In the history of technology, Valerie Aurora is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Valerie Aurora as American computer scientist and activist.
Valerie Aurora was born at United States in 1978. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.
She worked as computer scientist, women's rights activist and engineer.
Her affiliations include IBM, Sun Microsystems and Intel.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
Her work was formally recognised with the O'Reilly Open Source Award.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Valerie Aurora is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Affiliated with IBM, Sun Microsystems and Intel
- Educated at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- Worked as computer scientist, women's rights activist and engineer
