Dr. Anita Borg Dr. Anita Borg is President and Founding Director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT) in Palo Alto California. She is also a member of the research staff in the office of the chief technologist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and is on full-time loan to IWT. The Institute is an experimental research and advanced development organization focused on increasing the impact of women on technology and increasing the positive impact of technology on the world's women. In July 1999, Dr. Borg was appointed by President Clinton to the congressionally mandated Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA). Dr. Borg served as a member of the National Academy of Engineering's Steering Committee for a Celebration of Women in Engineering and the Committees on Women of both the CRA and the ACM. She has published many scholarly articles and has served on program committees for conferences in the computer architecture and operating systems communities. She is the founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (1994, 1997). In 1999 Dr. Borg received the Melitta Bentz Women of Innovation and Invention Award and the Outstanding Women's Achievement Award presented by Forbes and IBM. She was also recognized as one of the Smart 50 People by Smart Reseller Magazine and as one of Americas 100 Most Important Women by Ladies Home Journal. In 1998 Dr. Borg was inducted in to the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame. In 1995 she received a Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association of Women in Computing for her work on behalf of women in the computing field. Dr. Borg received her Ph.D. from New York University. She worked for four years on a fault tolerant operating system for Auragen Systems Corp (NJ) and then with Nixdorf Computer (Germany). She spent 1986-97 at Digital Equipment Corporation. At Digital's Western Research Laboratory, she developed and patented a performance analysis method for high-speed memory systems. At its Network Systems Laboratory, she developed MECCA, a system for communicating in virtual communities.