Frances Allen
American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in optimizing compilers.
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Beatrice Worsley
Pioneering Canadian computer scientist.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Evelyn Boyd Granville was only the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American University. She worked in computing.
Ida Rhodes
Ida Rhodes was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She studied mathematics and had a variety of jobs before joining the Mathematical Tables Project in New York City. She did important work on the development of computers.
Gertrude Blanch
Gertrude Blanch was a Polish born American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
Nicole-Reine Lepaute was a French noblewoman who helped Lalande with astronomical calculations.
Kathleen McNulty Antonelli
Kathleen McNulty Antonelli was an Irish-born American computer programmer who was one of the first to work with the early ENIAC machine.
Jean Jennings Bartik
Jean Bartik was an American mathematician famous as one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician who wrote code for computers before they even existed, making her the first computer programmer