Timeline of women in computing

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Women pioneers in computing. Clockwise from top left: Ada Lovelace, Betty Holberton, Radia Perlman, Audrey Tang, Gladys West, Katherine Johnson.

This is a timeline of women in computing. It covers the time when women worked as "human computers" and then as programmers of physical computers. Eventually, women programmers went on to write software, develop Internet technologies and other types of programming. Women have also been involved in computer science, various related types of engineering and computer hardware.

18th century

1757

  • FranceNicole-Reine Etable de la Brière Lepaute worked on a team of human computers to determine the next visit of Halley's Comet.[1][2] The methods they developed have been used by successive human computing teams.[3]

19th century

1842

1849

  • United StatesMaria Mitchell is hired by the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office to work as a computer on tables for the planet Venus.[6]

1875

  • United StatesAnna Winlock joined the Harvard computers, a group of women engaged in the production of astronomical data at Harvard.[7]

1893

20th century

1916

  • United KingdomBeatrice Cave-Brown-Cave went to work as a human computer for the Ministry of Munitions.[9]

1918

1920

1921

  • United StatesEdith Clarke files a patent for a graphical calculator for problem solving electric power-line transmission problems.[14]

1926

  • GermanyGrete Hermann published the foundational paper for computerized algebra. It was her doctoral thesis, titled "The Question of Finitely Many Steps in Polynomial Ideal Theory", and published in Mathematische Annalen.[15]

1935

1939

  • AustriaThe Austrian Johanna Piesch published two pioneering papers on switching algebra.[17]

1940

  • United StatesAmerican women were recruited to do ballistics calculations and program computers during WWII. Around 1943–1945, these women "computers" used a differential analyzer in the basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering to speed up their calculations, though the machine required a mechanic to be totally accurate and the women often rechecked the calculations by hand.[18] Phyllis Fox ran a differential analyzer single-handedly, with differential equations as her program specification.

1941

1942

1943

Jean Bartik and Frances Spence setting up the ENIAC.
Jean Bartik and Frances Spence setting up the ENIAC

1945

1946

1947

  • United StatesIrma Wyman worked on a missile guidance project at the Willow Run Research Center. To calculate trajectory, they used mechanical calculators. In 1947–48, she visited the U.S. Naval Proving Ground where Grace Hopper was working on similar problems and discovered they were using a prototype of a programmable Mark II computer.[29]

1948

1949

  • United StatesGrace Hopper, was a United States Navy officer and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I, known as the "Mother of COBOL". She developed the first compiler for an electronic computer, known as A-0. She also popularized the term "debugging" – a reference to a moth extracted from a relay in the Harvard Mark II computer.[31]
  • United StatesEvelyn Boyd Granville was the second African-American woman in the U.S. to receive a PhD in mathematics. From 1956 to 1960, she worked for IBM on the Project Vanguard and Project Mercury space programs, analyzing orbits and developing computer procedures.[32]
  • CanadaOn 6 May, the EDSAC performs its first calculations using a program written by Beatrice Worsely.[33]

1950

Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley
  • United StatesIda Rhodes was one of the pioneers in the analysis of systems of programming. She co-designed the C-10 language in the early 1950s for the UNIVAC I – a computer system that was used to calculate the census.[34]
  • United KingdomKathleen Booth creates Assembly Language.[35]

1951

1952

  • United KingdomMary Coombs was one of the first programmers on, and was the first female programmer on LEO, the first business computer. She went on to work on LEO II and LEO III.[37]
  • HungaryHungarian-born Klara Dan von Neumann pioneers the programming of MANIAC I.[38]
  • CanadaCanadian, Beatrice Worsley, completes her doctorate in computer science, becoming the first woman to earn that degree.[39]

1954

1955

1958

  • United StatesOrbital calculations for the United States' Explorer 1 satellite were solved by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's all-female "computers", many of whom were recruited out of high school. Mechanical calculators were supplemented with logarithmic calculations performed by hand.[43][44]
  • United StatesGrace Hopper designs the computer language, FLOWMATIC.[21]
  • United States5 May, Langley desegregates, closing down the West Area Computers.[45]
  • United KingdomKathleen Booth publishes a book about programming APE(X)C computers.[46]

1959

  • United StatesMary K. Hawes convenes a meeting to discuss specifications for a business programming language.[14] This would lead to the creation of COBOL.[14]

1961

1962

  • United StatesJean E. Sammet developed the FORMAC programming language. She was also the first to write extensively about the history and categorization of programming languages in 1969, and became the first female president of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1974.[48]
  • United KingdomDame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley founded the UK software company F.I. She was concerned with creating work opportunities for women with dependents, and predominantly employed women, only 3 out of 300-odd programmers were male, until that became illegal. She adopted the name "Steve" to help her in the male-dominated business world. From 1989 to 1990, she was president of the British Computer Society. In 1985, she was awarded a Recognition of Information Technology Award.[49]

1964

1965

  • United StatesMary Allen Wilkes was the first person to use a computer in a private home (in 1965) and the first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer (LINC).[52]
  • United StatesSister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1965.[53] Her thesis was titled "Inductive Inference on Computer Generated Patterns".[54]

1966

1968

  • FranceVera Molnár is one of the pioneers of computer and algorithmic arts. In 1968 she began working with computers, where she began to create algorithmic drawings based on simple geometric shapes geometrical themes.

1969

  • United StatesJean E.Sammet publishes Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, which was the standard in the field at the time.[56]
  • United StatesMargaret Hamilton was in late 1960s Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. MIT work prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 Moon landing by using robust architecture[1]. Later, she was awarded the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award for her scientific and technical contributions.[57][58][59]
  • United StatesAlexandra Illmer Forsythe is a co-author of the first computer science textbook, Computer Science: A First Course (Wiley & Sons).[14]

1970

1971

  • United StatesErna Schneider Hoover is an American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method which developed modern communication according to several reports.[61] At Bell Laboratories, where she worked for over 32 years, Hoover was described as an important pioneer for women in the field of computer technology.[62]
  • United StatesMargaret Burnett became the first woman software developer ever hired by Procter & Gamble/Ivorydale, a 13,000-employee complex that included their R&D center. Her position as a software developer also made her the first woman ever hired into a management-level position there.

1972

1973

  • United StatesSusan Nycum co-authored Computer Abuse, a minor classic that was one of the first studies to define and document computer-related crime.[67][68]
  • United StatesPhyllis Fox worked on the PORT portable mathematical/numerical library.[69]

1974

  • United StatesElizabeth Feinler and her team defined a simple text file format for Internet host names.[70] The list evolved into the Domain Name System and her group became the naming authority for the top-level domains of .mil, .gov, .edu, .org, and .com.

1975

1976

  • HungaryRózsa Péter publishes Recursive Functions in Computer Theory, a topic she had been working on since the 1950s.[14]

1978

1979

  • United StatesLynn Conway co-authored Introduction to VLSI Systems, a bestselling very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design textbook that triggered the Mead and Conway revolution in integrated circuit design.
  • United StatesPatricia Selinger was one of the key architects of IBM System R, and in 1979 wrote the canonical paper on relational query optimization. She was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1994, and an ACM Fellow in 2009.
  • United StatesCarol Shaw was a game designer and programmer for Atari Corp. and Activision.[78]
  • United StatesRuzena Bajcsy founds the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) lab at the University of Pennsylvania.[79]
  • IndiaPriti Shankar does work with generalizing the Bose Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BHC) codes for error-correcting.[80]

1980

  • United StatesCarla Meninsky was the game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games Star Raiders and Warlords.[81]
  • United StatesGwen Bell starts the Computer Museum to preserve artifacts of computer history.[82]
  • United StatesRuth M. Davis founds Pymatuning Group in Virginia.[83]

1982

1983

  • United StatesJanese Swanson (with others) developed the first of the Carmen Sandiego games. She went on to found Girl Tech. Girl Tech develops products and services that encourage girls to use new technologies, such as the Internet and video games.[86]

1984

  • United StatesRoberta Williams did pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the King's Quest series.[87]
  • United StatesSusan Kare created the icons and many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s,[88] and was an original employee of NeXT, working as the Creative Director.[89]
  • United StatesEleanor K. Baum becomes the first woman in the United States to be named dean of an engineering college.[90]

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

  • United StatesFrances E. Allen became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2006, she became the first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award.[100]
  • NetherlandsFrances Brazier, professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, is one of the founder of NLnet, the first Internet service provider in the Netherlands.[101]

1990

  • United StatesRuzena Bajcsy becomes the first woman to chair the computer and information science department at the University of Pennsylvania.[79]

1992

  • United StatesDonna Dubinsky CEO and co-founder of Palm, Inc., co-founder of Handspring, co-founder of Numenta, Harvard Business School's Alumni Achievement Award winner for "introducing the first successful personal digital assistant (PDA) and who is now developing a computer memory system modeled after the human brain".[102]
  • United StatesNancy Rhine and Ellen Pack co-found the first online space targeting women, Women's WIRE.[103][104]
  • United StatesCarol Bartz becomes the CEO of Autodesk.[105]

1993

1994

1995

1996

  • United StatesXiaoyuan Tu was the first female recipient of ACM's Doctoral Dissertation Award.[113]

1997

  • United StatesAnita Borg, was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT), renamed Anita Borg Institute (ABI) in her honor in 2003.[114]
  • JapanJapanese-born Chieko Asakawa develops the IBM Home Page Reader opening up Web resources to the blind.[115]
  • RussiaNatalya Kaspersky co-founds and heads the highly successful antivirus software company Kaspersky Lab.[116]
  • United StatesPortugalManuela Veloso is awarded the CMU Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research.[14]

1998

1999

  • LinuxChix, an international organization for women who use Linux and women and men who want to support women in computing, was founded by Deb Richardson.[118]
  • ChinaLixia Zhang coined the term, "middlebox".[119]
  • United StatesCarly Fiorina starts as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.[14]
  • ChinaSun Yafeng starts as the chair of Huawei Technologies Board.[14]

21st century

Computer scientist Montse Maritxalar of the University of the Basque Country in 2008

2000

2001

  • JapanNoriko H. Arai started developing NetCommons which is used for content management at over 3,500 educational institutions.[121]

2003

2004

2005

  • TaiwanAudrey Tang is the initiator and leader of the Pugs project.[127]
  • United StatesMary Lou Jepsen is the founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the founder of Pixel Qi.[21]
  • IndiaFacebook hires their first woman engineer, Ruchi Sanghvi.[75]
  • ChinaXiaoyun Wang and her team crack the SHA-1 data security algorithm.[128]

2006

  • United StatesCanadaMaria Klawe is the first woman to become president of the Harvey Mudd College since its founding in 1955 and was ACM president from 2002 until 2004.[129]
  • United StatesMelanie Rieback's research concerns the security and privacy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, she is known to have programmed the first virus to infect RFID devices.[130]
  • PolandJoanna Rutkowska presented Blue Pill, a rootkit based on x86 virtualization, at the Black Hat Briefings computer security conference.[131]
  • United StatesIn January, Janet Emerson Bashen, became the first African American woman to hold a patent for a software invention.[132]
  • United StatesFrances "Fran" Allen becomes the first woman to earn an A.M. Turing Award.[133]
  • BelgiumSophie Vandebroek becomes the Chief Technology Officer for Xerox.[14]
  • FranceAnne-Marie Kermarrec starts as the Research Director for L'Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA).[134]
  • IsraelYoelle Maarek opens the Google Haifa Engineering Center where she is the Director.[135]

2007

2008

2009

  • ChinaLixia Zhang is awarded an IEEE Internet Award for her "contributions towards developing the Internet's architecture."[119]
  • United StatesCarol Bartz joins Yahoo! as CEO.[141]
  • United KingdomGreeceMaria Petrou starts as the director of the Informatics and Telematics Institute at Greece's Centre for Research and Technology (CERTH).[142]

2010

  • GhanaFarida Bedwei co-founds Logiciel in Ghana.[143][144]

2011

PyLadies of Montreal at a 2015 GitHub party
PyLadies of Montreal at a 2015 GitHub party
  • PyLadies, an international organization of women interested in coding Python, is started in Los Angeles .[145]
  • United StatesMeg Whitman becomes CEO of Hewlett-Packard.[14]
  • GermanyBettina Speckmann is the first winner of the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research where she was recognized for her work on geographic information systems.[146]
  • JapanNoriko H. Arai is the Program director for the artificial intelligence challenge: "Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo?"[121]
  • KenyaShikoh Gitau is awarded the Google Anita Borg Award, becoming the first person to earn a Google award in Sub Saharan Africa.[147]

2012

  • United StatesShafi Goldwasser is a co-recipient of the A.M. Turing Award.[148]
  • Pixelles hosts their first game-programming incubator in Montreal .[149]
  • United KingdomComputer scientist, Muffy Calder, starts as the Chief Scientific Advisor for the Scottish Government.[150]
  • United StatesGinni Rometty becomes the first woman to serve as president and CEO of IBM.[14]
  • HungaryEva Tardos earns the Gödel Prize.[99]
  • GhanaRegina Honu founds Soronko Solutions, a software development company in 2012.[151]
  • United StatesCarol Reiley is the first woman engineer to be featured on the cover of MAKE magazine.[152][153]
  • Nigerian Women In Information Technology (NiWIIT) was created as an interest group of the Nigeria Computer Society to empower and encourage women working in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.

2013

2014

2015

  • United StatesSarah Sharp is the first winner of the annual Women in Open Source Community Award, awarded by Red Hat.[160]
  • Kesha Shah is the first winner of the annual Women in Open Source Academic Award, awarded by Red Hat.[160]
  • United KingdomGillian Docherty becomes the new CEO of the DataLab in Scotland.[161]

2016

Regina Honu with a classroom of students learning to code.
Regina Honu with a classroom of students learning to code

2017

2018

See also

  • Women in computing
  • Timeline of women in science

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