Evi Nemeth, associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named one of the Top 25 Women on the Web by a San Francisco organization that supports and encourages women in the field of high technology.
Nemeth, who has been on the CU-Boulder faculty since 1980, received the award Jan. 20 in San Francisco at the second annual awards ceremony of San Francisco Women on the Web.
Nemeth's primary contributions have been in the area of teaching and mentoring students in networking and system administration. She is the lead author of the best-selling "UNIX System Administration Handbook," published by Prentice Hall in 1995, which is about to go into its third edition.
Nemeth spent the last year at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis in San Diego, where she developed a Web site that is a repository of Internet Engineering Curriculum materials. The site at , which is funded by the National Science Foundation, serves universities that do not have networking courses or that need to update them with the latest materials used in similar courses around the country and the world.
More than 200 professionals were nominated for this year's awards and judged by a panel of their peers. Those honored were believed to have made the most significant contributions "to the advancement of technology and the advancement of women in technology related fields." Winners were chosen from the fields of business, design, journalism, engineering, academia and philanthropy.
Other winners include Anita Borg, president and founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology; Carol Moore, vice president of corporate Internet programs for IBM; U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and ABC technology correspondent Gina Smith.
For more information, the organization's Web site can be found at .