JUST HOW BIG OF A ROLE HAVE WOMEN PLAYED IN SHAPING TECHNOLOGY? You may be surprised. Check out the impressive accomplishments of just

a few of the amazing women history forgot.

TECH HISTORYFORGOTTEN WOMEN IN

PRESENTED BY

HAVING MORE WOMEN IN TECH,AND RECOGNIZING AND CELEBRATING

THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT BEGAN OVER A CENTURY AGO AND CONTINUE

TODAY, IS VITAL TO PRODUCING A MORE POWERFUL FUTURE.

One way of changing this is CAREFULLY DOCUMENTING THE ROLE WOMEN PLAYED IN THE DAWN OF TECHNOLOGY.

In tech, girls don’t code because girls don’t code.

Sheryl SandbergFacebook COO

Although the computer

wasn’t built until the 21st

century, her work earned

her the title of the FIRST

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

IN HISTORY.

Ada LovelaceADA LOVELACEAn English mathematician and

writer, Ada Lovelace is widely

regarded as the founder of

scientific computing. In 1843,

she published instructions for

the world’s first algorithm

intended to be processed by

a computer.

Grace Hopper was not only

one of the first programmers,

she was also the first woman

to graduate from Yale with

a Ph.D. in mathematics,

and the first woman

to reach the rank of

Admiral in the U.S. Navy.

In 1951, SHE INVENTED THE

FIRST COMPILER, effectively

creating the basis of modern

computing.

GRACEHOPPER

Built for the US Army during

World War II, The ENIAC

(Electronic Numerical

Integrator and Computer)

was the FIRST GENERAL-

PURPOSE ELECTRONIC

DIGITAL COMPUTER.

A group of six women, commonly

referred to as “The ENIAC six,”

were charged with programming

it: Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances

“Betty” Snyder Holberton,

Kathleen McNulty Mauchly

Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer,

Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum,

and Frances Bilas Spence.

JEAN JENNINGS BARTIKAND THE ENIAC SIX

In the 1950s, Erna Hoover

developed a computerized

telephone switching system

that eliminated the danger of

overload in processing calls.

Her work is said to have

revolutionized modern

communication, and it

earned her one of the

first software patents ever

awarded to a woman.

ERNAHOOVER

In 1969, Neil Armstrong made

history when he became the

first person to step foot on

the moon. What many people

don’t know is that ARMSTRONG

WOULDN’T HAVE MADE IT

TO THE MOON WITHOUT

MARGARET HAMILTON.

Hamilton invented the

software that allowed the

computers on Apollo 11 to

prioritize important tasks.

Without that software, it’s

likely that the mission would

have failed.

Ada LovelaceMARGARETHAMILTON

Known by many as “The

Mother of the Internet,”

network engineer Radia

Perlman helped make

ethernet technology

a household name.

She developed

SPANNING TREE PROTOCOLS,

which enabled the scalability

of network traffic using

ethernet.

RADIAPERLMAN

SOPHIEWILSONKnown as the MOTHER OF THE

SMARTPHONE AND TABLET, Wilson

developed some of the world’s first

commercially successful personal

computers and created the original

ARM computer processor, which

later became one of the most

successful IP cores.

By 2012, her design

was found inside

most of the world’s

mobile computers

and smartphones.

It’s about role models. YOU CAN’T BE WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE.

Reshma SaujaniFounder and CEO of Girls Who Code

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