Ada, Countess of Lovelace, was schooled by her mother in math and science (to avoid any influence from the father, the famous poet Lord Byron). In creating a program for Charles Babbage's prototype of a digital computer, the Lady is now considered to be the first computer programmer.
This pioneering computer scientist worked hard to get women into the field of technology. Anita believed technology could solve world problems if more women were involved: "Around the world, women are not full partners in driving the creation of new technology that will define their lives. This is not good for women and not good for the world."
This U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace was a pioneering computer scientist and mathematician, and was key to the development of COBOL, an early, high-level programming language still in use today.
Movie star, inventor and pioneer of the frequency hopping technology originally designed to guide torpedoes to their targets during the Second World War (which would one day form the basis for WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth communication systems.) She fled a controlling husband for Hollywood where she dated American businessman and pilot Howard Hughes who fueled her innovation by giving her a small set of equipment to use in her trailer between takes on set. She designed a new wing design for his planes.
In the eighth grade a geography teacher told Mary Allen she ought to be a computer programmer. She went to MIT as a philosophy graduate and ended up working on designing and programming the world's first personal computer.
Holmes patented a number of inventions, including an apparatus for treating patients with tuberculosis, a surgeon's headlamp and rotary valves for internal combustion engines.
Canada's first female computer scientist
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