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Ada Lovelace was the first person to publish an algorithm intended to be executed by the first modern computer, the Analytical Engine created by Charles Babbage. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer. [9] [10] [11] Lovelace was introduced to Babbage's difference engine when she was 17. [12]
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
To celebrate Black History month, Engadget is running a series of profiles honoring African American pioneers in the world of science and technology. Today we take a look at the life and work of ...
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]
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [ 1 ] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [ 1 ]