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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 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.

Gertrude Blanch

Gertrude Blanch was a Polish born American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

Nicole-Reine Lepaute was a French noblewoman who helped Lalande with astronomical calculations.

Kathleen McNulty Antonelli

Kathleen McNulty Antonelli was an Irish-born American computer programmer who was one of the first to work with the early ENIAC machine.

Jean Jennings Bartik

Jean Bartik was an American mathematician famous as one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

Ada Lovelace

Mathematician who wrote code for computers before they even existed, making her the first computer programmer

Grace Hopper

At a very young age Grace Murray Hopper showed an interest in engineering. As a child, she would often take apart household goods and put them back together. Little did her family know, her curiosity would eventually gain her recognition from the highest office in the land.

Arfa Karim

Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004 at age 10.

Rapelang Rabana

Rapelang Rabana is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and speaker who founded the learning technology company Rekindle Learning in 2013.