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I've noticed that Grace Hopper and sometimes Ada Lovelace are the only women in computing people ever talk about. I'm glad I got to know about Margaret Hamilton, but this is the first time I've heard of her at all.

There's so many awards, events, and groups named after Hopper or Lovelace that you'd think they're the only two women in computing :/

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Radia Perlman deserves more credit than she gets. She invented the Spanning Tree Protocol at DEC. Also Elizabeth Rather, co-inventor of the Forth language.

Barbara Liskov:

-- ACM Turing Award, "For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing"

-- IEEE John von Neumann Award, “For fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems.”

Radia Perlman also wrote a great (and fun!) book on networking: https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int...

It actually ticked me off when I found out about her that she and her team did so much with basically no recognition. Here's two nice resources on her. One has a picture of her standing next to the code they did in assembly on hand-made memory that worked the first time in worst environment imaginable. Last is the site with her tool she built to try to eliminate all software errors at spec level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

http://htius.com/

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