Women's History Month

A brief biography, of Adele Katz Goldstine, one of the programmers of ENIAC (an early computer) and a pioneer in the nascent computer engineering field from the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

A brief biography of pilot and women's rights activist Amelia Earhart.

An entry on Dr. Mae Jemison, engineer and astronaut, from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

A biography of Sally Ride, physicist and astronaut, who was the first American woman in space in 1983.

A pioneer in computer technology possessing one of the first software patents ever issued.

A brief biography, of Frances Spence, one of the programmers of ENIAC (an early computer) and a pioneer in the nascent computer engineering field from the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

A biography of a movie star - and inventor of the Frequency Hopping technology that enables cell phone and Bluetooth technology to operate - Hedy Lamarr from the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

A Wired Magazine article on Margaret Hamilton , a computer scientist who was instrumental in landing humans on the moon and developing modern software engineering.

A brief biography of Ida Rhodes, a mathematician, pioneer programmer, and language translation specialist.

The 2011 obituary, with a brief biography, of Jean Bartik, one of the programmers of ENIAC (an early computer) and a pioneer in the nascent computer engineering field.

An obituary and biography of Karen Spärck Jones, a towering figure in search technology - Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.

A brief biography from the League of Coders (courtesy of Cornell University) of Kathleen Booth, who is credited with designing the first assembler and autocode.

A brief biography, of Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, one of the programmers of ENIAC (an early computer) and a pioneer in the nascent computer engineering field from Gale Science in Context.

A brief biography, of Marlyn Meltzer, one of the programmers of ENIAC (an early computer) and a pioneer in the nascent computer engineering field from the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

A Navy mathematician and computer programmer who is reputed to have coined the computer terms "bug" and "debugging" after literal bugs got into wiring and shorted circuits.

A brief biography, of Ruth Teitelbaum, one of the programmers of ENIAC (an early computer) and a pioneer in the nascent computer engineering field from the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

A brief biography of Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar, from the American Chemical Society.

A brief biography of Valentina Tereshkova, who, in 1963, became the first woman in space, from the Encyclopedia of World Biography.