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MARCH 2017 TOP 10 WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF TECH
Top 10 women inthe history of techThe digital domain is slowly but surely changing with more and more women graduating with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) qualifications than ever before. During Women’s History Month and to commemorate International Women’s Day, we take a look at some of the women who have made major contributions to the tech world throughout history.
Recognised as being the first to understand how a computing machine could do
more than pure calculation. The work Lovelace produced in the 1840s has led to her
being named the world’s first computer programmer.
Ada lovelace
Credited with creating the world’s first computer code compiler during the 1940s,
Hopper is just as well known for inventing the term ‘debugging’ when she found a
moth inside a Mark 2 computer system.
grace hopper
At age of 37, Mayer was the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she was
appointed President and CEO of Yahoo! Mayer is known as the first female
engineer at Google in 1999.
Marissa Mayer
Dubbed, ‘Queen of the Small Screen” Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube. Previously
Wojcicki was Google’s 16th employee and is credited with major contributions to
Google AdWords, AdSense and Google Analytics.
Susan Wojcicki
Rebekah Sosland is the youngest ever Flight Director at NASA. Sosland leads the
tactical downlink team for NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover project.
Rebekah Sosland
In 2008, Sheryl Sandberg was named Facebook’s COO and four years later was
elected to the Board of Directors.
Sheryl Sandberg
Roberta and her husband Ken founded On-Line Systems in 1980. Williams designed
the first game that used colour graphics. The Wizard and the Princes became the
best-selling game on the Apple II computer in 1980.
Roberta Williams
Feinler was the Director of the Network Information Systems Centre at the
Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 80s. Feinler managed the team that
operated ARPANET – the early packet switching network that lay the technical
foundation for what would become the internet.
Elizabeth Feinler
In 1962, Sammet followed up on the work pioneered by Grace Hopper and created
FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler) while working at IBM.
Jean E Sammet
Tereshkova remains the only woman in the world to have made a solo space
voyage. In June 1963 at 26 years of age, she circled Earth 48 times over three days
for the USSR.
Valentina Tereshkova
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Image credit: Ken Williams
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Image credit: Computer History Museum
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