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DEV DIVASHistory’s Heroines of Computing
– Vesna Kovach @dev_divas
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b. 1914 Austria-Hungary
HEDWIGEVA MARIE KIESLER
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Lobby card for film “Extase” (“Ecstasy”), 1933
HEDWIGEVA MARIE KIESLER
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HEDWIG’S SAYING:
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
Hedwig Kiesler
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- “One of the most sinister figures of the Western Hemisphere” (Milwaukee Journal, 1945)
- Fascist- Owned armaments factory- Partied w/ Hitler, Mussolini
1ST HUSBAND, FRIEDRICH MANDL (1933-7)
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Invented frequency hopping/ spread-spectrum technology.Patented 1942.
1997: EFF Pioneer Award2014: National Inventors Hall of Fame
HEDY LAMARR
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Not used until 1960sUsed in - Wi-Fi- Bluetooth- CDMA
“H. K. Markey” = Hedwig Kiesler Markey (her second husband was Gene Markey).“et al” refers to collaborator George Antheil.
HEDY LAMARR
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MACINTOSH TEAM
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- Graphical interface pioneer- Icons: trash can, Happy Mac,
paint brush, paint bucket, “cut” scissors, “Command,” etc. etc. etc.
- Mac fonts: Chicago (for menus), Geneva
- Windows control panel elements, app icons
SUSAN KARE
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- “[w]hat computers should look like and how they should improve people's lives.”
- Drafted the Mac’s “User Interface Guidelines.”
- Original teams: Macintosh, NeXT
- Played by Kate Winslet in “Steve Jobs,” 2015
JOANNA HOFFMAN
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- Macintosh original team.
1 Beyond (custom video production equipment) VP of technology since 1997.
RONY SEBOK
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- Xerox PARC team leader- Smalltalk System (GUI)- Showed Steve Jobs the
system, only under protest …- Smalltalk, Dynabook- Design “templates” (patterns) - ACM president, fellow- PC Mag Lifetime Achievement- Women in Technology Hall of
Fame, 2010
ADELE GOLDBERG
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MACINTOSH TEAM1984Photo by Norman Seeff for Rolling Stone.
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“MACINTOSH TEAM”2013Hollywood versionFrom the motion picture “Jobs”
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Planet Money, Oct. 2014, When Women Stopped Coding http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
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• NACA computer, 1953• NACA became NASA, 1958• 1960, first Flight Research
Div. paper credit for a woman
• “Ran the numbers” for John Glenn, first American in orbit, 1962
• Played by Taraji P. Henson
KATHERINE JOHNSON
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• Retired 1986• Now 98 years old• Katherine G. Johnson
Computational Research Facility
• Presidential Medal of Honor, 2015
• In new “Women of NASA” Lego series
KATHERINE JOHNSON
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NACA computer 1951NASA’s first black female aeronautical engineer, 1958Wind tunnel specialistNASA Federal Women’s Program Manager, 1979-85.Portrayed by Janelle Monáe
MARY JACKSON
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NASA 1965-2003Data analyst, programmerTechnical leader, Sonic Boom Research ProgramDeputy Manager, TU-144Experiments ProgramAir traffic management, wing design
CHRISTINE DARDEN
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NACA computer 1943NASA’s first African-American manager, 1949-58FORTRAN programmerPortrayed by Octavia SpencerRetired from NASA, 1971
DOROTHY VAUGHAN
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HARVARD COMPUTERS, 1875-1952Spectral photometryStar classificationCepheid period-luminosity relationBinary eclipsing stars
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ARMY COMPUTERS, WWI Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, 1918
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Calculating WWI Vet benefits, early1920s
COMPUTERS OF THE VETERANS BUREAU
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COMPUTERS OF NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.Managed by Caltech.Read: Rise of the Rocket Girls, 2016
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- Well-defined series of steps- Inputs with preconditions (Ex:
must be positive numbers)- Finite- Yields correct result
ALGORITHM
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With manometer tape.NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
DORIS BARON
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Planetary scientist at Caltech and JPLNASA Exceptional Service MedalPlanet Glo named after herUSS Helin (NCC-1692)
ELEANOR “GLO” HELIN
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• JPL, since 1958• Longest-serving female at
NASA• Wrote software for:
• Deep Space Network
• All Mars missions
• Juno and Pioneer (Jupiter)
• Moon, Venus, etc.
• Voyager (Solar System +)
• Demoted in 2004, when B.A. degree became mandatory.
SUE FINLEY
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• Producer, co-writer, Cosmos (1980)
• Writer, producer, creator, Cosmos (2014)
• Creative Director NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project
• Collaborated with Carl Sagan, her husband
ANN DRUYAN
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COMPUTERS OF JPL, 1943-TODAY Jet Propulsion Laboratory,NASAcirca 1955
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• WPA Mathematical Tables Project: “The Handbook of Mathematical Functions”
• The single most widely circulated scientific work, ever
• Oversaw Manhattan Project calculations
• Institute for Numerical Analysis
GERTRUDE BLANCH
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Director, supervisor of computer teams for Apollo and Skylab space flight programs.
MARGARET HAMILTON
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With printout of Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) source code.
Director, supervisor of computer teams for Apollo and Skylab space flights programs.
MARGARET HAMILTON
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With printout of Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) source code.
Director, supervisor of computer teams for Apollo and Skylab space flights programs.
MARGARET HAMILTON
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- First Ph.D. in computer science (one of two, 6/7/1965))
- Contributor to BASIC- Founded first CS department
at a small college
SISTER MARY KENNETH KELLER
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- Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research
- Ran Comp. & Engineering Science Directorate, NSF
- Chaired Carnegie Mellon University Comp. Science Dept.
JEANNETTE WING
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BARBARALISKOV
• “Liskov Substitution Principle”• MIT Comp. Science & AI Lab• 2008 Turing Award
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BASIC PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENTSingle responsibility Open-closedLiskov substitutionInterface segregationDependency inversion
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JEAN SAMMET- IBM, 1961
President, Association of Computing Machinery, 1974-9
- Language creator and historian
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Pioneering software engineerSociety of Women Engineers Achievement Award, 2001“We were on the forefront, working day and night, inventing as we went.”
JUDY CLAPP
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JUDY CLAPP- MIT’s Whirlwind, the first
real-time computer- SAGE air defense system- ADA programming language
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- Harvard, 25 years- A first UNIVAC programmer- Wrote first report generator- Early sort routines- Graphics algorithms- Databases- “We did not have huge
management teams. We did incredibly new and exciting things and nobody had a problem.”
ADELE MILDRED “MILLY” KOSS
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- Mathematics professor, Vassar
- Programmer, computer scientist, 1944-92
REAR ADMIRAL GRACE MURRAY HOPPER
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• Invented the compiler• Made COBOL happen• Association for Computing
Machinery Nomenclature Committee Chair
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER
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• Invented the compiler• Made COBOL happen• Association for Computing
Machinery Nomenclature Committee Chair
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER
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HARVARD MARK I- Electromechanical- Used punched paper tape- First general-purpose,
programmable device in use.
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HARVARD COMPUTATION LAB, 1946
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- Ph.D. in Math, Yale- Vassar professor, 16 years- First officer, Mark I team- Led Harvard Computing
Symposium
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER
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HARVARD COMPUTERS, 1875-1952Spectral photometryStar classificationCepheid period-luminosity relationBinary eclipsing stars
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HARVARD COMPUTATION LAB, 1946
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- ENIAC programmer- Invented flowchart- First sorting routine- First computer language,
BINAC- First keyboard input system- Gray computer color- COBOL contributor- FORTRAN contributor- National Bureau of Standards- Chief Programmer, ship test
facilities
BETTY SNYDER HOLBERTON
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Kathleen McNultyFrances Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Elizabeth Snyder Holberton, Ruth Lichterman, and Marilyn Wescoff
THE “ENIAC WOMEN”
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Kathleen McNultyFrances Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Elizabeth Snyder Holberton, Ruth Lichterman, and Marilyn Wescoff
Shown: Jean Jennings Bartik and Fran Bilas
THE “ENIAC WOMEN”
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THE “ENIAC WOMEN”Kathleen McNultyFrances Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Elizabeth Snyder Holberton, Ruth Lichterman, and Marilyn Wescoff
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From ENIAC in Action by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, Crispin Rope
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AUGUSTA ADA BYRON KING, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE
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- “Many discrepancies occurred…I exclaimed, ’I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!’”
CHARLES BABBAGE
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BERNOULLI NUMBERS
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LORD AND LADY BYRON, AND THEIR DAUGHTER, ADA
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Age 17, the year she met Babbage.
AUGUSTA ADA BYRON
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The word “scientist” coined to describe her:- Mathematician- Astronomer- Molecular scientist- Geographer- Published, translated
MARY SOMERVILLE
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- Astronomer- Mathematician- Scientific Academy of Béziers,
member- Mapped 1764 solar eclipse
at 15-minute intervals
- Asteroid: “7720 Lepaute”- Lunar crater: “Lepaute”
NICOLE-REINE ETABLE DE LA BRIÈRE LEPAUTE
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JÉRÔME LALANDE, NICOLE-REINE LEPAUTE& ALEXIS CLAIRAULT
Proved Edmund Halley correct: Halley’s Comet is a single objectCalculated return of the comet within 1 month (1759).
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JÉRÔME LALANDE & ALEXIS CLAIRAULTProved Edmund Halley correct: Halley’s Comet is a single objectCalculated return of the comet within 1 month. (1759)
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“Twenty years ago, if [a woman] was really ambitious, she could go into the professions and compete with men…usually working harder and longer to earn less pay for the same job.
“Now have come the big, dazzling computers and a whole new line of work for women: programming. Telling the miracle machines what to do and how to do it.
“And if it doesn’t sound like women’s work—well, it just is.”
Lois Mandel, The Computer Girls, Cosmopolitan, April 1967
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“THIS IS THE AGE OF THE COMPUTER GIRLS. THERE ARE 20,000 IN THE U.S.”
“Aptitude: the one most important quality a girl needs to be a programmer. She also needs a keen, logical mind.”
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The story of how a single language answers the question, “Can a young girl with no previous programming experience find happiness handling both commercial and scientific applications, without resorting to an assembler language?”
Let’s face it. The cost of programming just keeps going up.
IBM Corporation, 1968
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William M. Cannon and DallisK. Perry, “A Vocational Interest Scale for Computer Programmers”
– Proceedings of the Fourth SIGCPR Conference on Computer Personnel Research (Los Angeles: Association for Computing Machinery, 1966), 61-62
Figure 2: Programmers are crazy about puzzles, tend to like research applications and risk-taking, and don’t like people.
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Datamation magazine, 1963
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- Harvard Mark I programmer, 1944
- Invented the compiler- Responsible for COBOL- Championed women and
minorities in computing
REAR ADMIRAL GRACE MURRAY HOPPER
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• IBM, 1964-68• Fired because transgender• Started over in “stealth
mode”• XEROX Palo Alto Research
Center• DARPA, DoD• Microchip architecture
LYNN CONWAY
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- Invented Spanning Tree- 100 patents- TORTIS (LOGO for kids)- 2x Data Communications
mag’s 20 Most Influential People in the Industry
- “Mother of the Internet”
RADIA PERLMAN
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Sierra On-LineInvented graphic adventure game- King’s Quest- Mystery House- Phantasmagoria- Leisure Suit Larry
ROBERTA WILLIAMS
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- Electrical engineer- Co-built WEIZAC, first in
Israel- Medical informatics pioneer- First female IEEE vice
president
THELMA ESTRIN
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History’s first known female mathematician, astronomer, philosophercirca 350-415 C.E.
HYPATIA
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RECOMMENDED READING & VIEWING
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & BabbageSydney PaduaFantastic graphic novel and webcomic
When Computers Were HumanDavid Alan Grier
Grace Hopper interview on David Lettermanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
Authors@Google: Kurt Beyerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6Hk8_eiKsGreat talk by the author of Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
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INITIATIVES, ALLIES & GATHERINGSPHP Women
Tech Inclusion Conference
Anita Borg Institute
Grace Hopper Celebration
BlackGirlsCode
Code For Progress
Girls Who Code
Model View Culture
Finding Ada
Code Liberation
The Mary Sue
Systers
Alterconf
Ada Lovelace Day
GeekGirlTechCon.com
Women and Tech
Women’s Coding Collective
Girls In Tech
YWeb Academy (Madison)
Ladies Learning Code
IEEE Women in Engineering
GirlDevelopIt
“Born With Curiosity” Grace Hopper film project
“The Computers” film
“Code” film
Men In Tech
“Ada. Ada. Ada.” show
Links at DevDivas.com
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ABOUT MEVesna Vuynovich Kovach runs DevDivas.com, a website celebrating the rich history of women in technology.
She is part of the agile PHP development team that powers OfficeSupply.com, an ecommerce store headquartered in Columbus, Wisconsin.
She tweets at @Vesna_V_K.