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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace. She is...
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Dec 10, 1815
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Scientist,
Writer,
Mathematician,
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x Gender:
Female
Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and she developed...
x Date of birth:
Dec 9, 1906
x Profession:
Computer scientist,
Mathematician,
Programmer,
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x Gender:
Female
Henriette Avram

Henriette Avram

Henriette Davidson Avram (October 7, 1919 – April 22, 2006) was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging), which is the national and international data standard for bibliographic and...
x Date of birth:
Oct 7, 1919
x Profession:
Computer scientist,
Librarian
x Gender:
Female
Enid Mumford

Enid Mumford

Enid Mumford (March 6, 1924 - April 7, 2006) was a British computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Manchester University and a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School, largely known for her work on human factors and socio-technical...
x Date of birth:
Mar 6, 1924
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Irma Wyman

Irma M. Wyman (born ~1927) was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. In 1945, Wyman was accepted into the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. It is not known, how large her freshman class was, but...
x Date of birth:
1927
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Jean E. Sammet

Jean E. Sammet

Jean E. Sammet (born 1928) is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and her M.A. in Math from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
x Date of birth:
1928
x Profession:
Scientist,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Charlotte Froese Fischer

Charlotte Froese Fischer

Acad. Prof. Dr. Charlotte Froese Fischer PhD (b. 1929) is a Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist who gained world recognition for the development and implementation of the Multi-configurational Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach...
x Date of birth:
Sep 21, 1929
x Profession:
Physicist,
Chemist,
Mathematician,
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x Gender:
Female
Frances Allen

Frances Allen

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She also had a role in...
x Date of birth:
1932
x Profession:
Engineer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Annie Easley

Annie Easley

Annie J. Easley was born on 23 April 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama. She is an African American computer scientist who worked for the Lewis Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National...
x Date of birth:
Apr 23, 1933
x Profession:
Mathematician,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Gwen Bell

Gwen Bell (born 1934) was the first president of the The Computer Museum in Boston, which she co-founded with her husband Gordon Bell. Career: Degrees:
x Date of birth:
1934
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Karen Spärck Jones

Karen Spärck Jones

Karen Spärck Jones FBA (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a British computer scientist. Karen Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her father was Owen Jones, a lecturer in chemistry, and her mother was Ida Spärck, a Norwegian...
x Date of birth:
Aug 26, 1935
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Lynn Conway

Lynn Conway

Lynn Conway (born 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, trans woman, and activist for the transgender community. Conway is notable for several technical achievements, including the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI...
x Date of birth:
1938
x Profession:
Inventor,
Engineer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Barbara Liskov

Barbara Liskov

Barbara Liskov, (born Barbara Jane Huberman in 1939), is a computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the MIT School of Engineering's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and an Institute Professor at...
x Date of birth:
1939
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Barbara Simons

Barbara Simons

Barbara Simons (born 1941) is a prominent computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s ; she is...
x Date of birth:
1941
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Mary Shaw

Mary Shaw (born 1943) is an American software engineer, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. Shaw's main area of research interest is...
x Date of birth:
1943
x Profession:
Computer scientist,
Software engineer
x Gender:
Female

Adele Goldberg

Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. In the 1970s she worked for Xerox's PARC laboratory on the Xerox Alto. According to Adele, Steve Jobs demanded a...
x Date of birth:
Jul 22, 1945
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Dorothy E. Denning

Dorothy Elizabeth Denning (the daughter of C. Lowell and Helen Watson Robling on August 12, 1945) is an American information security researcher. She has published four books and 140 articles. At Georgetown University, she was the Patricia and...
x Date of birth:
Aug 12, 1945
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Nancy Davis Griffeth

Nancy Davis Griffeth

Dr. Nancy D. Griffeth (born October 26, 1945) is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College of The City University of New York. She did seminal work in defining the feature interaction problem and organizing a community of...
x Date of birth:
Oct 26, 1945
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Nancy Lynch

Nancy Ann Lynch (born 1948) is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT's Computer...
x Date of birth:
1948
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Anita Borg

Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 – April 6, 2003) was an American computer scientist. She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in Palatine, Illinois, Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Mukilteo, Washington. Borg was one of a relatively small...
x Date of birth:
Jan 17, 1949
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman

Radia Joy Perlman (born 1951 in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA) is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, while working for...
x Date of birth:
1951
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Maria Zemankova

Maria Zemankova

Maria Zemankova (born 6 January 1951 ) is a Computer Scientist who is known for the theory and implementation of the first Fuzzy Relational Database System. This research has become important for the handling of approximate queries in databases. She...
x Date of birth:
Jan 6, 1951
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Wendy Hall

Wendy Hall

Dame Wendy Hall DBE, FREng, FBCS, FIET, FCGI (born 25 October 1952) is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Wendy Hall was born in West London. She studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics at the...
x Date of birth:
Oct 25, 1952
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Ursula Martin

Ursula Martin

Ursula Martin (born 1953) is a British computer scientist. She is Vice-Principal of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London and a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science there. Ursula Martin gained an...
x Date of birth:
1953
x Profession:
Journalist,
Computer scientist,
Educator
x Gender:
Female
Amy L. Lansky

Amy L. Lansky

Amy L. Lansky (born 1955), is an American author, computer scientist, and homeopath, noted for having written Impossible Cure: the Promise of Homeopathy. Lansky grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received a B.A. from University of Rochester in 1977...
x Date of birth:
1955
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Éva Tardos

Éva Tardos, mathematician, (born 1957, Hungary) winner of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), professor and chair of Computer Science department at Cornell University. Research Interests: While co-teaching a class with Jon Kleinberg students made anagrams...
x Date of birth:
1957
x Profession:
Mathematician,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Shafi Goldwasser

Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר‎; born 1958) is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Born in New York City, she...
x Date of birth:
1958
x Profession:
Computer scientist,
Cryptographer
x Gender:
Female

Lynne Jolitz

Lynne Greer Jolitz (born June 30, 1961) is an important figure in free software and founded many startups in Silicon Valley with her husband William. Lynne Jolitz is probably most famous for her work in pioneering open source operating systems with...
x Date of birth:
Jun 30, 1961
x Profession:
Programmer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Kim Polese

Kim Polese

Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is CEO of SpikeSource, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. In 1997, she made Time Magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans". She received a BA...
x Date of birth:
Nov 13, 1961
x Profession:
Entrepreneur,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Judith Donath

Judith Donath is a well-known professor at MIT Media Lab, and the founder of the Sociable Media Group. She has written papers on various aspects of the internet and its social impact, such as internet society and community, interfaces, virtual...
x Date of birth:
1962
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Picard

Rosalind W. Picard (born May 17, 1962 in Massachusetts) is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium. In 2005, she was...
x Date of birth:
May 17, 1962
x Profession:
Engineer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Xiaoyun Wang

Wang Xiaoyun (simplified Chinese: 王小云; traditional Chinese: 王小雲; pinyin: Wáng Xiǎoyún) (born 1966) is a researcher and professor in the Department of Mathematics and System Science, Shandong University, Shandong, China. At the rump session of CRYPTO...
x Date of birth:
1966
x Profession:
Computer scientist,
Cryptographer
x Gender:
Female

Dorit Aharonov

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew: דורית אהרונוב‎; born 1970) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing. Aharonov received her doctorate in 1999 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is now a professor at the Department of...
x Date of birth:
1970
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Susan Athey

Susan Carleton Athey (born November 29, 1970) is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. Susan Athey was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew...
x Date of birth:
Nov 29, 1970
x Profession:
Economist,
Mathematician,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka (born c. 1972) is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (U.W.), director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Her research combines neuroscience...
x Date of birth:
1972
x Profession:
Engineer,
Electrical engineer,
Neuroroboticist,
more ▼
x Gender:
Female
Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer (born on 30 May 1975) is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. She acts as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google...
x Date of birth:
May 30, 1975
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Xixi Luo

Xixi Luo

x Date of birth:
Jan 16, 1982
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Joyce K. Reynolds

Joyce K. Reynolds is a computer scientist. Reynolds holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, United States. She has been active in the development of the protocols underlying the Internet. In particular, she...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Sophie Wilson

Sophie Wilson is a British computer scientist. She was educated at Cambridge University. In 1978, she designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd. In 1981, Wilson extended the Acorn Atom's...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. She then went to the University of California at Berkeley as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics. In 1973 she joined the faculty of...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Mathematician,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Ellen Spertus

Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, Oakland, California, United States, and a research scientist at Google. Spertus grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School. At MIT she received...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review titled ...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Susan Dumais

Susan Dumais is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group of Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Dumais was a researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), where she and her colleagues conducted...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Diane Pozefsky

Diane P. Pozefsky earned a Sc.B. Degree in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1972 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at UNC in 1979 under the tutelage of Doctor Mehdi Jazayeri. She joined IBM Corporation, Raleigh, NC,...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper is a programmer, computer scientist, and advocate of open source software. Known as the "Open Source Diva" after stints as an open source community builder at Sun Microsystems, Intel, and REvolution Computing., she is currently...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Programmer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Mary Lee Woods

Mary Lee Woods is a British mathematician who worked in the team that developed the Manchester Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester, England. She is married to Conway Berners-Lee, also in the team. Their son, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, one of...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Mathematician,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Lori McCreary

Lori McCreary is an American motion picture producer and computer scientist. She is co-founder and CEO of the production company Revelations Entertainment, which she co-founded with actor Morgan Freeman. McCreary grew up in Antioch, a small town in...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Susan L. Graham

Susan L. Graham is a computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley Graham's research...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Myra Wilson

Myra Wilson is a lecturer in computer science at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was also a judge on the BBC television program Robot Wars. Subjects covered by Myra include Robotics and Database Theory.
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Jenny Preece

Jenny Preece is the Dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, as of 2006. She researches online communities and is known for her work on what makes such a community successful, and how usability factors interact with...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini (Persian: ريحانه صفوی نائينی ) is the iCORE Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Scientist,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Elizabeth Rather

Elizabeth Rather is the co-founder of FORTH, Inc. and is a leading expert in the Forth programming language. Elizabeth Rather was a colleague of Chuck Moore back when he worked at NRAO in the early 1970s. During his development of Forth, she became...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Programmer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
Margo Seltzer

Margo Seltzer

Margo Ilene Seltzer (b. upstate New York) is a professor and researcher in computer systems. Currently she is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor (full professor) in the School of Engineering and Applied...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Monica S. Lam

Monica Sin-Ling Lam is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, and Founder and Chief Scientist of MokaFive . Monica Lam received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Johanna Moore

Johanna Doris Moore is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist. Her research Interests include natural language generation, spoken dialogue systems, computational models of discourse, intelligent tutoring and training systems, human...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Jeanne Ferrante

Jeanne Ferrante is a computer scientist active in the field of compiler technology, where she has made important contributions regarding optimization and parallelization. She is currently a professor at the University of California San Diego, and...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Engineer,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Amanda Chessell

Amanda (Mandy) Chessell is a computer scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. She has a record of prolific middleware inventiveness and has been awarded the title of IBM Master Inventor. She is also a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology....
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Jeannette Wing

Jeannette M. Wing is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the NSF. She earned her S.B. and S.M. in...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Journalist,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Nancy Leveson

Prof. Nancy G. Leveson is a leading American expert in system and software safety. She is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, United States. Nancy Leveson gained her degrees (in computer science, mathematics and management) from UCLA,...
x Date of birth:
x Profession:
Journalist,
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female

Chrisanthi Avgerou

Chrisanthi Avgerou is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on Information Technology in developing countries. She is currently Professor of Information Systems at the London School of...
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x Profession:
Computer scientist
x Gender:
Female
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