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