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Faculty Land Acknowledgment

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While thousands of women played key roles in the development and deployment of modern computing and the Internet in the United States, their names and their contributions have often gone unrecognized.

Meet some of these remarkable pioneers and learn about their contributions to the technology revolution.

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Educators

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	Jeanne Clare Adams Social Implementers	Frances E. Allen Programmers and Developers	Sharon Altus Programmers and Developers	Dana Angluin Educators	Ruth Rauschenberger Ammlung Programmers and Developers	Ruth Leach Amonette Educators	Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli Programmers and Developers	Wanda Austin Social Implementers	Henriette Avram Programmers and Developers		Rebecca Bace Defenders	Maureen Baginski Defenders	Dona Bailey Programmers and Developers	Ruzena Bajcsy Educators	Jean Bartik Programmers and Developers	Carol Bartz Social implementers	Gwen Bell Social Implementers
Evelyn Berezin Inventors and Designers	Marsha Berger Educators	Danielle Bunten Berry Programmers and Developers	Gertrude Blanch Theorists	Dorothy Toplitzky Blum Defenders	Lenore Blum Educators	Sharla Boehm Theorists	Anita Borg Social Implementers	Sarah Botsai Defenders	Eileen Buckholtz Social Implementers	Mary Budenbach Defenders	Margaret Burnett Educators	Lila Todd Butler Programmers and Developers	Margaret K Butler Programmers and Developers		Ruth Haueter Cahn Programmers and Developers	Elizabeth Jean Campbell Programmers and Developers	Ann Caracristi Defenders
Aileen Cavanagh Programmers and Developers	Lorinda Cherry Programmers and Developers	Judy Clapp Programmers and Developers	Barbara Clark Defenders	Edith Clarke Educators	Mary Clem Inventors and Designers	Lynn Conway Inventors and Designers	Mary Coombs Programmers and Developers		Christine Darden Programmers and Developers	Ingrid Daubechies Theorists	Deborah Davidson Programmers and Developers	Ruth Margaret Davis Social Implementers	Wilma Zimmerman Davis Defenders	Elaine Denniston Programmers and Developers	Marjorie Devaney Programmers and Developers	Agnes Meyer Driscoll Defenders	Donna Dubinsky Programmers and Developers
	Annie Easley Programmers and Developers	Carla Ellis Educators	Judith Estrin Social Implementers	Thelma Estrin Educators		Elizabeth Feinler Social Implementers	Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein Defenders	Christiane Fellbaum Social Implementers	Vera Ruth Filby Defenders	Carly Fiorina Social Implementers	Sally Floyd Inventors and Designers	Alexandra Ilmer Forsythe Educators	Barbara Fox Programmers and Developers	Margaret R. Fox Social Implementers	Phyllis Fox Inventors and Designers	Elizebeth Friedman Defenders	Clara Froelich Programmers and Developers
	Susan Gerhart Educators	Adele Goldberg Programmers and Developers	Adele Goldstine Programmers and Developers	Fan Chung Graham Theorists	Susan L.Graham Educators	Evelyn Boyd Granville Educators	Irene Greif Educators	Barbara Grosz Educators	Lois Gutman Programmers and Developers		Lois Haibt Programmers and Developers	Margaret Hamilton Programmers and Developers	Pamela Hardt-English Social Implementers	Ann Hardy Programmers and Developers	Mary Jean Harrold Social Implementers	Mary Hawes Programmers and Developers	Paula Hawthorn Social Implemeters
Marlene Hazle Programmers and Developers	Beatrice Alice Hicks Inventors and Designers	Julia Hirschberg Theorists	Genevieve Young Hitt Defenders	Betty Snyder Holberton Programmers and Developers	Laura Holmes Defenders	Erna Schneider Hoover Inventors and Designers	Grace Murray Hopper Inventors and Designers	Judy Hoyt Educators	Vera Huckel Programmers and Developers	Velma Roeth Huskey Social Implementers		Mary Jane Irwin Educators		Kathleen Jackson Programmers and Developers	Mary Jackson Programmers and Developers	Leah Jamieson Educators	Mary Janowitz Programmers and Developers
Katherine Johnson Programmers and Developers	Anita K. Jones Social Implementers		Susan Kare Inventors and Designers	Mary Kenneth Keller Social Implementers	Minnie Kenny Defenders	Dorothy McEwen Kildall Social Implementer	Velva Klaessy Defenders	Maria Klawe Educators	Sue Knapp Programmers and Developers	Eleanor Kolchin Programmers and Developers	Adele Mildred Koss Programmers and Developers	Sandra Kurtzig Social Implementers		Hedy Lamarr Inventors and Designers	Susan Landau Educators	Brenda Laurel Inventors and Designers	Margaret LeMone Social Implementers
Nancy Leveson Educators	Barbara Liskov Educators	Joyce Currie Little Educators	Nancy Ann Lynch Educators		Chris Macie Programmers and Developers	Florence Jessie MacWilliams Theorists	Judy Malloy Programmers and Developers	Marie Bierstein Malone Programmers and Developers	Miriam D. Mann Programmers and Developers	Ethel C. Marden Programmers and Developers	Hilda Faust Mathieu Defenders	Kathleen McKeown Educators	Barbara McNamara Defenders	Carol McWilliams Programmers and Developers	Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer Programmers and Developers	Toby Merriken Defenders	Marie Meyer Defenders
Juliana Mickwitz Defenders	Jude Milhon Programmers and Developers	Elaine Mills Programmers and Developers	Juanita Moody Defenders	JoAnn Hardin Morgan Programmers and Developers	Nora Moser Programmers and Developers	Melba Roy Mouton Programmers and Developers		Klara Dan von Neumann Programmers and Developers	Poppy Northcutt Programmers and Developers		Meral Ozsoyoglu Educators		Jayne Partridge Programmers and Developers	Barbara Paulson Programmers and Developers	Louise Pearsall Defenders	Katherine Peddrew Programmers and Developers	Radia Perlman Inventors and Designers
Janet R. Perna Social Implementers	Mary Louise Prather Defenders	Renetta Predmore-Lynch Defenders			Mina Rees Educators	Homé McAllister Reitwesner Programmers and Developers	Judith A.Resnik Programmers and Developers	Sherry Reson Programmers and Developers	Ida Rhodes Inventors and Designers	Harriett B. Rigas Educators	Virginia Jenkins Riley Defenders	Billie Robertson Programmers and Developers	Arianna W. Rosenbluth Theorists	Marie Rowland Programmers and Developers	Rosalie Ryan Social Implementers	Phyllis Rye Programmers and Developers
Jean Sammet Programmers and Developers	Pamela Samuelson Educators	Lucy Sanders Social Implementers	Jeanette Scissum Social Implementers	Patricia Selinger Programmers and Developers	Carol Shaw Programmers and Developers	Mary Shaw Educators	Mya Shone Programmers and Developers	Liuba Shrira Educators	Elsie Shutt Social Implementers	Willa Wyatt Sigmund Programmers and Developers	Barbara Simons Social Implementers	Karen Sollins Social Implementers	Cynthia Solomon Programmers and Developers	Frances Bilas Spence Programmers and Developers	Barbera Stephenson Programmers and Developers	Marion Stokes Social Implementers	Peggy Strader Programmers and Developers
Anna Strong Defenders	Judy Sullivan Social Implementers	Madeline Sullivan Programmers and Developers	Katharine Swift Defenders		Ruth Teitelbaum Programmers and Developers	Augusta H. Teller Programmers and Developers	Valerie Thomas Inventors and Designers	Amy Thorpe Defenders	Gertude Tierney Inventors and Designers	Marilyn Mantei Tremaine Educators	Janie Tsao Social Implementers	Mary Tsingou-Menzel Programmers and Developers		Dana Ulery Programmers and Developers		Van Lew Defenders	Dorothy Vaughan Programmers and Developers
	Julia Ward Defenders	Gladys West Programmers and Developers	Julia Wetzel Defenders	Telle Whitney Social Implementers	Patricia Wilcox Programmers and Developers	Mary Allen Wilkes Programmers and Developers	Marsha Rhea Williams Educators	Roberta Williams Programmers and Developers	Ruth Wilson Defenders	Edith Windsor Programmers and Developers	Jeannette Wing Educators	Joan Winters Social Implementers	Viola Woodward Programmers and Developers	Margaret Wright Educators	Irma Wyman Social Implementers
Pearl I. Young Social Implementers		Saydean Zeldin Programmers and Developers	Lixia Zhang Educators

Do you know a U.S. woman in computing over 65 (or deceased) who should be included in the next update?
Have a source to contribute to expand a profile? See a bug?
Let us know. Is the woman an international pioneer? Add the pioneer to our international spreadsheets.

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We are still building the museum reading room and viewing lounge.
In the meantime, check out these excellent books on computing history and some of the pioneers in our museum:

Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes (2018).
Mar Hicks, Programmed Inequality (2019).
Liza Mundy, Code Girls (2017).
and these books about Dr. Grace Hopper

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