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Where are the technical contributions? A selection of some of the major early contributions in chronological order; first programmer - Ada Lovelace foundatio
by ktizo 14y ago
Where are the technical contributions?
A selection of some of the major early contributions in chronological order;
first programmer - Ada Lovelace
foundational paper for computerized algebra - Grete Hermann
original programmers of the ENIAC - Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman
first compiler written - Grace Hopper
first person to use a computer in a private home & first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer - Mary Allen Wilkes
And all of this was done before Mary Keller became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science, in 1965, and it wasn't until 1989 that IBM had their first female fellow, Frances E. Allen.
If you are claiming to be finding it hard to find technical contributions to computer science by women and that you see no evidence of discrimination, it means you are being willfully blind, at best.
- Produce 14y agoWil van der Aalst – business process management, process mining, Petri nets Hal Abelson – intersection of computing and teaching Serge Abiteboul – database theory Samson Abramsky – game semantics Leonard Adleman – RSA, DNA computing Manindra Agrawal – polynomial-time primality testing Luis von Ahn – human-based computation Alfred Aho – compilers book, the 'a' in AWK Amos Nuwasiima – PHP Programming book Frances E. Allen – compiler optimization Alexander Scaranti – Image Processing, Image Retrieval Gene Amdahl – supercomputer developer, founder of Amdahl Corporation A. Annerl – multidimensional processing, computational complexity theory Andrew Appel – compilers text books Bruce Arden - programming language compilers (GAT, MAD), virtual memory architecture, MTS Sanjeev Arora – PCP theorem (Hahaha. Right, I want to see who came up with Ketamine theorem.) A. E. Hugo - parallel computing on heterogeneous multicore architectures[citation needed] John Vincent Atanasoff – computer pioneer Ali Aydar - computer scientist and CEO of Sporcle Leonard Ayunar - Computer Programming Enthusiast, 1997 - At Present Software Developer That's just surnames beginning with A. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists
- pooriaazimi 14y agoHal (Harold) Abelson is a man :) If you haven't already, shame on you; You should check him & Jerald Jay Sussman's EPIC 1986 SICP course for (I think) HP employees (SICP: Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs). videos are available here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... [EDIT]: I notices that you've apparently listed male computer scientists (it's 5:23am here). But I won't remove my comment as the SICP link might be useful for others.
- ktizo 14y agoI wasn't trying to find a massive list, droithomme asked "where are the technical contributions" by women in computing, not "who has the biggest list". Really, all I needed to write down was Grace Hopper. Compilers being fairly useful in the field.
- Produce 14y agoDid everyone miss the point of that comment? Most of the names on my list are not women.
- ktizo 14y agoI know they are not. I was commenting on that. I assumed that you posted a big list to demonstrate the lack of women in CS. [edit] reading over, I could have been a lot more clear. I should have said "which group" rather than "who"
- emddudley 14y agoI think grandparent poster was referring to blogs and articles on the internet today, not all of computing history.
- ktizo 14y agoUnless the thesis is that women have suddenly got crap at computing, I think that historic references are valid.