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Women in computer science
Ada Lovelace
Anita Borg
Co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference.
Barbara Liskov
A.M. Turing Award Laureate
Betty Jean Bartik
Carla Meninsky
Video game designer and programmer
Carol Shaw
Video game designer
Chieko Asakawa
Inventor of the Home Page Reader
Dorothy Vaughan
Erna Schneider Hoover
Inventor of the stored program control
Evelyn Boyd Granville
The second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Frances Elizabeth Allen
A.M. Turing Award Laureate
Frances Elizabeth Holberton
Frances Spence
Grace Hopper
Developed FLOW-MATIC, the first computer program written in plain English.
Hedy Lamarr
Invented the Frequency Hopping Communication System.
Karen Spärck Jones
Developed information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP).
Katherine Johnson
Kay Mauchly Antonelli
Margaret Hamilton
Coined the term "software engineering"
Marian Rogers Croak
Pioneer in the advancement of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
Marissa Mayer
Gmail and Google Maps
Marlyn Meltzer
Mary Jackson
Mary Kenneth Keller
First woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in computer science.
Mary Lou Jepsen
Inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware.
Radia Perlman
Designed the spanning tree algorithm.
Roberta Williams
Video game designer
Ruth Teitelbaum
Shafi Goldwasser
A.M. Turing Award Laureate
Sophie Wilson
Developed the ARM processor core.
Susan Kare
User interface guru.
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