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If I had a chance to have lunch with a womxn icon in tech dead or alive, it would be Valerie Thomas.
Who is Valeri...
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Tempting to say Grace Hopper or Hedy Lamarr, maybe Margaret Hamilton or Dame Stephanie Shirley... but I think I'm going to choose someone closer to my age: Sophie Wilson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson) because I think the conversation would be far ranging, interesting, informative and still possible 😁
Grace Hopper! Learn more about the idea behind the first creation of the compilator. To take a closer look at his background. History has always fascinated me 😍
Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended by others to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
Arlene Gwendolyn Lee
Around the same time that Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Mary Robinson, and Katherine Johnson were working at NASA, she became one of the first woman programmers in Canada. As an American Black woman marrying a white man in the 1960s, they had to move to Toronto. There, they could legally marry and live together... As long as they bought a house, and to afford that, they both needed jobs. Her son tells her story best.
Wow what an amazing story @abbeyperini! 😊
I'd have to go with Edie Windsor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Windsor).
Edie sounds amazing @deeheber! :)