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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We'll try to be a catalyst for development projects that include women at all levels - in the design and development process.
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Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
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The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.
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There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
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Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
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None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.
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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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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.
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Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.
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Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
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None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.