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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]
Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn a degree in electrical engineering and who worked as the first professionally employed electrical engineer in the United States. [41] She was hired by General Electric as a full engineer in 1923. [41] Clarke also filed a patent in 1921 for a graphical calculator to be used in solving problems in power ...
The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees.
The very first time a stored-program computer held a piece of software in electronic memory and executed it successfully, was 11 am 21 June 1948, at the University of Manchester, on the Manchester Baby computer. It was written by Tom Kilburn, and calculated the highest factor of the integer 2^18 = 262,144. Starting with a large trial divisor ...
Designed the software of the first transistor-based computer. Also influenced the ALGOL programming language. 1975, 1985 Rubin, Philip: Developed pioneering computational speech synthesis systems for use in the experimental study of speech perception and production, including articulatory synthesis and sinewave synthesis.
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 ...
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 ...
Evelyn Berezin was an American computer designer who was responsible for the creation of the first airline reservation systems [2] in addition to the original word processor [3] and lived from April 12th 1925 to December 8th of 2018.