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Group at The Aerospace Corporation. Dr. Austin joined The

Aerospace Corporation as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1979.

During her tenure, she has made significant contributions to

systems engineering and simulation, satellite and payload

integration, and launch readiness and mission success on several

national security space systems. She has been instrumental in

realizing the full potential of advanced space technology on these

programs. As a result of her recent promotion to President and

CEO, she has shattered the glass ceiling and has opened a path for

aerospace industry women to reach new career heights.
-- Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for

Women & Information Technology and also serves as Executive-

in-Residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado

at Boulder. She has an extensive industry background, having

worked in R&D and executive positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent

Bell Labs, and Avaya Labs for over 20 years, where she specialized

in systems-level software and solutions (multi-media communication

and customer relationship management). In 1996, Lucy was awarded

the Bell Labs Fellow Award, the highest technical accomplishment

bestowed at the company, and she has six patents in the

communications technology area. Lucy serves on several boards,

including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

Board of Trustees at the University of California at Berkeley; the

Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Colorado at

Boulder; the Denver Public Schools Computer Magnet Advisory Board;

the Advisory Board for the Women's College Applied Computing

Program at the University of Denver; and several corporate boards.

In 2004, Lucy was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the

Department of Engineering at CU. Lucy also is Conference Chair for

the 2007 Grace Hopper Conference, having served as Program Chair

for the conference in 2006. She is currently serving on the

Information Technology Research and Development Ecosystem

Commission for the National Academies. Lucy received her B.S. and

M.S. in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and the

University of Colorado at Boulder, respectively.
-- Helen Greiner is co-founder and chairman of iRobot Corp. While at

iRobot, Ms. Greiner has invented and sponsored the innovation of

technologies that help to improve the human condition. Under her

leadership, iRobot has succeeded in building robots that help

people complete dull, dirty and dangerous tasks with better

results. Today, more than 1,000 iRobot PackBot® Tactical Mobile

Robots are keeping soldiers out of harm's way, and more than

2 million iRobot Roomba® Vacuum Cleaning Robots are helping people

maintain cleaner homes. Additionally, Ms. Greiner is an innovator,

and has recently spearheaded the development of iRobot Create™,

a programmable robot designed for aspiring roboticists, advanced

high-school and college students, and serious robot developers.

Ms. Greiner is committed to giving back to the community and

supports causes directly related to the advancement of women in

business and science. For example, she has participated in the

Society of Women Engineer's Extraordinary Women Engineer's

project, which is designed to encourage women to embark on

engineering careers. Ms. Greiner also is a Trustee of the Boston

Museum of Science.
-- Padmasree Warrior is executive vice president and chief technology

officer at Motorola, Inc. Responsible for the company's $4.1

billion research and development investment, Ms. Warrior's charter

is to drive innovation, prioritize technology programs and

accelerate creative research to commercialization. Ms. Warrior

has been recognized for shaping the vision of "seamless

mobility" for next-generation communications and focusing

Motorola's technology strategy to provide easy, uninterrupted

access to everything people want in an "always on" mobile world.

Ms. Warrior is an active leader in the global effort to "connect

the unconnected" -- bringing affordable wireless broadband

technology to previously underserved communities. Ms. Warrior is

revitalizing innovation at Motorola, transforming its intellectual

property portfolio and bringing an almost ten-fold increase in

labs technologies to market while reducing time to market by fifty

percent. Under Ms. Warrior's leadership, Motorola was awarded the

2004 National Medal of Technology by the President of the United

States -- the highest recognition of American innovation.

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