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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.
In 1981, Deborah Washington Brown became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University (at the time the degree was part of the applied mathematics program). [136] Her thesis was titled "The solution of difference equations describing array manipulation in program loops". [137]
List of computer science awards; List of computer scientists; List of Internet pioneers; List of people considered father or mother of a field § Computing; The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010 book) List of Russian IT developers; List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees; Timeline of computing; Turing Award; Women in ...
Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist.She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program.
Rosemary Joyce (born 1956), American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history; Renata Kallosh (born 1943), Russian-born American theoretical physicist, educator; Dina Katabi (born 1970), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT; Cynthia Keppel, nuclear physicist
Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023), American mathematician, second African-American woman to get a PhD in mathematics; Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician; Barbara J. Grosz (born 1948), American computer scientist; 1993 President of the AAAI; Milly Koss (1928–2012), American computing pioneer
Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist.. In the 1960s, while working at IBM, Conway invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advancement used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance.
Reshma Saujani (born November 18, 1975) is an American lawyer, politician, civil servant, and the founder of the nonprofit organization "Girls Who Code", which aims to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment difference in that field.