A Univeristy of Minnesota professor is one of the ten most wired women in the world, according to ABC news. Nora Paul directs the University's Institute for New Media Studies at the school of journalism. She focuses her work on maximizing the internet's potential to transform and improve the traditional news media. Other women on the list include the CEO of eBay and the director of the MIT Initiative on technology. Paul says she understood the promise of computer technology early on: