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The Anita Borg Institute Honors Women in Technology
PALO ALTO, CA, Oct 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
The Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a non-profit organization
encouraging the advancement of women in the high tech industry, last
night, honored women leading the technology field in an awards
ceremony at its 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing. The awards honor distinguished technical leaders as well
as those who work towards recruitment, retention, and advancement of
technical women. This year's awards were sponsored by Microsoft,
Salesforce.com, Google, and additional private sponsors.
"The Anita Borg Institute designed these awards to honor a handful of
the thousands of women throughout the world who are leading
technology innovation," said Telle Whitney, president and CEO of the
Anita Borg Institute. "We are excited to honor these distinguished
women in front of our largest crowd to date at the Grace Hopper
Celebration. These important awards and acknowledgements clearly
demonstrate the breadth and depth of commitment from leading industry
and academic institutions who, along with ABI, are paving the way for
the next generation of women in computer science and technology."
The 2012 Award Winners include:
-- The Anita Borg Social Impact Award - Sponsored By Microsoft
-- Cathi Rodgveller, Founder of IGNITE (Inspiring Girls Now In
Technology Evolution)
-- The Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award - Sponsored by
salesforce.com
-- Irene Greif, IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist for Social Business at
IBM
-- A. Richard Newton Educator Award - Sponsored by Amrita Newton, Neris
Newton, Petra Michel, and Bill Unger
-- Barbara Ericson, Director of Computing Outreach for the College of
Computing at Georgia Tech
-- Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award - Sponsored by Microsoft
-- Susan Daniel, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering at Cornell University
-- Change Agent Awards - Sponsored by Google
-- Maria Dubovitskaya, researcher at IBM Zurich working on a PhD in
Cryptography
-- Ramalatha Marimuthu, Head of the Department of Information
Technology at Kumaraguru College of Technology
-- Evelyn Namara, Program Coordinator at Solar Sister
Apart from the Anita Borg awards ceremony, the annual four-day event
also featured an Open Source Day and Code-a-thon for Humanity, a
celebration of the 25th anniversary of Systers, the largest global
online community for technical women, and a multi-day career fair
consisting of over 110 companies promoting open computer science and
engineering positions at all levels. Speakers and panels addressed
key technical areas such as social collaboration in computing, the
emerging trend of big data, and computer security. 320 scholarships
were awarded to college undergraduates, graduate and post-doctoral
students to attend this year's event underwritten by ABI, corporate
sponsors, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Co-founded by Dr. Anita Borg and Dr. Telle Whitney in 1994 and
inspired by the legacy of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the Grace
Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing is a conference
designed to bring the research and career interests of women in
computing to the forefront. This year, the GHC attracted over 3,600
participants from 42 countries, making it the largest conference for
women in technology. Presenters and attendees represent all aspects
of the industrial, academic and government communities.
About The Anita Borg Institute (ABI)
The Anita Borg Institute
provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and
government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech
fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. Their
programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing
tools to help them develop their careers. The Anita Borg Institute is
a not-for-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization. Partners include:
Google, HP, Microsoft, Amazon, CA Technologies, Cisco, Dell,
Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Juniper Networks,
Lockheed Martin, Marvell, National Science Foundation, National
Security Agency, NetApp, Salesforce.com, SAP, Symantec, Thomson
Reuters, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Broadcom, EMC2, Neustar,
Raytheon, VentureLoop and Yahoo! For more information, visit
www.anitaborg.org.
Follow the Grace Hopper Celebration on Twitter at @ghc or #GHC12.
Follow the Anita Borg Institute on Twitter at @anitaborg_org
For More Information, contact:
Lisa Kelaita
Email Contact
415-518-8986
SOURCE: Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
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