10 Incredible Women in AV History

10 Incredible Women in AV History

Learn about how women have impacted the AV industry.

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Leslie-Ann Jones is a multiple ​

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award-winning recording engineer and Director of Music Recording and Scoring for ​

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. Leslie was a true trailblazer as the first female Recording Engineer to work for ​

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. In 2018, Leslie was inducted to the TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) Hall of Fame.​

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Grammy

SkyWalker Sound

ABC Studios

Oscar

Lucasfilm

CBS Studios

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• Barbra Lisckov

• Elizabeth (Betsy) Cohen

• Marion Keisker

• Radia Perlman

• Hertha Ayrton

1st women to earn a Ph.D. in ComputerSci

1st female president of AES

1st to record Elvis at Sun Records

invented the Spanning Tree Algorithm

1st female member of IEE

• 1st women to earn a Ph.D. in ComputerSci

• 1st female president of AES

• 1st to record Elvis at Sun Records

• invented the Spanning Tree Algorithm

• 1st female member of IEE

not only the first female president of the Audio Engineering Society, but also the first woman to serve on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technology Council. As an Acoustical Engineer with a Ph.D. in acoustics from Stanford University, Elizabeth has made fundamental contributions to architectural acoustics and pitch perception.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Cohen

one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. in computer science. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Barbara led the design of the CLU programming language that presented the fundamentals for JAVA and other currently used computer languages. Most notably, Barbara was awarded the A.M. Turing award in 2018.

Barbara Lisckov

Marion Keiske

makes her mark in music history as the first person to ever record Elvis Presley at Sun Records in 1954. Marion continued an incredibly successful career in radio and broadcast that paved the way for future generations of female broadcasters.

Radia Perlman

invented the Spanning Tree Algorithm in 1980, which we still use for routing IP today. We can thank Radia for designing a protocol that allows for Ethernet making optimal use of bandwidth. With more than 100 patents to her name and a Ph.D. from MIT, Radia rightfully takes a spot in the Internet Hall of Fame.

Marion Keiske

invented the Spanning Tree Algorithm in 1980, which we still use for routing IP today. We can thank Radia for designing a protocol that allows for Ethernet making optimal use of bandwidth. With more than 100 patents to her name and a Ph.D. from MIT, Radia rightfully takes a spot in the Internet Hall of Fame.

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Hedy Lamarr was awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award for her invention of spread spectrum technology in 1997. Hedy received the patent for her “Secret Communications System” in 1941 but spread spectrum technology would not be utilized until decades later. Without Hedy’s ingenuity, we would not have

• WIFI

• Other digital communication systems

• printers

• Samson and Delilah (1950)

Multiple Choice

Clark calculator which solved equations involving electric current, voltage, and impedance in power transmission lines was invented by ____

• Edith Clarke

• Anne-Marie Bruneau

• Megan Watts Hughes

• Hedy Lamarr

Edith Clarke became the first woman to graduate with and M.S. In Electrical Engineering at MIT. In 1954, Edith earned a lifetime achievement from the Society of Women Engineers.

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Both Anne-Marie Bruneau and Megan Watts Highes are known for their contributuion to the ​

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of AV.

Anne co-founded a(n) ​

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in France where leading research on acoustical design still takes place.

Megan's visual recordings help ​

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study the relationship between pitch and wavelengths

Learn more about notable women in AV

For more information about Women in AV and to connect with industry peers, learn more about the AVIXA Women's Council. 

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