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Girls and Women in computing that are doing/or did interesting things

Girls in CS
Ashley Qualls age 17 built a million dollar web site
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/52250/teen-millionaire

Juliette Brindak 19 Built a tween web site
http://missoandfriends.com

Martina Butler, 17, Creator and host of a podcast website and Channel Z.E.N
http://emogirltalkwp.podshow.com/


Women in CS at Companies

Why women have the advantage in technology and should consider technical fields http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/why-women-have-an-advantage-in-technology/?ref=technology

Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, Google
http://www.cs.duke.edu/sigcse08/keynotes.html

Fran Allen, Turning Award Winner and IBM Fellow
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20020806_fran_allen.html
http://gracehopper.org/2008/conference/keynote-speakers/

Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CTO One Laptop Per Child
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen
http://gracehopper.org/2008/conference/keynote-speakers/

Karen Sparck Jones: Great accomplishments in Natural Language Processing
and Information Retrieval:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/misc/obituaries/sparck-jones/

Beatrice Helen Worsley: Possibly the first woman to earn a doctorate in
Computer Science, and Canada's first female Computer Scientist. She worked
on the EDSAC, writing one of its first programming languages.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/scampbell/campbell03.pdf

Rosalind Picard: Is credited with starting the entire field of Affective Computing:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/

Cynthia Breazeal: One of the pioneers of social robotics, and built the world's first social robot (Kismet):
http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/

Women in CS at Universities

The Spelbots: An all female African American Team from Spellman College in Atlanta that does robot competitions
http://vimeo.com/11723505

Dame Wendy Hall the President of the ACM
http://www.acm.org/membership/hallinterview

Manuela Veloso, Intelligent robots
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/

Andrea Thomaz - robots that can interact and learn from people
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/social-machines/

Teaching deaf kids sign language
Helene Brashear http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~brashear/pubs/ASSETS2006.pdf
Valerie Henderson-Summet http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vlh/

Dr Robin Murphy - search and rescue robots
http://www.time.com/time/2004/innovators/200406/murphy.html

Ayanna Howard - robots that can navigate on Mars
http://www.time.com/time/2004/innovators/200406/story.html

Leah Buechley - wearable LED displays (tank top, bracelet)
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/projects/LED_clothing/tank.html
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/projects/index.html

Regina Barzilay - natural language processing
http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/

Martha Gray - MRI tools to detect and prevent cartilage degeneration
http://hst.mit.edu/public/people/faculty/facultyBiosketch.jsp?key=Gray

Lorrie Cranor - privacy, security, voting
http://lorrie.cranor.org/

Dannie Durand - computational molecular biology and computational genomics
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~durand/

Roberta Klatzky - navigation aids for the blind
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/faculty/klatzky/

Jennifer Mankoff - Leveraging social networking to reduce individuals' ecological footprints,
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jmankoff/

Shafi Goldwasser - cryptography, complexity theory, and number theory.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/shafi/

Deborah Estrin - embedded networked sensing, wireless sensing
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/people/estrin/

Early Women in CS

Barbara Liskov - first woman to earn a PhD in CS in the U.S. and a Turning Award Winner
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/march18/turing-award-barbara-liskof-031809.html


Irene Greif - first female PhD in CS from MIT
http://alum.mit.edu/news/AlumniProfiles/Archive/greif.jsp

Evelyn Boyd Granville - African American women with a PhD in math who taught math and computer science and worked on the Apollo program
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/granville_evelynb.html

Dead Now:

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper - early programmer and developer of the first compiler
http://gracehopper.org/2008/about/about-grace-hopper/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Anita Borg - Worked at many computer companies including Xerox PARC and created the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference
http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/halloffame/1998/aborg.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg

Ada Lovelace - Wrote the first computer program even before there were computers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

The Harvard Computers - Women hired to be "computers" to do astronomical calculations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers

Top Secret Rosies - Women hired to be "computers" during World War II
http://topsecretrosies.wordpress.com/






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