-Loan T. Le is an engineer and the first woman and Asian to get elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow.-Early life:Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1962, to a Vietnamese-Muslim family , she fled to the U.S...
, Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman
Radia Joy Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the Internet." She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol , which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation...
, and Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at...
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Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Award
The Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Award recognizes companies for their recruitment, retention, and advancement of technical women. The first Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Award was awarded to IBMIBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
in 2011. The award winner is recognized at the annual Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards Banquet.
Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Workshop
The Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Workshop provides coverage of best practices for recruiting, retaining, and advancing technical women. Representatives from different companies learn from each other and share practices. Companies participating in the 2011 workshop included CA Technologies, CiscoCisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
, Intuit, Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
, SAP
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...
, and Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
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Awards
The Anita Borg Institute presents a number of awards annually at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing to recognize technical women and those who support them. These include: Anita Borg Social Impact Award, Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award, Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award, A. Richard Newton Educator Award, Anita Borg Change Agent Awards, and TechWomen Change Agent Awards.TechWomen
TechWomen is a professional mentorship and exchange program funded by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural AffairsBureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world...
. The program brings 38 technical women, aged 25–42, from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States for a five-week mentoring program at technology companies in Silicon Valley. The initiative is administered by the Institute of International Education
Institute of International Education
Institute of International Education - is a non-profit organization promoting international exchange of education and training. It was established in 1919 and is based in the USA....
, in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Online Communities
The Anita Borg Institute runs several email lists and online groups that connect technical women. Systers is the largest email community of technical women in computing in the world and predates the Anita Borg Institute, having been founded in 1987 by Anita Borg. Systers provides a private space for women in computing to ask personal and technical questions.Research
The Anita Borg Institute publishes research about the state of women in technology. Past reports have focused on mid-level technical women, minorities in computing, senior technical women, and more.Corporate Partners
The Anita Borg Institute is supported by corporate partners, from both within and outside of the technology sector. Current partners include: GoogleGoogle
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, HP, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, CA Technologies, Cisco
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
, First Republic Bank
First Republic Bank
First Republic Bank is a bank and wealth management company offering personal banking, business banking, trust and wealth management services. The bank specializes in delivering personalized relationship-based service through preferred banking or trust offices on the US East and West Coasts,...
, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....
, National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
, National Security Agency
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
, NetApp, SAP
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...
, Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
, Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...
, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is a law firm in the United States that specializes in business, securities, and intellectual property law. The firm's Chairman, Larry Sonsini, is well known as an attorney and advisor to technology companies....
, Amazon
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
, Broadcom
Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los...
, Motorola Foundation
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
, Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon Company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007...
, Salesforce, and Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
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