women in computer_science

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852), Augusta King wrote an early model for a computer and her notes were used as a description of a computer and software.

Carol Bartz, President and CEO of Yahoo!

Sophie Wilson, designed the Acorn Microcomputer.

Meg Whitman, CEO at eBay & HP. Meg was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine in 2004.

Anita Borg, founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT). She encouraged more women to become computer scientists.

Jean E. Sammet (1928), mathematician and computer scientist; made her own programming language called FORMAC. She spent 27 years at IBM.

Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Jennings, and Fran Bilas, original programmers of the ENIAC, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

Mary Allen Wilkes computer programmer. First person to use a computer in a private home.

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller the first woman to earn a Ph.D. degree in computer science. She helped invent the programming language BASIC.

Margaret Rock, Codebreaker at Bletchley Park.

Frances Allen Programmed languages and security codes for the NSA.

Martha Lane Fox, English businesswoman. She co-founded Lastminute.com. She is a board member of Channel 4, mydeco.com and Marks & Spencer.

Marissa Mayer, one of the first 20 engineers Ever at Google. She’s now Google’s Vice President of search and user experience.

Jenn Lukas is an HTML web designer. She has done web design projects for big names such as ESPN, United Healthcare, ABC Sports and Microsoft.

If you’re a girl and you love Computing,

have a look at how women have made huge successes from their skills

in programming and coding…