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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women in tech! A good time to remember a couple of the intellectual women that RP has covered:
Maggie Gee
Maggie Gee: aviatrix, nuclear physicist, and overachiever
Parisa Tabriz
Parisa Tabriz: Google’s security expert
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton: developed on-board software for the Apollo missions, coined the term “software engineer”
Dame Steve Shirley
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley: went by a man’s name to build out a massively successful software company; 297 of her first 300 employees were women
Annie Jean Easley
Annie Jean Easley: Boundary-smashing engineer, mathematician, and NASA rocket scientist
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper: Invented the compiler.
Mary Sherman Morgan
Mary Sherman Morgan: Helped the US win the space race by inventing a new kind of rocket fuel
Katherine Johnson
.Katherine Johnson: One of NASA’s early human computers, and subject of the upcoming Hidden Figures movie (where she’s played by Taraji P. Henson!)
And it’s worth mentioning that the world’s first programmer, Ada Lovelace herself, is in the RP book. :)
