Category Archives: Computer Science

Stephanie Shirley

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Rachel Levy

Thank you to Lauren Buchsbaum, who pointed out this NPR Ted Radio hour piece on Dame Stephanie Shirley, a Kindertransport survivor who made it big in the tech business (pre-Mac and pc) and created a company for women to work … Continue reading →

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Margaret Hamilton

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to Richard Ziglar, who pointed out this Wikipedia post about Margaret Hamilton and the code she wrote for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), pictured below.

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Irene Greif

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Rachel Levy

Check out this super article in the Atlantic about Irene Greif, the first woman to get a PhD in Computer Science from MIT.   I like the way she talks about interdisciplinary connections between mathematics, engineering and computer science.

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Joanna Chorley

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Rachel Levy

Today is the first birthday of Grandma got STEM!  Thank you to everyone who has submitted #GGSTEM posts and made this project possible.  A big hello to the readers around the world (so far from 137 countries)! Thanks to Kimberly … Continue reading →

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Fannie M. Gordon

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Rachel Levy

Thank you to David Gross, great-grandson-in-law of STEM-ma  Maria Dee Salmonson, who took the time to write this terrific post about Fannie Gordon.  If anyone has a picture of her that we could share, we’d appreciate it. Fannie M. Gordon … Continue reading →

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Ester Gerston and Gloria Ruth Gorden

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Rachel Levy

Found this amazing picture on the Women in Computer Science tumblr with the following caption: “Esther Gerston and Gloria Ruth Gordon, early programmers working on the ENIAC computer in 1946. Photo from the US Army, via NPR, in: Laura Sydell, … Continue reading →

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Carol Covin

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Rachel Levy

I was intrigued by your concept that senior women may not be given credit for having worked in STEM fields, in people’s mental images of grandmas sitting in rocking chairs with aprons on and knitting in their laps. I was … Continue reading →

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Karen Spärk Jones

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Rachel Levy

From Geek Feminism Wiki featured article on 6.12.13: Karen Spärck Jones, the University of Cambridge Photo permissions:  CC BY Thayvian Karen Spärck Jones (1935–2007) was a British computer scientist. Her specialties were natural language processing and information retrieval. Spärck Jones had a long history … Continue reading →

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Evi Nemeth

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Rachel Levy

  Thanks to Sam Kome, who passed along this story from The Register (photo from Telluride Tech Festival Site): SHE LITERALLY WROTE THE BOOK ON UNIX Evi Nemeth was born in 1940 and earned her PhD in mathematics in 1971 before … Continue reading →

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Grace Hopper

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thank you to Jill S. Tietjen, President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc. and regular contributor to Grandma got STEM for this remembrance of Admiral Grace Hopper. The woman whom I credit as the catalyst for all of the work that I … Continue reading →

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