Known for her work on the development of the satellite geodesy models that enable GPS to exist. 

Credited with the invention of the subroutine, she was one of the six "computers" to work on ENIAC.

Credited as a developer of Voice over IP (the technology that is used to transmit voice over the internet and make technologies such as Skype possible)

Wrote the manual for ENIAC and was instrumental in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be rewired for each new program to a computer that was able to perform  fifty stored instructions.

Developed the animation technology used to create GIFs

Invented a type of parallel microprocessor that made the early internet possible.

Contributed to the development of fiber optics and nanotechnology.

Led a design team that made the first one-gigahertz computer processor chip. Dean holds three of nine patents associated with the IBM personal computer (1981)

Wrote the first full implementation of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method and contributed to the development of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm.

Works to establish national standards to make computers more user-friendly and first imagined the idea of clicking on a graphic to start a computer program

Created of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director

Was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the team that created the HP 2116A.

Known as the Father of Modern gaming, changed the gaming industry forever by inventing interchangeable cartridges allowing different games to be played on the same machine.

Solved a challenging information routing problem in the early days of the internet with the invention the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol and earned the moniker “Mother of the Internet.”

Developed an algorithm that stitched together a the first picture of a black hole.

Wrote one of the first Assembly Languages, ARC and did work developing Natural Language translation.

Was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science.

Is credited with the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling and widely-known for the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI microchip design; despite these achievements IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed that she is transgender.

Was a pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award.

Wrote the software for the worlds first interactive personal computer.

Coded rockets with a code was used to fly rockets and laid the foundations for space shuttle launches. Her focus was on solving energy problems, including wind and solar projects.