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Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley founded the UK software company F.I. She was concerned with creating work opportunities for women with dependents, and predominantly employed women, only 3 out of 300-odd programmers were male, until that became illegal. She adopted the name "Steve" to help her in the male-dominated business world.
In 2013, a National Public Radio report said 20% of computer programmers in the US are female. [223] [224] There is no general consensus for any key reason there are less women in computing. In 2017, an engineer was fired from Google after claiming there was a biological reason for a lack of female computer scientists. [209]
Led team that defined a simple text file format for Internet host names, which became the Domain Name System; her group became the naming authority for the top-level domains of .mil, .gov, .edu, .org, and .com 1943 Flowers, Tommy: Designed and built the Mark I Colossus computer, the world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices
History of computer companies. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. * Computer companies by year of establishment (95 C)
Exited the computer business before being acquired by Ford Motor Company: Philips — Netherlands: 1953: 1991: Sold computer division to Digital Equipment Corporation [8] PolyMorphic Systems — United States: 1976: Unknown: Unknown: Poqet Computer Corporation — United States: 1989: 1992: Acquired by Fujitsu [9] Power Computing ...
This is a list of software and information technology companies that are in the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. companies by revenue in the year of 2024. Company Type
The list includes companies whose primary business activities are associated with the technology industry, which includes computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, telecom equipment, e-commerce and computer services. Note: This list shows only companies with annual revenues exceeding US$50 billion.
By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops. That percentage grew to 32% in 1996, 50% in 2000, 80% in 2007 and 94% in 2011. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Taiwanese ODMs have since lost some market share to Chinese ODMs, but still manufactured 82.3% of the world's laptops in Q2 of 2019, according to IDC.