Women in Tech History
This woman is often called the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This recently-renovated student lounge is located on the second floor of Smith Hall.
This data structure follows the Last-In, First-Out (LIFO) principle.
What is a stack?
This website is one of the most popular websites used for technical interview prep.
What is LeetCode?
This is professor Silber's least favorite programming language. (Hint: it uses white space).
What is Python?
This computer scientist is famous for coining the term "debugging" and helped with development of COBOL.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This is the biggest CISC department event of the year, coming up this weekend.
What is HenHacks?
This is a low-level programming language that directly corresponds to machine language instructions.
What is Assembly Language?
This is the world's largest annual gathering of women and non-binary technologists.
What is the Grace Hopper Conference?
The word that describes breaking a large problem into smaller pieces. (Ex: Using multiple functions instead of putting everything in one very large file).
What is decomposition?
This NASA mathematician's calculations were critical to early U.S. space missions. Her story was featured in the movie Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The current Chair of the Computer and Information Sciences department at the University of Delaware.
Who is Weisong Shi?
This mathematical notation is used to describe time complexity and performance of an algorithm.
What is Big O notation?
This organization is the official world-leading student hackathon league and development community.
What is Major League Hacking (MLH)?
The current CEO of OpenAI.
Who is Sam Altman?
This woman led the software engineering team that developed the onboard flight software for the Apollo missions.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This professor usually teaches the Development of Assistive Technology course.
Who is Professor Yarrington?
This is the "brain" of the computer.
What is a CPU?
This online organization connects 40,000+ college and early-career women in tech fields, providing community, mentorship, career resources, and networking opportunities.
What is Rewriting the Code (RTC)?
The acronym "API" stands for ....
What is Application Programming Interface?
This woman was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in 1965. Previously, she earned degrees in math and physics from DePaul University.
Who is Sister Mary Kenneth Keller?
This professor's research centers on HPC, ML, and AI. She also directs the First State AI Institute at UD.
Who is Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran?
This algorithm finds the shortest path in a graph with non-negative edge weights.
What is Dijkstra's algorithm?
This website offers FREE courses in technical interview prep, AI Engineering, Web Development, and more to help students gain a competitive edge through real world projects.
What is CodePath?
This algorithm mimics the cooling process of metals in order to escape local optima by occasionally finding a worse solution.
What is simulated annealing?