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In addition, along her career Barbara Simons received the Alumnus of the Year Award from the Berkeley computer science department, the Norbert Wiener Award from CPSR and the Outstanding Contribution Award from ACM and the Pioneer Award from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). She was included in the top 100 women in computing. | In addition, along her career Barbara Simons received the Alumnus of the Year Award from the Berkeley computer science department, the Norbert Wiener Award from CPSR and the Outstanding Contribution Award from ACM and the Pioneer Award from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). She was included in the top 100 women in computing. | ||
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Barbara Simons got involved in the following projects: | |||
* Was one of the co-founders of Reentry Program for Women and Minorities in the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley; | |||
* She is on the Boards of the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC); | |||
* She is in the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT); | |||
* She is on the Board of Directors of VerifiedVoting.org; <ref>[http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=2074 Barbara Simons and VerifiedVoting]</ref> | |||
* She is on the Board of Directors at U.C. Berkeley Engineering Fund, the Math/Science Network, Public Knowledge, respectively the Electronic Privacy Information Center; | |||
* She is the Advisory Boards at Oxford Internet Institute and Zeroknowledge and PIR's; | |||
==References== | ==References== |