TECHNOLOGY
Women Making a Difference
Women of Vision Award Winners
About the Women of Vision Award Winners
The Women of Vision (WOV) Awards honor women making significant contributions to
technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact. The three winners
were selected from a field of highly qualified women all of whom are engaged in technology
professions in industry, academia, NGO’s or government. Candidates for the awards are con-
sidered based on their records of (1) consistent, significant contributions to technology inven-
tion and application; (2) effecting positive changes in the ways in which technology impacts
society; and (3) demonstrated leadership in the technology industry that extends beyond their
place of work.
Mitchell Baker Yuqing Gao, Senior Manager, IBM T.J.Watson
Chairperson, Mozilla Corporation Research Center
Mitchell Baker is the Women of Vision Award winner in Yuqing Gao is the Women of Vision Award winner in the
the Leadership category. Mitchell Baker is recognized for her Innovation category. Yuqing Gao headed the Laboratory for
work as the leader of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit Speech to Speech Translation Systems at IBM. She was also the
organization dedicated to openness and innovation on the principal investigator of DARPA CAST and TransTac Programs
Internet. Her work with the Mozilla Foundation and the at IBM and led the research and development of IBM MASTOR
Firefox Web Browser has evolved the technology around web (Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator) systems
browsing with more than 200 million users worldwide. Her which is leading the industry in automated speech translation.
leadership in the Open Source movement has impacted mil- Her work in speech processing has led to the development of
lions of people, through her way of integrating and unifying an English-Iraqi speech to speech translation system, which is
the work of company employees and an international com- widely deployed with the US military and enables personnel to
munity of volunteers. interact directly with civilians in Iraq.
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