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1. Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and a writer, born on December 10th, 1815, in Hucknall, Nottingham, England, to parents Lord and Lady Bryon. She is mainly known for her Mathematics and computing skills, as she notably worked on the general proposed mechanical computer proposed by Charles Babbage, known as the father of computers. She was the first one to discover that the use of machines is beyond just calculations. She introduced the first algorithm for computers, which is why she is known as the World’s First computer programmer.
2. Grace Hopper: Computer Scientist
Born on December 9th, 1906, Grace Hooper was an American Computer Scientist and a rear admiral in the US Navy. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and invented the first linkers. Hopper was the first person to put forward the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language. Her theory was later used for creating COBOL, an early high-level programming language that is still in use.
3. Annie Easley: The NASA Rocket Scientist
Annie Easley was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was a computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. Easley worked at NASA at the Lewis Research centre. Her occupation was a Computer Engineer. She is notably known for her work in NASA and NACA. She was a budding athlete, and became the first President of the NASA Lewis club.
(From left to right; Annie Easley, Mary Wilkes, and Adele Goldberg)
4. Mary Wilkes: The First Home Computer User
Mary Allen Wilkes was born on September 25, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She completed her education at Wellesley College and Harvard Law School. Wilkes is famously known for her work in LINC computers, known as the world’s first personal computer. She is a computer programmer and logic designer.
5. Adele Goldberg: The inspiration of GUI
She was born on July 22, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She completed her education at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. Goldberg is a computer scientist who contributed to developing the programming language Smalltalk-80 and concepts related to OOP(object-oriented programming). She was a researcher in the year 1970 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC).
6. Mary Keller: First to earn a PhD in Computer Science in the US
Mary Kenneth Keller was born on December 17, 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She completed her education at the DePaul University of Wisconsin-Madison. Keller was a Roman Catholic religious sister and an educator and pioneer in Computer science. She is famously known for her participation in the first BASIC kernel for the language.
7. Radia Perlman: The Mother of Internet
Radia Perlman was born on December 18,1951, in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. Perlman is a computer programmer and network engineer, and she completed her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is famously known for her work in network and security protocols and computer books. She has also written a thesis named Network Layer Protocol with Byzantine robustness, and she is also famous for her invention of the spanning tree protocol (STP). She currently works at Dell EMC.
8. Katherine Johnson: The NASA Mathematician
Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA. She played an important role in the Mercury program of NASA. She received many awards and honours throughout her career. Among all awards, the most notable is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She also has a biography named Johnson's Memoir, My Remarkable Journey.
9. Karen Spärck Jones: The Pioneer of Information Science
Karen Spärck Jones was born on August 26, 1935, in Huddersfield, Cambridgeshire. She completed her education at the University of Cambridge. Jones was a Computer Scientist and famously known for her concept of inverse document frequency. She received numerous awards like the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, BCS Lovelace Medal, ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, ACM SIGIR Salton Award, and the American Society for Information Science and Technology's Award of Merit. She also published a thesis on Synonymy and semantic classification.
(From left to right; Katherine Johnson, Karen Spärck Jones, and Elizabeth Feinler)
10. Elizabeth Feinler: The Original Search Engine
Elizabeth J. Feinler was born on March 2, 1931, in Virginia, USA. Feinler completed her education at Purdue University and West Liberty University. She is famously known for running the original ARPANET NIC at SRI. She is an Information scientist.