Newsletters ABI’s Newsletter – June 2007

May was an exciting month at the Anita Borg Institute. We recognized three amazing Women of Vision at the 2nd Annual Women of Vision Awards, launched a new website (www.anitaborg.org), and officially welcomed our first affiliate, MentorNet.

We encourage you to nominate an international woman for our Change Agent Scholarships and stay apprised of

upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration deadlines and what’s happening at ABI.
IN THIS ISSUE
WOMEN OF VISION, SHARE THE VISION
BUILDING COMMUNITY ON BRIDGE DAY
CHANGE AGENTS AT GHC
IMPORTANT DATES
TOOLS FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY
DEADLINES
AFFILIATES AND COMMUNITY NEWS

WOMEN OF VISION, SHARE THEIR VISION

WOV2007Winners

“It was fabulous!“

The 2nd Annual Women of Vision Awards presented May 3, 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, gathered six hundred people together for the opportunity hear the dynamic stories and inspiration of the 2007 recipients: Leah Jamieson, Deborah Estrin and Duy-Loan Le. ABI would like to Share their Vision with you. Follow the links to enjoy each winner’s award video and keynote speech.

An important part of the evening was not only recognizing the award winners but recognizing Who Inspired You?- women and men who’ve provided guidance, motivation or support to women in technology.Be a Woman of Vision, and SHARE THE VISION with your friends!

BUILDING COMMUNITY ON BRIDGE DAY
Richard Tapia logo Have you heard? History is being made.

The two biggest technical conferences addressing diversity in the computing field are coming together. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) and the Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia) are co-locating.

Change Agents At GHC
2006 Change Agent Awards Last year the Grace Hopper Celebration hosted three women from emerging countries thanks to Fran Allen’s generous donation.

Caroline Simard, Research Associate, states, “I had the honor of sitting down with the three recipients of the Change Agent scholarships. These three technologists, at the top of their career, act as powerful agents of social change in the world”. Read More

The Change Agent Deadline is approaching and ABI is asking you to nominate an international woman.

IMPORTANT DATES
As you can see new and exciting things are happening at ABI. We have plenty going on and wouldn’t want you to miss a thing. Check out our Event Calendar which is growing and changing everyday.

Noteworthy dates to remember in June

AFFILIATES AND COMMUNITY NEWS

Welcome to our New Affiliate: MentorNet
We are delighted to welcome MentorNet, an established leader in the field of facilitating mentoring relationships in the technical community. Mentoring has been to shown to be one of the most effective means for proteges to shape their careers. Check it out!

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Fran Allen Wins Turing Award

Brenda Dietrich New IBM Fellow IEEE Computer Society Award

Deadlines Approaching

ABI would like to encourage you to nominate a woman or a person of color for one of these awards

Workshop for Women in Design Automation (WWINDA)-
June 4th Event

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TOOLS FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY

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By Erica Rios, Internet Project Manager

Anita Borg began using technology to build an online community for social change in 1987 with the creation of Systers.

This year, Systers turns 20 and ABI is working to expand our online reach, foster rich engagement within our community and provide women in technology places to gather, interact and learn.

Our first step is the launch of a new anitaborg.org website. It has a fresh new look, feel and approach. We’ve used an open-source solution called WordPress –a favorite of bloggers and now of ABI. With an events calendar, a news and resource section, and an rss feed, we hope you’ll find the new site useful and makes you want to participate in all ABI has to offer.

Thanks goes out to Kimberly Blessing and Phoebe Espiritu for all of their thoughtful work on the web re-design project. Not only did they deliver a beautiful and well-constructed site, they educated ABI on importance of web standards and accessibility.

In the months to come, we will be rolling out a variety of other online efforts to help build community including:

* The launch of a Grace Hopper Celebration forum and MySpace pages:
- talk shop and stay connected all year round.

* A LinkedIn philanthropy page:
- add an ABI badge to your page — a quick and easy way to network.

* An expansion of our Who Inspires You? pages:
- post your own stories of inspiration and inspire others.

Stay informed via our RSS feed and we’ll look forward to seeing you online or at one of our events.

Erica Rios

is blogging this week at NetSquared

– a conference on using web tools for social change.

DEADLINES

Applications Due
June 11


Change Agent Scholarship
Closing June 16

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