Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Forefront of information warfare, security, and cryptography fields

Adele Mildred Koss
Developed the first compilers

Esther Dyson
A powerful thinker in the computing industry!

Dr. Anita Borg
Founder of Systers

Margaret H. Hamilton
Founder of Higher Order Software

Dr. Ruth M. Davis
Distinguished in government service

Dr. Thelma Estrin
Professor of computer science at UCLA

Esther Dyson
1998 Lovelace Award Recipient

The Association for Women in Computing has chosen Esther Dyson to receive its highest award for excellence, the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, for her outstanding career and her influential role counseling the information technology industry in the consequences of its policies and decisions.

Long regarded as one of the most powerful thinkers in the computing industry, ESTHER DYSON, 47, is chairman of EDventure Holdings, a small but diversified company focused on emerging information technology worldwide and on the emerging computer markets of Central and Eastern Europe. EDventure Holdings publishes Release 1.0, a widely quoted and highly influential monthly newsletter, known for its early insights into industry trends, its witty commentary, and its direct confrontation of challenging subjects, such as intellectual property issues.

Dyson published her book Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age in 1997 in which she "hopes to provide an architecture - not a blueprint - for the new rights and rules of cyberspace... how to make it a world we want to live in." The paperback edition, Release 2.1, which will be published this fall, will include feedback Dyson has received from her readers.

Dyson is active in industry affairs as a director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit civil liberties organization that promotes freedom of expression and other rights and responsibilities on the Internet. In addition, she was a member of the U.S. National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (1994-1995) and co-chaired its Privacy and Intellectual Property subcommittee. She is a member of the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption. She sits on the boards and executive committees of the Eurasia Foundation, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Institute for EastWest Studies.