rejectedprincesses:Happy Ada Lovelace Day!Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women in tech!
rejectedprincesses:Happy Ada Lovelace Day!Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women in tech! A good time to remember a couple of the intellectual women that RP has covered:Mary Sherman Morgan: Helped the US win the space race by inventing a new kind of rocket fuelAnnie Jean Easley: Boundary-smashing engineer, mathematician, and NASA rocket scientistMargaret Hamilton: developed on-board software for the Apollo missions, coined the term “software engineer”Maggie Gee: aviatrix, nuclear physicist, and overachieverKatherine Johnson: One of NASA’s early human computers, and subject of the upcoming Hidden Figures movie (where she’s played by Taraji P. Henson!)”Amazing” Grace Hopper: Invented the compiler. Is an unstoppable badass.Parisa Tabriz: Google’s security expertDame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley: went by a man’s name to build out a massively successful software company; 297 of her first 300 employees were womenAnd it’s worth mentioning that the world’s first programmer, Ada Lovelace herself, is in the RP book. :) -- source link
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