[IP] Computer Scientist Anita Borg Dies at 54

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Barbara Simons <simons@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:37:06 -0700
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Computer Scientist Anita Borg Dies at 54

Dear Dave and Declan,
Anita was a wonderful person who lived life fully.  "Visionary" is an
over-hyped word, but she was one of the few people who truly was a
visionary.  Her death is an terrible loss for us all.  The Institute for
Women and Technology, which Anita founded, has a more detailed article about
her at http://www.iwt.org/news/anitaborg/inmemory.htm.
Barbara

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20030
408/ap_on_hi_te/obit_borg

Computer Scientist Anita Borg Dies at 54

By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Anita Borg, a pioneering computer scientist who worked to
break the "silicon ceiling" that often kept women and minorities from rising
to the top of the high-tech industry, has died. She was 54.

She died of brain cancer Sunday at her mother's home in Sonoma, Calif.,
according to the Institute for Women and Technology.

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