Nominated by: Janis Jefferies

Anita Borg, the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT). Anita Borg died sadly in April of 2003 from brain cancer at the age of 54. Beginning in 1997, the institute was supported and funded by Xerox. Her goals for the institute were threefold:

• bring non-technical women into the design process
• encourage more women to become scientists
• and help the industry, academia, and the government accelerate these changes.