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- 2. This influential woman was one of four African Americans who worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and developed and implemented code that led to the development of the batteries used in hybrid cars. She is well known for being one of the famous women in technology for encouraging women and people of her color to study and enter STEM fields.
- 4. In the 1960s she started to work on information retrieval (IR) and introduced the IDF term weighting which has been adopted by modern systems such as web search engines. She was a major figure in setting standards for a large proportion of the work in natural language processing (NPL) in the US and other countries. She taught many Ph.D. students in computer speech and language the diverse areas of NPL and IR. She is well known for working on the IR and introducing the IDF term to produce natural language for the search engines that we use daily.
- 6. This woman is referred to as the first programmer because she had written notes that explained how the notion of a specific engine could transition calculation to computation.
- 8. During her years in the Naval Reserve, she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp in 1949 where she designed a compiler that translated programmer’s instructions into computer codes. In 1957, her division developed the first English language data processing compiler.
- 10. In the 1980s she invented the spanning tree algorithm and the spanning tree protocol. The spanning tree algorithm transformed ethernet from a single wire CSMA into a protocol that could handle large clouds. She's known as the ‘mother of the internet’ and for creating STP which is fundamental for the operation of network bridges.
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- 1. She worked with computers such as the IBM 709 and IBM 704 for a year in 1959-1960. In 1961 she joined the digital computer group and contributed to the LNC development of TX-2, as she designed and wrote the operators manual for the final console design. She is known for helping develop the first personal computer and was also the first person to have a PC in her home.
- 3. This brilliant woman was a director of the network information systems center at the Stanford research institute. The institute oversaw internet addresses and if you wanted a domain, you would have to go to her. The network information center was like the prehistoric google and by the late 1980s, the community had moved to the domain name system which helped lay the foundation for the modern internet. She is well known for being one of the famous women in technology for helping the Stanford research institute transition to the domain name system and introducing the domain name protocol, she’s the one to thank for the dot coms, dot nets, and dot govs used daily.
- 5. This woman worked in the all-black computing section at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. The launch of the Soviet satellite sputnik changed history along with her life as she was the one who manually run the same equations through her desktop that the machine used to ensure that they were safe to go before take-off. This was a very big responsibility for her as the astronauts’ lives were in her hands and were not taking off until they received the signal from her. The flight was a success and marked a turning point in the competition between the US and the Soviet Union in space.
- 7. This woman was a researcher at the Xero Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) and was the only woman among the group of men who built the Smalltalk-80 together. The Smalltalk-80 was a programming language which they developed the infrastructure and design for so windows could overlap on display screens, formally known as Graphical User Interface (GUI). She presented the Smalltalk system to Steve Jobs who implemented many ideas in the alto into his Apple products. Therefore, she is known as one of the famous women in technology who inspired Steve Jobs's creation of the first Apple computer as, without her, the Apple desktop environment may not look the way it does today.
- 9. This amazing woman teamed up with 2 other scientists to develop the BASIC computer programming language. In 1965 she earned her PH. D. in computer science from the University of Michigan. She went on to develop a computer science department in a catholic college for women called Clarke College. She is known as one of the famous women in technology for being the first woman to receive a PH. D in computer science.