A VERY brief history of computing

Women have had significant impact on computing since very early on, but have been on the decline in numbers since the 1980s.

• A Brief History of Women in Computing
  • 1843, Ada Lovelace became the first computer programmer by designing the first computer algorithm
  • World War II, in 1942, Hedy Lamarr invents the frequency-hopping technology that would later allow the invention of wireless signals like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
  • 1945–46, Jean Bartik and five other women developed and codified many of the foundations of software programming while working on ENIAC. The six women, whose software work was crucial to its operation and success, were not invited to the dinner celebration for the completion of ENIAC.
  • 1952, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper created one of the world’s first compilers (in her spare time). She envisioned code to use English language-based instructions, and her programming language design work led to the creation of COBOL, used to this day.

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A computer program is a collection of instructions that performs a specific task when executed by a computer.