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October 7, 2014 · 7:45 am

TechWomen Opening Day 2014!

Yesterday was the TechWomen 2014 opening event for participants from 16 countries in Africa and the Middle East (plus the USA!) – generously hosted by Juniper Networks again in Sunnyvale, California. During the next five weeks, I will be the Professional Mentor for Seham Jaafreh from Jordan – working together at Everwise In San Francisco. Lucy Keoni will also be working with Seham as her Cultural Mentor.

Assistant US Secretary of State Evan Ryan made the welcome announcement that the countries included in TechWomen 2015 will be extended to South Central Asia!

TechWomen Potluck

This afternoon, long-time TechWomen mentor and supporter Shannon McElyea generously hosted a potluck garden party for mentors and STEM Emerging Leaders from the Middle East and Africa. The TechWomen ELs have been in America just a few days – going on tours and discussing their plans in workshops. This was one of their first purely social events – and for many, their first-ever potluck. The American custom of building a meal around whatever food each person wants to contribute took some explaining but we all had a good time.

During this next month, I will be the Professional Mentor for Seham Jaafreh from Jordan – working together at Everwise. Everwise has already posted a blog post welcoming the TechWomen – as has the US State Department. Lucy Keoni will be working with Seham and me as Seham’s Cultural Mentor. The three of us were delighted to meet today and are enjoying planning many activities and visits in the San Francisco Bay Area.

John and I drove four lovely and lively Emerging Leaders from Zimbabwe back to their hotel after the party.

Poster Done: “Notable Women in Computing”

Professor Susan Rodger, my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I created the “Notable Women in Computing” Poster and Playing Cards for delivery at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) next week. Jessica just finished designing the poster above – showing all 54 of the playing cards.

The poster text says:

Keep our history: Women have been leaders in computing from the start but not enough of our contributions are remembered. Keep our history by writing a Wikipedia page for a notable woman in computing (draw from our list of 300+). Get tips on writing a great page, get a copy of this deck, and learn more about this project at Bit.ly/NotableW.

This project and card set is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing”project. We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none! The detailed card listing is in my 1 October 2014 blog entry.

Duke University and Everwise are sponsors. Playing Cards will be for sale $6/deck (our cost) at the GHC14 Duke University table – one deck per person!

The Notable Women in Computer Science project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing the card deck under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We have done a number of things to ensure this deck only helps, and does not hurt, women in computing. Our efforts included: using public domain images, seeking individual permission for images, seeking to represent the reality of diversity of women in computing, and seeking input on the project from women leaders in technology.

If you have a concern (don’t like the public domain photo we found of you, don’t think the photo you took can be licensed in the way we did, decided you did not want to be included, want to provide a better photo or more correct text) we want to know and we will do our best to help you. Please contact Katy Dickinson (katy dot dickinson at gmail dot com) with questions.

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October 3, 2014 · 10:38 pm

Cards Done! “Notable Women in Computing”

The initial printing of the “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards is done! You can share in the exciting first view by Professor Susan Rodger at Duke University by scrolling through the photos below. The cards look great!

Professor Susan Rodger, my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I created the “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards for delivery at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) next week. This work is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing” project. We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none! The detailed card listing is in my 1 October 2014 blog entry.

Duke University and Everwise are sponsors. Cards will be for sale $6/deck (our cost) at the GHC14 Duke University table – one deck per person!

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October 1, 2014 · 11:15 pm

Listing: “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards – GHC14

As of January 2015, these cards are available for sale on Notable Technical Women. See the 3 January 2019 listing for the updated 4th edition.

This is my second blog post featuring cards from the “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards set. Professor Susan Rodger (Duke University), my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I sent them off to be manufactured for delivery at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) next week. This work is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing” project. We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none!

Duke University and Everwise are sponsors. The full card listing follows. Cards will be for sale $6/deck (our cost) at the GHC14 Duke University table (8 October to 10 October 2014) – one deck per person!

23 October 2014 note: Please watch the Kickstarter video about why we picked these 54 women from among all of the remarkable technical women.

All 54 cards:

Suit	Honoree Name	Position, Honors, Awards	Wikipedia Link (if any)
*Joker*	Maria Klawe	Harvey Mudd College President, ACM Fellow, Canadian Information Processing Society founding Fellow	Linked Here
Joker	Mitchell Baker	Exec. Chair Mozilla, ABI Women of Vision, Internet Hall of Fame	Linked Here
Hearts	Queen– Frances Allen	IBM Fellow Emerita, Turing Award, Computer History Museum Fellow, IEEE Fellow	Linked Here
❤	King– Barbara Liskov	MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM Fellow, SWE Achievement Award	Linked Here
❤	Jack– Shafrira Goldwasser	MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM-W Athena Lecturer	Linked Here
❤	Ace– Hessa Sultan Al Jaber	Qatar ICT Minister, Chair CS Department – Qatar Univ.	Linked Here
❤	10- Mary Jane Irwin	Pennsylvania State Univ. Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, NAE Member, ACM-W Athena Lecturer	Linked Here
❤	9- Irene Greif	IBM User Experience Group, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Formed Lotus Research 1992	Linked Here
❤	8- Duy-Loan Le	Senior Fellow-Texas Instruments, WITI Hall of Fame, ABI Women of Vision	Linked Here
❤	7- Grete Hermann	Univ. of Göttingen mathematician, 1926 foundational paper for computerized algebra	Linked Here
❤	6- Manuela Veloso	Carnegie Mellon Univ. Professor, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow	Linked Here
❤	5- Lila Ibrahim	Chief Business Officer Coursera, ABI Women of Vision, Purdue University-Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer	*none yet*
❤	4- Padmasree Warrior	Cisco CTO, WITI Hall of Fame, Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi	Linked Here
❤	3- Genevieve Bell	Intel Director of Interaction and Experience Research, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
❤	2- Marilyn Wescoff	ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
*Diamonds*	Queen– Anita Borg	Founder Anita Borg Institute, WITI Hall of Fame, Fellow ACM, EFF Pioneer	Linked Here
♦	King– Deborah Estrin	Professor Cornell NYC Tech, ACM, AAAS and IEEE Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, ACM-W Athena Lecturer	Linked Here
♦	Jack– Yuqing Gao	IBM Senior Manager, ABI Women of Vision, IEEE Fellow	*none yet*
♦	Ace– Susan Graham	Univ. California Berkeley Distinguished Professor, ACM Fellow, NAE Member, AAAS Fellow	*none yet*
♦	10- Cristina Amon	Univ. of Toronto Dean-Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, IEEE Fellow, SWE Achievement Award, Canadian Academy of Eng., Spanish Royal Academy, Royal Society of Canada, US NAE	Linked Here
♦	9- Betsy Ancker-Johnson	1st observation of microwave emission without the presence of an external field (1967), Fellow Am Physical Society, Fellow AAAS, IEEE Fellow, Member NAE	Linked Here
♦	8- Arati Prabhakar	US DARPA Director, IEEE Fellow, Head National Institute of Standards and Technology (US NIST)	Linked Here
♦	7- Sophie Vandebroek	CTO Xerox, IEEE Fellow, WITI Hall of Fame, Royal Flemish Academy for Arts & Sciences Member	*none yet*
♦	6- Ruzena Bajcsy	Univ. California Berkeley Professor, NAE Member, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAI member, AAAS member	Linked Here
♦	5- Laurie Hendren	Professor McGill Univ., ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada	*none yet*
♦	4- Lixia Zhang	Univ. California, Los Angeles Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow	*none yet*
♦	3- Betty Snyder	ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
♦	2- Kay McNulty	ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
Spades	Queen– Grace Hopper	US Navy Admiral, 1st compiler for a programming language 1952, Computer History Museum Fellow, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow AAAS	Linked Here
♠	King– Chieko Asakawa	IBM Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, Japan Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon	*none yet*
♠	Jack– Denice Denton	Univ. California Santa Cruz Chancellor, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow	Linked Here
♠	Ace– Radia Perlman	Intel Fellow, IEEE Fellow, 1st ABI Women of Vision award winner	Linked Here
♠	10- Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza	Professor PUC Rio de Janeiro, CHI Academy	*none yet*
♠	9- Linda Petzold	Univ. California Santa Barbara Professor, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, NAE Member	*none yet*
♠	8- Jennifer Widom	Professor Stanford Univ., ACM Fellow, AAAS Member, NAE Member	Linked Here
♠	7- Jean Sammet	IBM Researcher, 1st woman ACM President, ACM Fellow, Computer History Museum Fellow	Linked Here
♠	6- Helen Greiner	CEO of CyPhy Works, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
♠	5- Anuradha Annaswamy	MIT Senior Research Scientist, IEEE Fellow, Hay Medal – Indian Institute of Science	*none yet*
♠	4- Qiheng Hu	Founder, China Internet Network Information Center, Internet Hall of Fame, Research Professor – Chinese Academy of Sciences	*none yet*
♠	3- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum	ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
♠	2- Fran Bilas	ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
Clubs	Queen– Katherine Johnson	NASA Mathematician, calculated the trajectory of early space launches 1959	Linked Here
♣	King– Augusta Ada Lovelace King	Mathematician, 1st computer programmer 1843	Linked Here
♣	Jack– Jennifer Chayes	Microsoft Research Distinguished Scientist, ACM Fellow, ABI Women of Vision	Linked Here
♣	Ace– Vicki Hanson	Professor Univ. of Dundee, ACM Fellow, SIGCHI Social Impact Award, ABI Women of Vision, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh	*none yet*
♣	10- Ellen Ochoa	NASA Astronaut and Johnson Space Center Director, 1st Hispanic woman in space, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Harvard Foundation Science Award, San Diego State Univ. Alumna of the Year	Linked Here
♣	9- Tova Milo	Professor Tel Aviv Univ., ACM Fellow	Linked Here
♣	8- Valerie Taylor	Professor Univ. Texas A&M, IEEE Fellow	*none yet*
♣	7- Kathleen McKeown	Professor Columbia Univ., ACM and AAAI Fellow, Founding Fellow Association for Computational Linguistics, ABI Women of Vision	*none yet*
♣	6- Susan Landau	Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ABI Women of Vision	Linked Here
♣	5- Mary Lou Jepsen	Google X Head of the Display Division, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here
♣	4- Kristina Johnson	Undersecretary US Dept. of Energy, IEEE Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, SWE Achievement Award	Linked Here
♣	3- Sophie Wilson	Broadcom Director IC Design, Designer Acorn Microcomputer, Computer History Museum Fellow, Fellow Royal Society-London	Linked Here
♣	2- Jean Bartik	ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame	Linked Here

A project by: Susan Rodger (Duke University Computer Science Professor of the Practice), Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and Katy Dickinson (Everwise Vice President – Mentoring)

Updated 4 January 2019.

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September 26, 2014 · 8:46 pm

Notable Women in Computing Playing Cards – GHC14

Professor Susan Rodger (Duke University), my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I are almost done with our Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) project “Notable Women in Computing and Wikipedia”. We are collaborating on both a formal GHC14 conference poster plus playing cards featuring 54 notable technical women. This has taken a long time to prepare but they are looking good. The honorees we have worked with have been entirely supportive and excited about this project.

This work is associated with the “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing” project that Susan and I have worked on for years. Jessica has been our creative designer, production staff, and GHC14 project manager. Duke University and Everwise are project sponsors. Information is not complete on all of the honorees (so there will be some cards featuring just a silhouette) but dozens of the featured women have sent us photos or given us permission to use photos from their professional pages.

Hearts cards shown here:

Queen – Frances Allen – IBM Fellow Emerita, Turing Award, Computer History Museum Fellow, IEEE Fellow
King – Barbara Liskov – MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM Fellow, SWE Achievement Award
Jack – Shafrira Goldwasser – MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM-W Athena Lecturer
Ace – Hessa Sultan Al Jaber – Qatar ICT Minister, Chair CS Department – Qatar Univ.
10 – Mary Jane Irwin – Pennsylvania State Univ. Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, NAE Member, ACM-W Athena Lecturer

Because I am mentoring a TechWomen Emerging Leader from Jordan who is arriving just as GHC14 starts, for the first time in ten years I cannot attend the Hopper Conference myself, but Dr. Susan Rodger will present our poster and she will be distributing the decks of cards from the Duke University table. The cards will be marked Creative Commons * and we will provide instructions if folks want to create another deck with different people honored. We expect that this deck will be a First Edition and that there will be corrections and updates as a result of GHC14 discussions, resulting in a Second Edition.

* The Notable Women in Computer Science project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing the card deck under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We have done a number of things to ensure this deck only helps, and does not hurt, women in computing. Our efforts included: using public domain images, seeking individual permission for images, seeking to represent the reality of diversity of women in computing, and seeking input on the project from women leaders in technology.

If you have a concern (don’t like the public domain photo we found of you, don’t think the photo you took can be licensed in the way we did, decided you did not want to be included) we want to know and we will do our best to help you. Please contact Katy Dickinson (katy dot dickinson at gmail dot com) with questions.

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September 26, 2014 · 8:25 pm

Opening Event for TechWomen 2014 Mentors

I am proud and honored to once again be a TechWomen mentor. Today was the orientation session for the mentors (generously hosted by LinkedIn in Mountain View, California). We meet our Emerging Leaders on 6 October. I am very much looking forward to working with my new mentee from Jordan on a project at Everwise in San Francisco. She and I have been speaking by Skype for the last few weeks – making plans. Lucy Keoni will be her Cultural Mentor and I will be her Professional Mentor next month. Since 2010, I have served with 250 outstanding women mentors from 89 Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area companies in this remarkable and life-changing program.

About TechWomen:

The mission of TechWomen is to empower, connect, and support the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by providing them access and opportunity to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and become role models for women and girls in their communities.

During the five-week program, participants engage in project-based mentorships at leading companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, participate in professional development workshops and networking events, and travel to Washington, D.C. for targeted meetings and special events to conclude the program.

Over the past three years, 156 women from Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunisia, Yemen, and Zimbabwe have participated in TechWomen.

TechWomen is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). TechWomen, launched by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011, supports the United States’ global commitment toward advancing the rights and participation of women and girls around the world by enabling them to reach their full potential in the tech industry.

TechWomen is managed by the Center for Women’s Leadership Initiatives (WLI) at the Institute of International Education (IIE).

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