Programming Pioneers
She is considered the world's first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This NASA mathematician's story was featured in the film Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
She won two Nobel Prizes, in Physics and Chemistry, for her work on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This nonprofit founded by Reshma Saujani aims to close the gender gap in technology.
What is Girls Who Code?
This Hollywood actress co-invented frequency hopping technology that paved the way for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
Known as the "Mother of COBOL", she created the first compiler.
Who is Grace Hopper?
She was the first Black woman engineer at NASA, also featured in Hidden Figures.
Who is Mary Jackson?
This scientist's X-ray diffraction images of DNA were critical to discovering its double-helix structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
She became the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 tech company, Hewlett-Packard, in 1999.
Who is Carly Fiorina?
She created the Liskov Substitution Principle, a foundation of object-oriented programming.
Who is Barbara Liskov?
This group of six women were the original programmers of the ENIAC computer during WWII.
Who are the ENIAC Six?
This NASA chemist worked to develop heat shields and space shuttle technology.
Who is Annie Easley?
This physicist discovered pulsars in 1967 as a graduate student.
Who is Joceyln Bell Burnell?
This woman co-founded the online coding education platform "code.org".
Who is Hadi Partovi's sister, Ali Partovi?
Known as the "Mother of the Internet", she invented the Spanning Tree Protocol.
Who is Radia Perlman?
She developed the LISP programming environment at MIT in the 1960s.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This early computer pioneer worked on the LINC computer and is considered the first home computer user.
Who is Mary Allen Wilkes?
Known as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, her theorem underpins modern algebra.
Who is Emmy Noether?
in 2006, she became the first woman to win the Turing Award for her work in compiler optimization.
Who is Frances E. Allen?
This chemist invented Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests.
Who is Stephanie Kwolek?
She developed the first widely used object-oriented programming language, Smalltalk.
Who is Adele Goldberg?
She co-founded the first software company, Cucumber, in 1955, long before "tech startups" existed.
Who is Stephanie Shirley?
This American Astronaut was the first woman in space from the United States.
Who is Sally Ride?
She co-founded the algorithm that powers Google's search ranking and became a professor at Princeton.
Who is Jennifer Widom?
She developed the first computer compiler for natural language, making programming accessible to non-mathematicians.
Who is Grace Hopper?