RIP, Anita Borg
by Esther Schindler
Anita Borg was instrumental in breaking through the silicon glass ceiling.
Borg, whom admirers described as a brilliant engineer, worked for Digital Equipment Corp.'s groundbreaking Palo Alto networking lab for more than a decade before leaving in 1997 to found the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT) at another celebrated research facility, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
I never met her, though we corresponded a few times. And now I've lost the chance.
