Valerie Aurora | |
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Born | Val Henson United States |
Alma mater | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
Occupation | Feminist activist |
Known for | Founder of the Ada Initiative |
Awards | O'Reilly Open Source Award |
Website | Official website ![]() |
Valerie Anita Aurora[1] is an American software engineer and feminist activist. She was the co-founder of the Ada Initiative,[2] a non-profit organization that sought to increase women's participation in the free-culture movement, open-source technology, and open source culture. Aurora is also known within the Linux community for advocating new developments in filesystems in Linux, including ChunkFS and the Union file system.[3] Her birth name was Val Henson, but she changed it shortly before 2009, choosing her middle name after the computer scientist Anita Borg.[1] In 2012, Aurora, and Ada Initiative co-founder Mary Gardiner were named two of the most influential people in computer security by SC Magazine.[4] In 2013, she won the O'Reilly Open Source Award.[5]
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