DIGERATI

Black Digerati: Ethiopia Hewitt

Michael Lang — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:27:43 +0000

In case you're wondering, her real first name is definitely Ethiopia, just like the country located in the horn of Africa! Ethiopia Hewitt has been working in the field of web design and graphics for over five years. She has always had a talent for mathematics and a love for fashion and design. She pursued the former by studying for a mathematics degree from Spelman College. While at Spelman she explored her artistic interests by working as a production artist at an urban fashion

Black Digerati: Ejovi Nuwere

Michael Lang — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:30:42 +0000

Ejovi Nuwere grew up in the impoverished Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. After watching a close friend gunned down as a teenager and his mother succumb to drugs, Ejovi began searching for an escape and found it in technology. By the age of 15 Ejovi had become a computer security professional working for an Internet Service Provider in Manhattan that he originally hacked in to! By age 21 he was already an accomplished security expert working for one of the world's major investment

Black Digerati: Dr. Enid Montague

Michael Lang — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:38:06 +0000

Dr. Enid Montague is a human factors and ergonomics engineer, assistant professor and Anna Julia Cooper Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. For those of you who are wondering, Human Factors Engineering is the scientific discipline concerned with understanding the interaction between humans and other elements in a system, with the goal of enhanced performance, increased safety, and increased

Black Digerati: Andrea Grimes

Michael Lang — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:39:22 +0000

Andrea Grimes represents what our tagline is here at Noire Digerati, The Future Face of Technology! Andrea is a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Centered Computing at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech University. Her research lies within the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). A member of Associate Professor Beki Grinter's Work2Play Lab, Andrea's research involves studying aspects of human life to design technology that resonates with existing

Black Digerati: George T Hayes

Michael Lang — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:22:31 +0000

George is currently a graduate student at the School of Information at UC Berkeley focusing on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, and Information System Design. As an up and coming User Experience Designer and digital media artist, George currently works as a freelance User Experience Designer (UX Designer). In the past he worked for Neiman Group as a User Experience Architect and an Information Architect/User Experience Specialist at eCity Interactive in

Black Digerati: Jenna Wortham

Michael Lang — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:50:57 +0000

Jenna is a technology reporter for the New York Times where she covers Web start-ups, mobile communication, digital culture and the local tech scene for the Bits blog. Her stories typically focus on novel ways consumers are using technology to enhance their daily lives along with emerging Internet-based business models and personalities shaping the start-up industry. Before she joined the New York Times back in 2008, she was a culture reporter for Wired.com and a freelance writer for Wire Magazine.

Black Digerati: Rodney O. Lain (R.I.P)

Michael Lang — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:27:48 +0000

Let me start by confessing that I am an Apple addict and I pretty much purchase close to every product they put out, except of course for the iPhone until its taken off the awful AT&T network! I digress. Anyway, I recently read a book

Black Digerati: Sonya Donaldson

Michaela Ehimika — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:58:39 +0000

Meet Sonya Donaldson, a multi-talented Black Digerati fulfilling roles in the fields of technology, journalism, and higher education. Donaldson has been a journalist for nearly two decades---and she also has more than a decade

Black Digerati: Dr. Kunle Olukotun

Michael Lang — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:40:09 +0000

Dr. Kunle Olukotun is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the prestigious Stanford University where he has been on the faculty since 1991. Dr. Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology.

Black Digerati: Dr. Raquel Hill

Michael Lang — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:05:35 +0000

Dr. Raquel Hill is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. I came across Dr. Hill and her work recently while researching the PhD program in Social Informatics at Indiana University. Dr. Hill received her PhD in Computer Science from the prestigious Harvard University and her M.S. and Bachelors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. What stood out the most to me about Dr. Hill was not that she got her