Who We Are: Rebecca Norlander

Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation.

Rebecca NorlanderIn November 2006, Rebecca became Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Ray Ozzie. Rebecca started as a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft in 1991. Since then, she has traveled the company through various development organizations, most recently as General Manager of the System Protection Team in Windows. In the interim, she has played various technical roles in the Office team, the COM team, and the IE team, and as the leader of Microsoft Windows XP SP2. She keeps coming to work because she is passionate about the positive potential of software in the world.Rebecca graduated with a BA in Computer Science in 1991 and she was a lead speaker at the 2002 Grace Hopper, Women in Computing conference.

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  • William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
  • Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
  • Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
  • Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
  • Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
  • Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
  • Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

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