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Notable Women in Computer Science

Issued: 6.6.2021
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9.18.2022
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Augusta Ada Kin (o)
Countess of Lovelace

The First Computer
Programmer

Adele Goldberg

Help Design & Develop
"SmallTalk"


Dame Stephanie "Steve"
Shirley

Philanthropist and an
early advocate for Women
working in the IT Industry

Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover

Invented a computerized
switching system for
telephone traffic while at
AT&T

Awarded one of the first
software patents ever issued

Admiral Grace Brewster
Murray Hopper

Mother of COBOL
Wrote the first compiler
   

Barbara H. Liskov

1st US Woman to receive a
PhD in Computer Science
Stanford 1968
and is a Turing Award
winner

Jean E. Sammet

Developed FORMAC
Programming Language

First widely used computer
language for symbolic
manipulation of
mathematical formulas
Mary Allen Wilkes

First person to use a
computer in a private
home (1965)

First developer of an
operating system (LAP)
for the first minicomputer
(LINC)

Sally Floyd

Known for her work on
Transmission Control
Protocol
(the TCP in TCP/IP)
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