Many women were instrumental in developing Computers and computing, and their recognition is long overdue.
Originally shared by Laura Ess
I'm familiar with Grace Hopper (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper) but hadn't heard bout Hamilton.
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/#slide-1
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK had an interesting set of displays about women in computing when I was there in late 2014. The displays were sponsored by Google and there were a lot of interesting stories. Unfortunately there was no book or pamphlet to act as an external memory so I can no longer remember any names or details. :(
ReplyDeleteI don't see an online counterpart to the displays Stephen Gunnell, but I did find
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and
http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/women-pioneers-computing
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