# 3 Judy Estrin
A serial entrepreneur, Estrin studied computer science at UCLA and electrical engineering at Stanford alongside Vint Cerf, who is recognized as one of the fathers of the internet, in the 1970s. At Zilog Corporation, she led a team that developed one of the first commercial LAN systems, and has co-founded three companies manufacturing networking devices and software. From 1998 to 2000, she served as CTO for Cisco Systems and has been a board member for Disney, FedEx, Rockwell and Sun Microsystems.
In 2008, feeling that the United States had become focused on short-term gains at the expense of encouraging creative opportunities, she published "Closing the Innovation Gap," which looks at how to sustain innovation on an organizational and national level. She is currently CEO of JLabs, a consulting and advocacy "work lab."
"Judy and Deborah (her sister) hail from (быть родом из) a strong family of successful technologists. Both their parents their mother Thelma, a WITI Hall of Fame winner as well set these remarkable women on an inevitable path to success, which was accomplished through encouragement and their own merits in their fields of study," says Carolyn Leighton.
# 4 Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin is a professor of computer sciences at UCLA (see Note ), and director of its multidisciplinary $40 million Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, which pioneers new technologies for collecting information from the physical world, and processing and communicating that information in useful ways. The idea is that, embedded with networked microprocessors, environments (buildings, buoys, ecosystems) could report and perhaps even correct in real-time their own faults.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineers and was inducted to the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2008.
"Deborah and Judy hail from a strong family of successful technologists. Both their parents their mother Thelma, a WITI Hall of Fame winner as well set these remarkable women on an inevitable path to success, which was accomplished through encouragement and their own merits in their fields of study," says Carolyn Leighton.
Note UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Университет штата Калифорния, Лос-Анджелес, 37 тыс. студентов, 11 факультетов, 163 здания. Проводит большой объём исследований, в том числе в области параллельных вычислений и нанотехнологий. web-site: http://www.ucla.edu
# 5 Sandy Carter
Sandy Carter is Vice President, Social Business Evangelism at IBM, where she is responsible for directing the company's social business initiatives, and working with clients to develop best practices. (Social business is the application of social media tools and techniques to a company's internal and external processes, in order to connect clients, partners, citizens and employees). Since joining the company in 1989, Carter has also been a VP of IBM's Service Oriented Architecture, which achieved 70 % market share under her management.
She is fluent in eight programming languages; has travelled to more than 60 countries; has authored three books about business and social media, and is one of IBM's top bloggers and tweeters, winning MarCom awards for her communities.
"Sandy Carter uniquely combines extraordinary expertise in the worlds of business and technology, traveling the world to evangelize the use of social media to help strengthen communication and revenue in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer strategy. She is a passionate, committed advocate and supporter of young women and girls achieving their greatest possible success," says founder and chairwoman of Women in Technology International (WITI), Carolyn Leighton.
# 6 Ginny Rometty
In October, 30-year IBM veteran "Ginni" Rometty was tapped as CEO, becoming the first woman to head the century-old tech giant. In her first year as chief, she is implementing a five-year strategy to use new markets like cloud computing and business analytics software to drive $20 billion of revenue growth by 2015, a goal she says IBM is "well on track" to achieve. While exceptionally private, she became the center of the conversation this year when historic Augusta National Golf Club upheld its controversial male-only policy and didn't extend an invitation to IBM's newest chief. Rometty started at IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer and climbed to head of global sales, where she oversaw results in 170 markets around the world.
# 7 Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman struck out in the 2010 election for governor of California, but it might have been a much easier job than turning around the struggling tech firm Hewlett-Packard. In January 2011, Whitman joined Hewlett-Packard's board of directors. She was named CEO on September 22, 2011. As well as renewing focus on HPs Research & Development division, Whitmans major decision during her first year as CEO has been to retain and recommit the firm to the PC business that her predecessor announced he was considering discarding. HP shares are down nearly 25 % this year, which makes the firm the lowest performer in the Dow Jones industrial average and Whitman's responsibilities as CEO are gargantuan.
At a conference in June she said it might take "four or five years" to fix the company. Her incentive stock options could be worth millions-but only if the stock price increases 40 % in the next 24 months under her watch.
She turned down Warren Buffett's invitation in 2011 to join the Giving Pledge, in which billionaires agree to donate half their fortune to charity. Her net worth has grown $300 million since September 2011 thanks to a 50 % surge in the value of her eBay shares.
# 8 Maja Matarić
Maja J Mataric is an American computer scientist and roboticist, and the Chan Soon-Shiong Chaired Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California, founding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab (robotics.usc.edu) and Vice Dean for Research in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
She is known for her work in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics, a new field she pioneered, which focuses on creating robots capable of providing personalized therapy and care through social rather than physical interaction, through technologies aimed at aiding special needs populations including children with autism spectrum disorders, stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors, and individuals with Alzheimers disease. She is also known for her earlier work on coordination of robot teams, and robot navigation. Her Interaction Labs research into socially assistive robotics is aimed at endowing robots with the ability to help people through individual non-contact assistance in convalescence, rehabilitation, training, and education.
Maja J. Matarić received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring at a White House ceremony in 2011.
She is one of the 2013 recipients of ABI's Women of Vision Awards.
# 9 Weili Dai
Co-founder, Marvell Technology Group. Dai is the only woman co-founder of an American semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she directed Marvells rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Ms. Dai's close relationship with her customers has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry. Ms. Dai has served a pivotal role in creating some of the Company's most important strategic partnerships and under her leadership Marvell's technology has become an integral component of many of the world's products in enterprise, communications, mobile computing, consumer and emerging markets.