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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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