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Ada Lovelace was the first person to publish an algorithm intended to be executed by the first modern computer, the Analytical Engine created by Charles Babbage. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer. [9] [10] [11] Lovelace was introduced to Babbage's difference engine when she was 17. [12]
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [1] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was ...
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020) [2] [3] was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. [4] [5] [6] Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. [7]
Pixelles hosts their first game-programming incubator in Montreal. [149] Computer scientist, Muffy Calder, starts as the Chief Scientific Advisor for the Scottish Government. [150] Ginni Rometty becomes the first woman to serve as president and CEO of IBM. [14] Eva Tardos earns the Gödel Prize. [99]
The first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by Bill English from Engelbart's sketches [1]. Early dynamic information devices such as radar displays, where input devices were used for direct control of computer-created data, set the basis for later improvements of graphical interfaces. [2]
Mabel Addis of The Sumerian Game (1964) was the first writer of a video game and first female game designer. [126] Carol Shaw is recognized as the first woman to develop a commercially released game, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe for the Atari 2600 in 1978, though she would gain later fame with her title River Raid in 1983.
First woman to successfully climb K2 Wanda Rutkiewicz ( Polish pronunciation: [/ˈvanda rutˈkʲevitʂ/] 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. [ 1 ] She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest .