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Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science.She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States.
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 ...
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]
The following is a list of PC games that have been deemed monetarily free by their creator or copyright holder. This includes free-to-play games, even if they include monetized micro transactions. List
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]
American Lael Wilcox has broken the world record for the fastest woman to cycle around the world, traversing 21 countries and 18,125 miles in three and a half months.. Arriving back in Chicago at ...
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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]