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Radia Perlman
A software designer and network engineer, Radia Perlman earned a place in internet history for creating the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) which governs how information is sent between servers. Perlman...
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Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for her work in revolutionizing the field of cryptography. Raised in Israel, Shafira Goldwasser graduated from...
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Safra Catz
As president and then CEO of Oracle, one of the world’s largest software companies, Safra Catz has helped shape the present and future of the computer world. Catz graduated from the Wharton School at...
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Janet Lieberman
With her mastery of 3D printing, Janet Lieberman helped create the first successful hands-free couples’ vibrator in 2014. Lieberman earned a BS from MIT in mechanical engineering in 2007 and...
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Actress Hedy Lamarr patents the basis for WiFi
Hedy Lamarr in Her Highness and the Bellboy, 1945. August 11, 1942This Week in History: On August 11, 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr patented an invention that used player piano parts to help the military...
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To Girls Taking Their First STEM Classes
2016-2017 Rising Voices Fellow Maya Jodidio pipetting DNA into a gel.To Girls Taking Their First STEM Classes,If you’re a female-identifying teen and you attend high school, chances are good that you...
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Judith Resnik becomes first Jewish American astronaut and second woman in space
Judith Resnik becomes first Jewish American astronaut and second woman in spaceMission Specialist Judith Resnik sits on the floor of the middeck on September 8, 1984. Beside her on a notebook is a note...
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Living by Their Own Codes
Living by Their Own Codes by Sarah WeinbergvshabyMon, 03/17/2014 - 14:19Irene Greif.Courtesy of Irene Greif.Radia Perlman, software designer and network engineer, 2009.Women who make history rarely...
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Jewish Women in Computer Science
Jewish Women in Computer Scienced8adminWed, 02/03/2021 - 10:31Alona BachMarlyn Wescoff and Ruth Lichterman, two of the original six women operators of ENIAC. U.S. Army Photo, ARL Technical Library.In...
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Edie Windsor
Edie Windsord8adminWed, 02/03/2021 - 10:39Rachel B. TivenLGBT activist Edie Windsor at DC Pride, 2017. Photograph by Rex Block.In BriefWhen Edie Windsor’s wife died after 44 years together, Edie was...
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