Elaine J. Weyuker

Leading researcher on rigorous software testing, including industrial evaluations of the comparative effectiveness and costs of such testing methods, Weyuker is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow (since 2003), and an AT&T...

Marian Croak

Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 for her work with voice over IP (VoIP), Croak is an African American engineer whose VoIP-related inventions have shaped modern communications. During...

Karen Banks

Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector," Banks is a British computer networking pioneer recognized for expanding internet access to underserved communities worldwide. In the 1990s,...

Mary Kenneth Keller

The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States, Keller was also among the first people of any gender to receive such a doctorate. Her degree was...

Diane B. Greene

Co-founder and former CEO of VMware, Greene led the company through an IPO and to a $2B run-rate. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Annapolis, Md. She received her...

Susan T. Dumais

Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...

Maxine Fassberg

Named one of the "10 most powerful women in tech" by CNN in 2010, Fassberg spent 33 years rising through key positions at Intel, ultimately serving as general manager and CEO of...

Arlene Joy Harris

Pioneer of the first automated cellular service activation systems now used globally in retail locations to remotely and instantly activate cellular phones, Harris is also known as the "First Lady of Wireless"...

Luba Cherbakov

Co-inventor and chief evangelist behind Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA), the industry's first SOA modeling method, Cherbakov is also a 2012 IBM Fellow — the 13th woman (and among only seventeen women)...

Stephanie Shirley

Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...

Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou

CTO of PatternInsight, a spin-off from her research group that has deployed software quality and security solutions used by many large commercial companies, Zhou co-founded the startup in 2007. She received several grants...

Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

Doris L. Carver

Researcher of system reengineering, software requirements methodologies, and formal model transformations, Carver directed the Software Engineering Laboratory at LSU, where she published over 80 technical papers and received funding from NSF, NASA,...

Virginia (Ginni) Marie Rometty

The first woman to serve as Chairman and CEO of IBM, Rometty held the positions of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. She was appointed President and CEO effective January...

Heike E. Riel

Major contributor to the development of the world's largest-ever (20") full-color amorphous-silicon active-matrix display based on organic light-emitting diodes, presented in May 2003, Riel has served as Manager of the Materials Integration...

Laura Haas

Best known for her work on the Starburst query processor, from which DB2 UDB was developed, Haas became a 2009 IBM Fellow and has served as Director of Computer Science at IBM...

Padmasree Warrior

Recognized by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world in 2014, Warrior is an Indian-American technology executive with a career spanning major roles in hardware, software, and...

Mary Allen Wilkes

Known for her work with the LINC computer, now recognized by many as the world's first personal computer, Wilkes contributed to this landmark machine as a programmer and logic designer. She later...

Susan Kare

Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, Kare is an artist and graphic designer whose iconic work includes the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket icons, and...

Lillian F. Schwartz

Considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art, Lillian F. Schwartz was one of the first artists to base almost her entire body of work on computational media. Much of her groundbreaking work was...