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Where are the technical contributions?

A selection of some of the major early contributions in chronological order;

first programmer - Ada Lovelace

foundational paper for computerized algebra - Grete Hermann

original programmers of the ENIAC - Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman

first compiler written - Grace Hopper

first person to use a computer in a private home & first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer - Mary Allen Wilkes

And all of this was done before Mary Keller became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science, in 1965, and it wasn't until 1989 that IBM had their first female fellow, Frances E. Allen.

If you are claiming to be finding it hard to find technical contributions to computer science by women and that you see no evidence of discrimination, it means you are being willfully blind, at best.

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Wil van der Aalst – business process management, process mining, Petri nets

Hal Abelson – intersection of computing and teaching

Serge Abiteboul – database theory

Samson Abramsky – game semantics

Leonard Adleman – RSA, DNA computing

Manindra Agrawal – polynomial-time primality testing

Luis von Ahn – human-based computation

Alfred Aho – compilers book, the 'a' in AWK

Amos Nuwasiima – PHP Programming book

Frances E. Allen – compiler optimization

Alexander Scaranti – Image Processing, Image Retrieval

Gene Amdahl – supercomputer developer, founder of Amdahl Corporation

A. Annerl – multidimensional processing, computational complexity theory

Andrew Appel – compilers text books

Bruce Arden - programming language compilers (GAT, MAD), virtual memory architecture, MTS

Sanjeev Arora – PCP theorem (Hahaha. Right, I want to see who came up with Ketamine theorem.)

A. E. Hugo - parallel computing on heterogeneous multicore architectures[citation needed]

John Vincent Atanasoff – computer pioneer

Ali Aydar - computer scientist and CEO of Sporcle

Leonard Ayunar - Computer Programming Enthusiast, 1997 - At Present Software Developer

That's just surnames beginning with A. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists

Hal (Harold) Abelson is a man :)

If you haven't already, shame on you; You should check him & Jerald Jay Sussman's EPIC 1986 SICP course for (I think) HP employees (SICP: Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs). videos are available here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

[EDIT]: I notices that you've apparently listed male computer scientists (it's 5:23am here). But I won't remove my comment as the SICP link might be useful for others.

I wasn't trying to find a massive list, droithomme asked "where are the technical contributions" by women in computing, not "who has the biggest list". Really, all I needed to write down was Grace Hopper. Compilers being fairly useful in the field.

Did everyone miss the point of that comment? Most of the names on my list are not women.

I know they are not. I was commenting on that. I assumed that you posted a big list to demonstrate the lack of women in CS.

[edit] reading over, I could have been a lot more clear. I should have said "which group" rather than "who"

I think grandparent poster was referring to blogs and articles on the internet today, not all of computing history.

Unless the thesis is that women have suddenly got crap at computing, I think that historic references are valid.

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