Wilhelmena Ware
Chief of the Learning Center at the NSA, where she was instrumental in instituting a number of programs, including the implementation of the sign language course.
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Dorothy T Blum
Dorothy Toplitzky Blum significantly changed the way NSA did cryptanalysis, pioneering the use of computers to manipulate and process data automatically.
Hilda Faust Mathieu
Computer network pioneer Hilda Faust Mathieu was an early advocate recognizing network vulnerabilities and one of the driving forces developing security controls for network protection at the NSA.
Dr Thelma Estrin
Pioneering Jewish American computer scientist and engineer and a trailblazer in applying computer technology to healthcare and medical research.
Margaret Hamilton
American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner; director of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s Software Engineering Division, a crucial role in developing onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.
Kateryna Yushchenko
Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.
Frances Allen
American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in optimizing compilers.
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.