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Famous Women in Computer Science

This is based off of our "Famous Women in Computer Science" list, launched in conjunction with International Women's Day 2012. We hope you enjoy these inspirational role models!
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Melba Roy, NASA Mathmetician, Ms. Roy headed a group of NASA mathmeticians known as “computers” who tracked the Echo satellites in 1964
Lixia Zhang, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA, and Leader of the UCLA Computer Science Department’s Internet Research Lab (IRL), 2009 IEEE Internet Award, Fellow ACM 2006, Fellow IEEE 2006 Computer Science, Women In Computer Science, Research Lab, Asian American, Travel Stuff, Famous Women, International Womens Day, Ladies Day, Role Models
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Lixia Zhang, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA, and Leader of the UCLA Computer Science Department’s Internet Research Lab (IRL), 2009 IEEE Internet Award, Fellow ACM 2006, Fellow IEEE 2006
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Kathy Yelick, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: University of California at Berkeley, and Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences and the Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Member National Academies committee on Sustaining Growth in Computing Performance
Jane Xu, Distinguished Engineer of IBM Watson Research, CTO of IBM China Systems and Technology Labs, WITI Hall of Fame 2008 Women In Technology, Heroic Women, Technology Lab, Ibm Watson, Female Inspiration
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Jane Xu, Distinguished Engineer of IBM Watson Research, CTO of IBM China Systems and Technology Labs, WITI Hall of Fame 2008
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Computer Scientist
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Sophie Wilson - Wikipedia
Sophie Wilson, designed the Acorn Microcomputer. Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2012)
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Mary Allen Wilkes computer programmer; First person to use a computer in a private home and the first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer (LINC)
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Jennifer Widom, Chair Computer Science Department Stanford University where she has worked on nontraditional data management, ACM Fellow 2005, Fletcher Jones Professor in Computer Science, Member National Academy of Engineering, Member American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2007, Guggenheim Fellow 2000
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Computer Science And Engineering
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Elaine Weyuker, AT Fellow at Bell Labs for research in software metrics and testing, Member National Academy of Engineering, Fellow IEEE 2003, ACM Fellow 1997, 2008 Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award, ACM 2010 Presidential Award for “her tireless efforts in the development and growth of the ACM Women’s Council”
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Kalpana Chawla
Female Engineer
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Time Tracking
Practice Outfits
Dana Ulery, computer scientist; first female engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, developing real-time tracking systems using a North American Aviation Recomp II, 40-bit word size computer
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Emotion Psychology
Interdisciplinary Studies
Intelligent Robot
Robotics Projects
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Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
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Robotics
Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus, Professor, EECS department: MIT, Co-directs the CSAIL Center for Robotics, Fellow IEEE 2010, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Fellow (2009), MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program (2002), Sloan Foundation: Research Fellowship (1998), NSF: Career Award (1996)
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Mathematics Design
Engineering Mathematics
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Computer Science Engineering
Science Engineering
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University Of Michigan
Science Technology
Martha Pollack, Vice Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, and Professor of Information, and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering: University of Michigan, Served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, as President of AAAI ACM Fellow 2011, Fellow AAAS 2012, Elected Fellow American Association for Artificial Intelligence 1996, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award 1992
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Uc Santa Barbara
Environmental Engineering
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Santa Barbara
People | Computational Science and Engineering
Linda Petzold, Professor Mechanical & Environmental Engineering UC Santa Barbara, Leader UCSB Computational Science and Engineering Research Group, ACM Fellow 2011, UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer 2011, Fellow ASME 2008, Fellow AAAS 2005, Member National Academy of Engineering 2004
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Nancy Lynch's Home Page
Prof. Nancy Lynch, Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology: NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ACM Fellow 1997, Dijkstra Prize 2007, Member National Academy of Engineering
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt - Wikipedia
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, in 1893, joins the Harvard computers, a group of women engaged in the production of astronomical data at Harvard; she is instrumental in discovery of the cepheid variable stars, which were evidence for the expansion of the universe.
Duy-Loan Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments (1st woman and 1st Asian-American TI Senior Fellow), WITI Hall of Fame 2001, Vietnamese American National Gala Golden Torch Award 2006, ABI Women of Vision Award for Leadership 2007, helped establish the Sunflower Mission, a non-profit educational organization for poor children of Vietnam National Honor Society, Honor Society, The Sunflower, Poor Children
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Duy-Loan Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments (1st woman and 1st Asian-American TI Senior Fellow), WITI Hall of Fame 2001, Vietnamese American National Gala Golden Torch Award 2006, ABI Women of Vision Award for Leadership 2007, helped establish the Sunflower Mission, a non-profit educational organization for poor children of Vietnam