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[174] [176] A conference for women in computer-related jobs, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, was first launched in 1994 by Anita Borg. [ 147 ] Game designer Brenda Laurel started working at Interval Research in 1992, and began to think about the differences in the way girls and boys experienced playing video games. [ 177 ]
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01310-9. Marx, Christy (2003). Grace Hopper: the first woman to program the first computer in the United States. Women hall of famers in mathematics and science. New York: Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8239-3877-3. Norman, Rebecca ...
The game was considered revolutionary for its pseudo-3D elements, [17] becoming the first adventure game to allow the player character to move in front of, behind, or over other objects on the screen. [8] [12] It was also the first computer game to support the 16-color EGA standard, [12] setting a new standard for future graphic adventure games ...
Her first game was River Raid (1982) for the Atari 2600, which was inspired by the 1981 arcade game Scramble. [2] The game was a major hit for Activision and personally lucrative for Shaw. [2] Shaw also wrote Happy Trails (1983) for the Intellivision and ported River Raid to the Atari 8-bit computers and Atari 5200. [9] She left Activision in 1984.
Dona Bailey. Dona Bailey - American game programmer who, along with Ed Logg in 1981, created the arcade video game Centipede. [4] [5]Laura Bailey - American voice actress.; Ellen Beeman - American fantasy and science fiction author, cofounder the industry group Women in Games International, and computer game designer/producer since the 1990s. [6]
Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science.She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States.
Mabel Addis of The Sumerian Game (1964) was the first writer of a video game and first female game designer. [126] Carol Shaw is recognized as the first woman to develop a commercially released game, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe for the Atari 2600 in 1978, though she would gain later fame with her title River Raid in 1983.
Pixelles hosts their first game-programming incubator in Montreal. [149] Computer scientist, Muffy Calder, starts as the Chief Scientific Advisor for the Scottish Government. [150] Ginni Rometty becomes the first woman to serve as president and CEO of IBM. [14] Eva Tardos earns the Gödel Prize. [99]