Anita Borg
Anita Borg
Anita Borgwas an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technologyand the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
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If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.
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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
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If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
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I want all of these folks connected. We're all doing too much reinventing of the wheel, ... The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. We hope that these two projects will come together and create a structure of continued involvement.