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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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NCWIT awards celebrate outstanding contributions and encourage persistence. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is virtually celebrating individuals whose technological innovations have …
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 …
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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 …
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NCWIT Awards celebrate outstanding contributions and encourage persistence. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is holding its annual “NCWIT Summit on Women …
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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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