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NCWIT is excited to announce Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover as the 2023 Pioneer Award recipient for her role in revolutionizing the modern telephone system. Dr. Hoover was born in Irvington, New […]

Frances “Poppy” Northcutt’s career includes groundbreaking achievements as an engineer, as a women’s rights advocate, and as an attorney. Born in Many, Louisiana, and raised in Luling and Dayton, Texas,

Dr. Gladys West started her career at Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia, now called the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in 1956, and she worked there for 42 years as

NCWIT awards celebrate outstanding contributions and encourage persistence. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is virtually celebrating individuals whose technological innovations have made an impact or whose

This first-ever, online thought leadership series of events focused on creating inclusion and diversity in computing is free and open to the public. Zoom registrations for each event are available

Ruzena Bajcsy has spent much of her career at the intersection of human and machine ways of interpreting the world, with research interests that include Artificial Intelligence; Biosystems and Computational

NCWIT Awards celebrate outstanding contributions and encourage persistence. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is holding its annual “NCWIT Summit on Women and IT: Where Conversations Lead

Lynn Conway began her computing career at IBM research after completing her graduate studies at Columbia, joining the IBM Advanced Computing Systems project just as it was forming in 1965.

“Our community of change leaders is fueled by their adoption of effective, research-based strategies that facilitate reform in computing classes and technical organizations,” said NCWIT CEO and Co-founder Lucy Sanders.

After her graduation in 1969, Lorinda Cherry worked for a few years as a Fortran programmer, but she found it “very boring” to constantly write programs based on someone else’s