Women's History Month

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  1. 3. was responsible for the software that allowed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the Moon
  2. 4. mathematician that worked at NASA
  3. 7. inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems
  4. 8. She is one of the creators of Smalltalk-80—a programming language—while working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
  5. 10. American engineer and technologist. She was the third Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Assistant to the President, serving under President Barack Obama
  6. 11. to honor the achievements and contributions made by women throughout the history of the United States
  7. 13. the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders
  8. 15. world's first computer programmer
  9. 17. to study (something) closely and carefully
  10. 19. Her group operated the Network Information Center for the ARPANET as it evolved into the Defense Data Network and the Internet.
  11. 24. a woman who uses magic or sorcery, especially to put someone or something under a spell.
  12. 25. She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States
  13. 26. was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral.
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  1. 1. She was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country
  2. 2. a technological process for telling a computer which tasks to perform in order to solve problems
  3. 5. pioneering tech entrepreneur, philanthropist and icon for gender equality.
  4. 6. Design of the interactive operating system LAP6 for the LINC, one of the earliest such systems for a personal computer
  5. 9. She became the Chief of the Programming Research Branch, Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the David Taylor Model Basin in 1959, helped to develop UNIVAC
  6. 12. was an American computer scientist celebrated for advocating for women’s representation and professional advancement in technology.
  7. 14. mother of the internet
  8. 16. a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer
  9. 17. African American computer scientist and mathematician who made critical contributions to NASA's rocket systems and energy technologies
  10. 18. was an American computer programmer who was one of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer.
  11. 20. the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes or applications, whether in industry or in our everyday lives
  12. 21. a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
  13. 22. becoming NASA's first African American female engineer in 1958
  14. 23. a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development