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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

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/

Women in CS at Universities
Dame Wendy Hall the President of the ACM
http://www.acm.org/membership/hallinterview

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

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
Rescue robots http://www.cse.usf.edu/~murphy/
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/

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






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