Essential System Administrationby AEleen Frisch (yes the Author)
Carol Bartz - Executive Chairman of the Board of Autodesk (you know Autocad?.... yes same people) Carol has done soooo much that it is easier to say, go to the link on her name.
Extracted from Wikipedia
1842: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), analyst of Charles Babbage's analytical engine and described as the "first computer programmer"
1942: Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000), Hollywood diva and co-inventor of an early form of spread-spectrum broadcasting
1946: Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman, original programmers of the ENIAC
1949: Grace Hopper (1906-1992), first programmer for the Mark I Calculator, known as the "Mother of COBOL"
1962: Jean E. Sammet (1928-), mathematician and computer scientist; developed FORMAC programming language. Was the first to write extensively about history and categorisation of programming languages (1969).
1968: Barbara H. Liskov (1939-), first American female Doctorate of Computer Science (1968)
1972: Karen Spärck Jones (1935-2007), pioneer of information retrieval and natural language processing
1983: Adele Goldberg (1945-), one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language
1984: Roberta Williams (1953-), pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the King's Quest series.
1985:Irma Wyman (~1927-), first Honeywell CIO
1988: Eva Tardos (1957-), recipient of the Fulkerson Prize for her research on design and analysis of algorithms
1993: Shafi Goldwasser (1958-), theoretical computer scientist, two-time recipient of the Gödel Prize for research on complexity theory, cryptography and computational number theory, and the invention of zero-knowledge proofs
1994: Sally Floyd (~1953-), most renowned for her work on Transmission Control Protocol
1997: Anita Borg (1949-2003), the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
2005: Mary Lou Jepsen (1965-), Founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
2006: Frances E. Allen (1932-), first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award
Ladies in NASA
Computer Systems, Computer Science, Engineers and Programmers
Bualat, Maria Computer Engineer / Ames Research Center
Buschmann, Sherry Engineer / Marshall Space Flight Center
Davies, Carol Research Specialist and Task Manager / Ames Research Center
Eskey, Megan Marketing Manager for the Applied Information Technology Division / Ames Research Center
Jackson, Lenore User Consultant/Information Specialist / Ames Research Center
Jarmann, Janet Computer Systems Analyst / Ames Research Center
Morrison, Stacey Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Space and Life Sciences Directorate / Johnson Space Center
Munoz, L. Christine Mac/PC Systems Administrator / Ames Research Center
2 comments:
A very interesting post, indeed! :)
Thanks :-)
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