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 HP‘s Research & Development division, Whitman‘s 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 Alzheimer‘s disease. She is also known for her earlier work on coordination of robot teams, and robot navigation. Her Interaction Lab‘s 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 Marvell‘s 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.
The U.S. – educated "geek" who hails from China co-founded Marvell Technology Group with her husband, Sehat Sutardja in 1995.
The company with 6000 employees and annual revenue of $ 3.4 billion is one of the world's leading producers of "fabless" semiconductors. It has clients like Apple, Samsung, Toshiba and Western Digital. She has a goal to make the California based Marvell, the biggest semiconductor company in China. "t's important for us to stay in Silicon Valley.
That's where the entire eco-system of great talent and technologies resides," says Wei, adding that over 1,600 Marvell employees are based in Shanghai and a second China campus will open soon. She also supports women‘s participation in technology, STEM education for girls. An active philanthropist, her company has a major partnership with the One Laptop per Child campaign.
# 10 Mary Meeker
General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mary Meeker (born September, 1959) is an American [1] venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst. The work that she does is primarily associated with the Internet. She is a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Meeker was born in Portland, Indiana, and holds a B.A. in psychology from DePauw University (1981) and an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University (1986). In addition, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw University.
Meeker has been holding court in Silicon Valley for nearly two decades now. In 2011 the famed Morgan Stanley analyst became a partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers. This step, which she took, landed her at No. 42 on FORBES 2012 Midas List of VC royalty. But it is her reputation for a clear vision in the tech industry that makes her a Power Woman.
She earned the title of "he Queen of the Net" after being dubbed so by Barron's Magazine in 1998 when she wrote "The Internet Report".
More lately her 2012 Internet Trend Report put just about every industry on alert. Her persuasive argument urged leaders to re-imagine nearly everything about their businesses in no uncertain terms from advertising, to mobile to media consumption. Meeker serves on the board of Square and is involved in KPCB's investments in Twitter, Groupon, Spotify, Jawbone and One King's Lane.
Questions for discussion:
1) Pick any person in this reading and write a 300 word essay on their life and why they inspire you.
2) Pick a computer scientist from Russia and write a small biography of them. You may say how much they inspire you!
3) Does programming require physical effort, mental creativity, innovative spirit, and a high degree of patience nowadays? What more qualities does a programmer need, to your mind?
4) Will you be considered a famous or great IT person in your lifetime? Write why or why not.
5) What innovative sector would you like to work in? What projects or programs would you take part in? What position would you choose for yourself?
6) Learn the names of developers and their innovations to be able to reproduce the information. Are you surprised at the number of persons in the list?
7) Prepare papers (доклады) and multimedia presentation on the list, discuss main points.
3 Women’s Journey in Scienсe: Seldom a Sheltered Harbor (L.Lovelace, H. Lamarr, A. – Selove, L. Meitner, E. Noether, de Beauvoir)
3.1 Стратегии усвоения грамматического материала:
– не боюсь делать грамматические ошибки: даже наиболее продвинутые в английском ошибаются грамматически;
