200 Years of Technological Innovations

Ada Lovelace

10/12/1815 - 27/11/1852

"...Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician & writer, known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She is sometimes regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of a "computing machine" and one of the first computer programmers... (Wikipedia, 2019)."

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Admiral Grace Hopper

9/12/1906 - 1/1/1992

"...Admiral Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, a programming language still in use today... (Wikipedia, 2019)."

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Annie Easley

23/04/1933 - 25/05/2011

"...Annie J. Easley was a female African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage, and was one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA... (Wikipedia, 2019)."

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Margaret Hamilton

17/08/1936 - Present

"...Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She coined the term "software engineering". Hamilton was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program... (Wikipedia, 2019)."

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Dr Adele Goldberg

7/7/1945 - Present

"...Adele Goldberg is a computer scientist who participated in developing the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.

She was part of the team that ... developed the infrastructure and design for overlapping windows on display screens, or "Graphical User Interface" (GUI)... (Wikipedia, 2019)."

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Anita Borg

17/1/1949 - 6/4/2003

"... Anita Borg was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Her experience running the ever-expanding Systers mailing list, which she founded in 1987, led her to work in email communication. As a consultant engineer in the Network Systems Laboratory under Brian Reid, she developed MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities... (Wikipedia, 2019)"

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Susan Kare

10/12/1815 - 27/11/1852

"...Susan Kare is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements and typefaces for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also Creative Director (and one of the original employees) at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She has worked for Microsoft and IBM, and, more recently, Pinterest and Facebook... (Wikipedia, 2019)"

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