3. …the first female computer programmer
Ada Lovelace
(1815-1852)
“The science of operations, as derived from
mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and
has its own abstract truth and value.”
4. Dr. Grace Hopper
Wrote the first compiler, developed the COBOL
programming language and coined the term “debug”
(1951-2012)
7. dis•rupt
verb dis-ˈrəpt
to cause (something) to be unable to
continue in the normal way :
to interrupt the normal progress or
activity of (something)
20. “If you can find something that you're
really passionate about, whether you're a
man or a woman comes a lot less into play.
Passion is a gender-neutralizing force."
“the First Tech Visionary”– The New Yorker
Charles Babbage
She also wrote how it might perform a particular calculation: Note G, as it is known, set out a detailed plan for the punched cards to weave a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers, and is considered to be the first computer program.