Anita Borg (formerly Anita Manning) was a computer scientist renowned for her work in increasing the representation of women in technology. She is best known for founding the <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Grace%20Hopper%20Celebration%20of%20Women%20in%20Computing">Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing</a> conference in 1994, which has since become the world's largest gathering of women technologists.
Her career included positions at companies like Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Xerox PARC. At DEC, she developed and patented a method for generating high-speed address traces for analyzing and improving computer memory systems.
Manning was also deeply involved in the <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Sisterhood">Sisterhood</a>, an email network for women in computer science, and founded the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT), now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, dedicated to advancing the careers of women in computing. She believed in creating technology that was beneficial to all people and sought to ensure diversity was considered in the development of new technologies.
She was awarded the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award in 1995 and the EFF Pioneer Award in 1999. Anita Borg passed away in 2003 from brain cancer.
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