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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Built the first digital freely programmable computer, the Z1. Built the first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3 in 1941. [59] The Z3 already used what later became known as Reverse Polish Notation, and it was proven to be Turing-complete in 1998. Produced the world's first commercial computer, the Z4.
First woman to earn a Philosophy doctorate degree. [42] [43] 1732 Laura Bassi: First woman to officially teach at a European university. [44] [45] [46] 1874 Grace Annie Lockhart: First woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree: 1875 Stefania Wolicka-Arnd: First woman to receive a PhD in the modern era. [47] [48] 1891 Juana Miranda
Ginni Rometty becomes the first woman to serve as president and CEO of IBM. [14] Eva Tardos earns the Gödel Prize. [99] Regina Honu founds Soronko Solutions, a software development company in 2012. [151] Carol Reiley is the first woman engineer to be featured on the cover of MAKE magazine. [152] [153]
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.