Global Tech Women asked the Community who are the Fabulous 50 women in tech over 50 years-old, globally. Here are the winners. There are nearly 100 well-qualified, amazing women. We think you will agree, they all deserve to be part of this list! Thanks to all who participated!
Fran Allen
IBM, Retired
New York Area, USA
In 2007 Allen was recognized for her work in high performance computing when she received the A.M. Turing Award for 2006. She became the first woman recipient in the forty year history of the award which is considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for computing and is given by the Association for Computing Machinery. She was awarded an honorary doctor in science degree at the winter commencement at SUNY University at Albany. In interviews following the award she hoped it would give more "opportunities for women in science, computing and engineering". In 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from McGill university for "pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution".
IBM, Retired
New York Area, USA
In 2007 Allen was recognized for her work in high performance computing when she received the A.M. Turing Award for 2006. She became the first woman recipient in the forty year history of the award which is considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for computing and is given by the Association for Computing Machinery. She was awarded an honorary doctor in science degree at the winter commencement at SUNY University at Albany. In interviews following the award she hoped it would give more "opportunities for women in science, computing and engineering". In 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from McGill university for "pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution".
Kathleen M Carley
Professor in the School of Computer Science in the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University
Greater Pittsburgh Area, USA
Carley's research combines cognitive science, sociology and computer science to address complex social and organizational problems. Her most notable research contribution was the establishment of Dynamic network analysis (DNA). She is the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university-wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network science, computer science, and organizational studies and has an associated NSF funded training program for Ph.D. students. Her research on dynamic network analysis has resulted in tools for analyzing large scale dynamic networks and various multi-agent simulation systems. Her CASOS group has developed tools for text-mining semantic networks (AutoMap), simulating epidemiological models (BioWar), and simulating covert networks (DyNet).
Professor in the School of Computer Science in the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University
Greater Pittsburgh Area, USA
Carley's research combines cognitive science, sociology and computer science to address complex social and organizational problems. Her most notable research contribution was the establishment of Dynamic network analysis (DNA). She is the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university-wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network science, computer science, and organizational studies and has an associated NSF funded training program for Ph.D. students. Her research on dynamic network analysis has resulted in tools for analyzing large scale dynamic networks and various multi-agent simulation systems. Her CASOS group has developed tools for text-mining semantic networks (AutoMap), simulating epidemiological models (BioWar), and simulating covert networks (DyNet).
Jennifer Chayes
Distinguished Scientist & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research New York City
Greater Boston Area, USA
Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions, and on models and properties of networks. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is considered one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs. Applications include the Internet, the Web, biological networks, and social networks. Chayes serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the Turing Award Selection Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, the Advisory Boards of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus, and Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology.
Distinguished Scientist & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research New York City
Greater Boston Area, USA
Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions, and on models and properties of networks. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is considered one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs. Applications include the Internet, the Web, biological networks, and social networks. Chayes serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the Turing Award Selection Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, the Advisory Boards of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus, and Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology.
Asuman Dogac
Director, Professor at Middle East Technical University
Turkey
Pioneer database professor, Director at Industry Liason to METU in Turkey, and integral to helping young entrepreneurs in the region.
Director, Professor at Middle East Technical University
Turkey
Pioneer database professor, Director at Industry Liason to METU in Turkey, and integral to helping young entrepreneurs in the region.
Mary Fernandez
CEO, MentorNet and Board Director, Computing Research Association (CRA)
New York City Area, USA
Mary spent seventeen years at AT&T Labs Research, most recently as Assistant Vice President of Information and Software Systems Research, where she supported more than fifty Ph.D.-level scientists whose research advances the systems that support AT&T's communications infrastructure and services. Mary is an active volunteer and leader in local and national organizations whose missions are to advance computing research and to increase the representation of women and under-represented minorities in STEM professions. She is on the board of Computing Research Association and a STEM role model in HISPA Hispanics Inspiring Students'
CEO, MentorNet and Board Director, Computing Research Association (CRA)
New York City Area, USA
Mary spent seventeen years at AT&T Labs Research, most recently as Assistant Vice President of Information and Software Systems Research, where she supported more than fifty Ph.D.-level scientists whose research advances the systems that support AT&T's communications infrastructure and services. Mary is an active volunteer and leader in local and national organizations whose missions are to advance computing research and to increase the representation of women and under-represented minorities in STEM professions. She is on the board of Computing Research Association and a STEM role model in HISPA Hispanics Inspiring Students'
MaryAnn Hondo
Senior Product Manager, Developer Relations at Akamai Technologies
Greater Boston Area, MA USA
A WS Specification Lead and security expert, MaryAnn has numerous publications to her credit including Web Services Policy 1.5 Framework, mobile security white papers and videos.
Senior Product Manager, Developer Relations at Akamai Technologies
Greater Boston Area, MA USA
A WS Specification Lead and security expert, MaryAnn has numerous publications to her credit including Web Services Policy 1.5 Framework, mobile security white papers and videos.
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Barbara Liskov
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ford Professor of Engineering Greater Boston Area, MA USA Barbara Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2002, she was recognized as one of the top women faculty members at MIT, and among the top 50 faculty members in the sciences in the U.S. In 2004, Barbara Liskov won the John von Neumann Medal for "fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems". Liskov received the 2008 Turing Award from the ACM, in March 2009 for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Specifically, Liskov developed two programming languages, CLU in the 1970s and Argus in the 1980s. The ACM cited her contributions to the practical and theoretical foundations of "programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing." Barbara Liskov is the author of three books and over a hundred technical papers. |
Eve Maler
VP Innovation & Emerging Technology at ForgeRock
Seattle, WA USA
According to her nominator, Eve is an identity and security expert. She is also the host of XMLGrrl.com and a great blog called Pushing String.
VP Innovation & Emerging Technology at ForgeRock
Seattle, WA USA
According to her nominator, Eve is an identity and security expert. She is also the host of XMLGrrl.com and a great blog called Pushing String.
Zehra Meral Ozsoyoglu
Andrew R. Jennings Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio USA
Database pioneer and ACM Fellow
Andrew R. Jennings Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio USA
Database pioneer and ACM Fellow
Diane Pozefsky
Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
Focus on the Communication Systems Architecture Department working in the specification and application of the Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a large and complex feature-rich network architecture developed in the 1970s by IBM. Similar in some respects to the OSI reference model, but with a number of differences. SNA is essentially composed of seven layers. She worked for IBM for 25 years and was named an IBM Fellow in 1994 in recognition of her work on APPN and AnyNet architectures and development. She was tasked with the network and application design for the 1998 and 2000 Olympics. She has worked in development, design, and architecture and two areas that she has become particularly interested in later in here career are improving quality and blending theory and practice.
Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
Focus on the Communication Systems Architecture Department working in the specification and application of the Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a large and complex feature-rich network architecture developed in the 1970s by IBM. Similar in some respects to the OSI reference model, but with a number of differences. SNA is essentially composed of seven layers. She worked for IBM for 25 years and was named an IBM Fellow in 1994 in recognition of her work on APPN and AnyNet architectures and development. She was tasked with the network and application design for the 1998 and 2000 Olympics. She has worked in development, design, and architecture and two areas that she has become particularly interested in later in here career are improving quality and blending theory and practice.
Barbara Simons
Co-Author of Broken Ballots, Past President of the Association of Computing Machinery, founder and former Chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee
San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA
Research Division of IBM from 1981-1998. In 1992, Science featured her in a special edition on women in science. In 2005 Simons became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering of U.C. Berkeley.
She served on the President’s Export Council’s Subcommittee on Encryption and on the Information Technology-Sector of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion. She is on the Board of Directors of VerifiedVoting.org. She has testified before both the U.S. and state legislatures and at government sponsored hearings. Simons co-founded the Reentry Program for Women and Minorities in the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley. She is also on the Boards of the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) and the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT), groups that work at increasing participation in computer science of women and underrepresented minorities.
Co-Author of Broken Ballots, Past President of the Association of Computing Machinery, founder and former Chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee
San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA
Research Division of IBM from 1981-1998. In 1992, Science featured her in a special edition on women in science. In 2005 Simons became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering of U.C. Berkeley.
She served on the President’s Export Council’s Subcommittee on Encryption and on the Information Technology-Sector of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion. She is on the Board of Directors of VerifiedVoting.org. She has testified before both the U.S. and state legislatures and at government sponsored hearings. Simons co-founded the Reentry Program for Women and Minorities in the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley. She is also on the Boards of the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) and the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT), groups that work at increasing participation in computer science of women and underrepresented minorities.
Umit Yalcinalp
Endowed Professor in Computer Science at Mills College, Founder at myappellation.com, Author
San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA
Currently a visiting professor at Mills College in the Math and CS Department, the first recipient of the Annette Chan-Norris and Evan Norris Endowed Visiting Professorship in Science & Technology for bridging industry with the college. Software architect skilled in end2end architecture of complex systems, from conceptualization, development, integration, consulting, deployment to support, as well as evangelism, outbound reach, partner management and mentorship. Named as one of the "15 women to follow on twitter" by Huffington Post in 2013, "5 Women Tech Leaders that you should follow on Twitter" by Jo Miller at Anita Borg Institute of Women and Technology in 2010. Frequently speaks at conferences ranging from SOA, QCon, JavaOne, Cloud Conferences, Grace Hopper on Cloud Computing, PaaS, architectures, identity management, women in technology. Co-founder of the Turkish Women in Computing group; mentor to many engineers & students. Author of a SOA book; editor of and contributor to well known WS-*, Java, SOA specifications; author of several patent applications as well as leader of teams in this space.
Endowed Professor in Computer Science at Mills College, Founder at myappellation.com, Author
San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA
Currently a visiting professor at Mills College in the Math and CS Department, the first recipient of the Annette Chan-Norris and Evan Norris Endowed Visiting Professorship in Science & Technology for bridging industry with the college. Software architect skilled in end2end architecture of complex systems, from conceptualization, development, integration, consulting, deployment to support, as well as evangelism, outbound reach, partner management and mentorship. Named as one of the "15 women to follow on twitter" by Huffington Post in 2013, "5 Women Tech Leaders that you should follow on Twitter" by Jo Miller at Anita Borg Institute of Women and Technology in 2010. Frequently speaks at conferences ranging from SOA, QCon, JavaOne, Cloud Conferences, Grace Hopper on Cloud Computing, PaaS, architectures, identity management, women in technology. Co-founder of the Turkish Women in Computing group; mentor to many engineers & students. Author of a SOA book; editor of and contributor to well known WS-*, Java, SOA specifications; author of several patent applications as well as leader of teams in this space.