@tante Margaret Hamilton *duckundweg*

@tante Grace Hopper

@tante 👏!!!

@tante

"ooh ooh grace ho-"

@tante @janl “it looks”

@tante

Ada Lovelaces contribution is massively overrated: see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_contribution

How about Margaret Hamilton?

@tante I’d nominate Mary Allen Wilkes, who (among other things) invented the compile-link model that pretty much all modern ahead of time compilers use.

@tante
Well, there is "Ma Cobol"...
(Admiral Grace Hopper)
[Male supremacy works by simple ignorancy]
{Unfortunately, you cannot escape this that easy}

@maxxaine

@tante @alda I feel like Sophie Wilson deserves a bit more respect

@tante

What about Linda?

@tante

I get the same feeling when people only mention Hedy Lamarr's development of frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology, perhaps because that technique has some connection to their daily experience of using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

@tante
Vera Rubin! (astronomer studying galaxies)
Nancy Grace Roman! (scientist, program manager for Hubble telescope)
Mary Jackson! (NASA mathematician and engineer)
Marian Croak! (developed a lot of internet protocols)
May Jemison! (astronaut)

@tante not mentioned yet: Kathleen Booth (co-inventor of assembly language, later did stuff in early neural networks - gloriously last published article is on using NNs to identify marine mammals).

@tante Grace Hopper does not count

@tante there are three women Turing Awardees: Allen, Liskov and Goldwasser.

@tante Shafi Goldwasser

@tante Can't believe no one has mentioned Kathleen Antonelli - it's only #StPatricksDay!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli

@tante Good point..

@tante we have conference rooms at work named after people in tech so of course we have a Lovelace room. Some well meaning but terribly misguided man suggested naming a new room after Dr. Blasey Ford since that was going on at the time and that was a real what the fuck are we doing here moment for me.

@tante At least we know gave TWO women in science with Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie

@tante Hedy Lamarr

@tante @dlx My personal Mount Rushmore is Ada Lovelace, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Hopper, and Margaret Hamilton. But your toot made me realize I don’t have a recent hero on that list, so it’s a good reminder to also stay current and not settle.

@tante Kathleen Booth, who wrote the first assembly language.