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Valerie Anita Aurora is an American software engineer and feminist activist. She was the co-founder of the Ada Initiative, 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. Her birth name was Val Henson, but she changed it shortly before 2009, choosing her middle name after the computer scientist Anita Borg. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valerie Aurora is the 241st most popular computer scientist, the 19,216th most popular biography from United States and the 122nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Valerie Aurora is an American computer scientist and activist known for her work in the fields of open source software and gender diversity in technology. She is a co-founder of the Ada Initiative, which aimed to support women in open source and technology communities.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Valerie Aurora ranks 241 out of 245. Before her are Rosalind Picard, Andrej Karpathy, Denny Vrandečić, David Heinemeier Hansson, Hamza Bendelladj, and Dries Buytaert. After her are John Resig, Jamie Zawinski, Timnit Gebru, Justin Frankel, Manindra Agrawal, and Ian Goodfellow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Valerie Aurora ranks 19,225 out of 20,380. Before her are Derek Theler (1986), Payton Pritchard (1998), David J. Peterson (1981), Travis Willingham (1981), Darin Brooks (1984), Evan Mobley (2001), and Mark Pocan (1964). After her are Terri Sewell (1965), Hallee Hirsh (1987), Lena Hall (1980), Cory Gardner (1974), and Olivia Taylor Dudley (1985).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Valerie Aurora ranks 122. Before her are Douglas Crockford (1955), Steve Wilhite (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), Shawn Fanning (1980), Theodore Ts'o (1968), and Rosalind Picard (1962). After her are John Resig (1984), Jamie Zawinski (1968), Justin Frankel (1978), Ian Goodfellow (1987), Paul Buchheit (1977), and Blake Ross (1985).

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