Cecilia Berdichevsky was a mathematician who played a major role in developing work with the first computer to be installed in Argentina in 1961. This work ended in 1966 with the coup which caused many academics to leave Argentina. She remained in the country taking on numerous accounting and IT roles.
Rebeca Guber was one of the first Argentinian women mathematicians. She played a major role in the development of computing in Argentina. She also made important contributions to education particularly teaching science in schools.
Mary Tsingou Menzel is an American computer programmer who worked her whole career at the Los Alamos Laboratory. She programmed the first ‘mathematical experiments’ on a computer and was the first to implement a computer graphics program.
Defence electronics engineer
Acoustic and electronics engineer and technical educator.
Women’s Engineering Society president and pioneering computer engineer.
Kathleen Booth was a computing pioneer, who helped with the crystallography analysis that contributed to the DNA structure, was a co-designer of one of the first 3 operational computers in the world, and author of 2 of the earliest books on computer design and programming.
Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.