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Dr Thelma Estrin

Pioneering Jewish American computer scientist and engineer and a trailblazer in applying computer technology to healthcare and medical research.

American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner; director of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s Software Engineering Division, a crucial role in developing onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.

Kateryna Yushchenko

Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.

Frances Allen

American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in optimizing compilers.

Beatrice Worsley

Pioneering Canadian computer scientist.

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Evelyn Boyd Granville was only the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American University. She worked in computing.

Ida Rhodes

Ida Rhodes was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She studied mathematics and had a variety of jobs before joining the Mathematical Tables Project in New York City. She did important work on the development of computers.