{"id":480,"date":"2013-10-15T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:49:11","slug":"her-in-hero-anita-borg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"HER in Hero: Anita Borg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated by: Janis Jefferies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jnai-photoChina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-481\" title=\"Jnai' photoChina\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jnai-photoChina-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jnai-photoChina-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jnai-photoChina-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jnai-photoChina-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anita Borg<\/strong>, the founding director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anitaborg.org\/\">Institute for Women and Technology (IWT).<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bring non-technical women into the design process<\/li>\n<li>encourage more women to become scientists<\/li>\n<li>and help the industry, academia, and the government accelerate these changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/resEXQgcaJo?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HER in Hero: Anita Borg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}