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A great choice! Grace Murray Hopper is an amazing inspiration not only for women but computer scientists in general.

• Semiapies 10y ago
  I do continue to shake my head how people push Ada Lovelace, someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago, as the symbol of women-working-with-computers, when the _actual field_ has figures like Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton.
  • denzil_correa 10y ago
    > how people push Ada Lovelace, someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago, as the symbol of women-working-with-computers I've rarely seen anyone champion Ada as a symbol of "Women working with computers".
    • justin66 10y ago
      I'm pretty sure there's a poster of her at my local Microcenter, alongside the likes of Dan Bricklin.
      • Semiapies 10y ago
        Yes. She's the single aspirational figure people push, most of the time, and it's a bit ridiculous.
  • coolgeek 10y ago
    > someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago She didn't just write a paper. Her place in history is at least as well earned - I personally think moreso - as Babbage's. "When Ada wrote about Babbage’s machine, she wanted to explain what it did in the clearest way—and to do this she looked at the machine more abstractly, with the result that she ended up exploring and articulating something quite recognizable as the modern notion of universal computation." She did so 100 years before Turing. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/ http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-o...