Women in Computing
Profiles of women who contributed to computer science-from algorithms and compilers to cryptography, networking, and artificial intelligence.
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Ada Lovelace
1815Visionary of computing
Grace Hopper
1906Compiler pioneer
Margaret Hamilton
1936Software engineering leader
Katherine Johnson
1918Mathematician at NASA
Barbara Liskov
1939Programming languages and systems
Radia Perlman
1951Mother of the Internet
Karen Spärck Jones
1935Information retrieval pioneer
Frances E. Allen
1932Compiler optimization
Shafi Goldwasser
1958Cryptography and complexity
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
1913Computer science education
Anita Borg
1949Operating systems & equity in computing
Jean E. Sammet
1928Programming languages (COBOL, FORMAC)
Lynn Conway
1938Microarchitecture & VLSI
Evelyn Berezin
1925Real‑time systems & word processing
Betty Holberton
1917ENIAC programming & language standards
Fei‑Fei Li
1976Computer vision, AI democratization
Priya Donti
1993ML for climate and power systems
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