The Women in Technology International Hall of Fame was established in 1996 by Women in Technology International (WITI) to honor women who contribute to the fields of science and technology.
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
1996
Ruth Leach Amonette (1916–2004), IBM's first woman vice president (1943–1953) Dr. Eleanor K. Baum (1940–), American electrical engineer and educator. First female dean of (Cooper Union) School of Engineering. First female president of the American Society for Engineering Education Dr. Jaleh Daie (1948–), managing partner, Aurora Equity, a Palo Alto-based investment company financing technology start ups. Treasurer of US Space Foundation (first woman appointed to its board of directors). Member of Band of Angels Dr. Barbara Grant, venture capitalist, former vice president and general manager in the Data Storage Division at IBM Stephanie L. Kwolek (1923–2014), inventor of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide (Kevlar) Dr. Misha Mahowald (1963–1996), computational neuroscientist Linda Sanford (1953–), IBM Enterprise Transformation (see also Linda Sanford's Oral History Interview) Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers (1953–), Under Secretary for Technology, US Commerce Department (1999–2001) Dr. Sheila Widnall (1938–), American aerospace researcher and Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United States Secretary of the Air Force (1993–1997) (first female Secretary of the Air Force). First woman to lead an entire branch of the U.S. military in the Department of Defense Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), Chinese-American physicist who worked on Manhattan Project
1997
Frances Allen (1932–2020), American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers (see also Frances Allen's Oral History Interview) Carol Bartz (1948– ), former president and CEO of Yahoo!, former chairman, president and CEO at Autodesk The ENIAC Programmers: The original six women programmers of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), first general-purpose electronic digital computer Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006) Jean Jennings Bartik (1924–2011) Frances Snyder Holberton (1917–2001) Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922–2008) Frances Bilas Spence (1922–2012) Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum (1924–1986) Pamela Meyer Lopker, founder, president and chairman of the board, QAD Inc., an Enterprise Resource Planning / manufacturing software company Marcia Neugebauer (1932–), American geophysicist whose research yielded first direct measurements of solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comet Donna Shirley (1941–), former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see also Donna Shirley Oral History Interview at NASA Oral History Project: "Herstory", Donna Shirley Interviews, Mars Exploration Program) Shaunna Sowell, former vice president and manager of Worldwide semiconductor Facilities, Texas Instruments Patty Stonesifer (1956–), former co-chair and chief executive officer of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, current president and CEO of Martha's Table Patricia Wallington, former corporate vice president and CIO, Xerox Corporation Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921–2011), American medical physicist, and co-winner of 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique. She was the second American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine after Gerty Cori
1998
Dr. Anita Borg (1949–2003), American computer scientist who founded the Institute for Women and Technology (now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology) and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus (1930–2017), Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) in the area of condensed matter physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (see also Vegas Science Trust video interviews with scientists: Mildred Dresselhaus) Dr. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist; 1988 recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Research led to the development of AIDS drug AZT Julie Spicer England former vice president, Texas Instruments, Incorporated General Manager, RFid Systems Eleanor Francis Helin (1932–2009), American astronomer who was principal investigator of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory