Ages ago I was working with codes, writing error detection and correction, and also writing programs to find the probability of undetected error for a given cod

Ages ago I was working with codes, writing error detection and correction, and also writing programs to find the probability of undetected error for a given code. I wanted to read the literature for myself and write my own code in order to understand what was going on. I was inspired to find some of the very smart people whose methods and books I used, assuming they were men, were in fact women. Jesse MacWilliams worked at Bell Labs and developed the MacWilliams identity (which made my life easier for computing the properties of a cyclic code.) Vera Pless is another that worked in coding theory and authored some classic texts. These are some of the women whose works I relied on and who were inspirational during a formative period in my career, where I was trying to level-up and gain deeper insights.