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 (born 1940), American electrical engineer and educator. First female dean of (Cooper Union) School of Engineering.Hatch, Sybil E. (2006). Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers. ASCE Publications, Proffitt, Pamela (1999). Notable Women Scientists. Gale Group, First female president of the American Society for Engineering Education Dr. Jaleh Daie (born 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 (born 1953), IBM Enterprise Transformation (see also Linda Sanford's Oral History Interview) Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers (born 1953), Under Secretary for Technology, US Commerce Department (1999–2001) Dr. Sheila Widnall (born 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 (born 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 (born 1932), American geophysicist whose research yielded first direct measurements of solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comet Donna Shirley (born 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 (born 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 AZTHolloway, M. (1991) Profile: Gertrude Belle Elion – The Satisfaction of Delayed Gratification, Scientific American 265(4), 40–44. Julie Spicer England (born 1957) former vice president, Texas Instruments, Incorporated General Manager, RFid Systems Eleanor Francis Helin (1932–2009MPML), American astronomer who was principal investigator of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1999
Yvonne Claeys Brill (1924–2013), Canadian scientist known for development of rocket and jet propulsion technologies at NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.QMI AGENCY, "Pioneer Canadian rocket scientist dead at age 88", The Toronto Sun, March 27, 2013Invent Now, "HALL OF FAME/ Inventor Profile" , Invent Now, Accessed March 27, 2013 (see also National Science & Technology Medals Foundation video) Sherita T. Ceasar, Vice President Product Engineering Planning and Strategy, Comcast Communications Dr. Thelma Estrin (1924–2014), computer scientist and engineer who pioneered work in expert systems and biomedical engineering. She was one of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research Dr. Claudine Simson, former executive vice president, chief technology officer, LSI Corporation; current Director & Business Development Executive, Research and IP, Worldwide Growth Markets, IBM Corporation Yukako Uchinaga (born 1947), vice president, IBM's Yamato Software Development Laboratory (see also Yukako Uchinaga's Oral History Interview)
2000
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar (1949–), former NASA astronaut; former president and CEO of The Museum of Flight. Leads the University of Houston's STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and math) and joined the faculty of the Cullen College of Engineering. (see also Q&A with Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering) Dr. Irene Greif, founder of field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). IBM Fellow; director, Collaborative User Experience research and IBM Center for Social Business. Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman (1926–2025), American nuclear chemist among researchers who confirmed existence of Seaborgium, element 106 Dr. Jennie S. Hwang, first woman to receive Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University's Materials Science and Engineering; expert in surface-mount technology Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (1946–), president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. American physicist. First African-American to serve as chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, elected to U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and to receive Vannevar Bush Award. She is first African-American woman to lead a top-50 national research university
2001 Duy-Loan Le (born 1962), Vietnamese American engineer and first woman and Asian to be elected to rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow Janet Perna, former general manager of information management solutions at [IBM] specializing in distributed database systems / IBM DB2 Darlene Solomon (born 1959), senior vice president, chief technology officer, Agilent Technologies specializing in Bio-analytical and electronic measurement
2002
Judy Estrin (born 1954 or 1955), American business executive, JLabs, LLC. Former chief technology officer for Cisco Systems Dr. Caroline Kovac, former general manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences (see also Caroline Kovac's oral history) Dr. Elaine Surick Oran (born 1946), senior scientist, Reactive Flow Physics, U.S. Naval Research Lab, Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics
2003 Chieko Asakawa (born 1958), IBM Fellow. Group Leader, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Accessibility Research; developed IBM Home Page Reader, a self-voicing web browser designed for people who are blind (see also Japanese Wikipedia entry) Wanda Gass, Texas Instruments Fellow; executive director and founder, High-Tech High Heels ("HTHH"), a donor-advised fund at Dallas Women's Foundation that funds programs to prepare girls to pursue degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) (see also Wanda Gass oral history) Dr. Kristina M. Johnson (born 1957), American former government official, academic, engineer, and business executive Shirley C. McCarty, aerospace consultant
2004
Dr. Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D. (born 1939), founder of modern plant biotechnology and genetic modification; known as the "queen of Agrobacterium" Eileen Gail de Planque, Ph.D. (1944–2010), expert on environmental radiation measurements; first woman and first health physicist to become a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner; technical areas of expertise include solid state dosimetry, radiation transport and shielding, environmental radiation, nuclear facilities monitoring and problems of reactor and personnel dosimetry Dr. Pat Selinger, IBM Fellow; American computer scientist best known for her work on relational database management systems (see also Patricia Selinger oral history) Judy Shaw, director, CMOS Module Development at Texas Instruments Dr. Susan Solomon (1956–2010), atmospheric chemist; first to propose chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism as cause of Antarctic ozone hole
2005
Barbara Bauer, technology innovation, software development, global management Sonja Bernhardt OAM (born 1959), Australian information technology executive; founder and Inaugural President of WiT (Women in Technology) in Queensland Sandra Burke Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist, former pre-clinical cardiovascular researcher at Abbott Vascular's Research and Advanced Development; developed drug-coated stent intravascular stents for treatment of restenosis Melendy Lovett (born c. 1959), senior vice president of Texas Instruments; president of Texas Instruments's worldwide Education Technology business; STEM education and workforce advocate, High-Tech High Heels (HTHH) Amparo Moraleda Martínez (born 1964), former COO Iberdrola International Division; former president for Southern Europe, IBM (see also Spanish language Wikipedia entry) Neerja Raman, global manufacturing and poverty. Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University; advisor, Committee for Cyber-Infrastructure, National Science Foundation; formerly HP Labs
2006 Maria Azua, former IBM Vice President of Advanced Cloud Solutions, former IBM VP of Technology & Innovation; patent in Transcoder technology, Java implementation and enhancements, data manipulation Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947) French virologist; director of Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) at Institut Pasteur. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2008) for discovery of virus responsible for HIV Kim Jones (born 1956 or 1957), former president and managing director for Sun Microsystems UK & Ireland; former VP of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences, Sun Microsystems; chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Curriki Nor Rae Spohn, former SVP Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Printing Business Dr. Been-Jon Woo, director, Technology Integration & Development, Intel
2007
Dr. Wanda M. Austin (born 1954), first African American President and CEO, The Aerospace Corporation Helen Greiner (born 1967), co-founder of iRobot; CEO of CyPhyWorks, maker of the hover drone. Director of the board, Open Source Robotics Foundation (see also National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), Interview with Helen Greiner)