A Computer of One’s Own

You might wonder why we end our calendar with Satoshi Nakamoto, an unexpected choice for a calendar about women pioneers in tech. Since…

Towards the end of our list we bring you the story of a young woman that confronted the paywall and enabled free distribution of…

Today’s pioneer is active both in open source and politics. She wrote the first implementation of Perl 6 using Haskell. Also, she became…

Passionate about learning theory Kathy Sierra has dedicated part of her life to make learners’ lives easier by transforming the way of…

Today’s pioneer is a Professor a the University of Tokyo, that has invested her career in the study of language and programming. In 2010…

In the early 90s, there was a woman leading the group of computer pioneers who developed the first Internet networks in Latin America…

Roberta Williams, mostly known for co-founding Sierra Online and her King’s Quest game series (1984–1998) and Phantasmagoria (1995), was…

Today’s pioneer is know for having built the first true word processor. In the 1976 list “Top 100 Business Women in the United States” she…

Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. As a linguist and philosopher she was aware that language…

Today deep learning is a hot topic in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, but it was a woman who back in 1986…

Back in the ‘70s as networks of computers started to be more common, and people tried to use those computers to solve tasks in groups, a…

Regardless of the technology you are using to read this post, you need to know that its processor was early designed by a trans woman…

At the same time that Laurie Spiegel was experimenting on music using algorithmic sequences, Wendy Carlos was putting melody, harmony and…

Back in the ’70s if you wanted to play with color and sound you had to know how to program a computer. Color wasn’t democratized yet. So…

In the 10th day of our calendar we change continent to introduce you to Verónica Dahl, the Argentinean computer scientist that stands…

She might have done her PhD thesis about Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of John McCarthy, or have a programming principle…

While according to history Harold Lawson is credited with the invention of pointers in 1964 for the programming language PL/1, it was…

On July 20 of 1969, just as the Apollo 11 astronauts were about to land on the moon, something unexpected happened that stopped the…

To talk about Dorothy Vaughn, we have to go back to the time of flesh and blood computers. Yes, amazingly something that started by doing…

In our previous article we talked about the creator of FLOW-MATIC, the first data processing language with an English-like syntax. Now is…

Today is the day of Grace Murray Hopper, aka “Amazing Grace”. Without her work and the influence of her ideas on the development of…

Looking at the work of Kathleen Booth shows a person heavily interested in the usability of computers. She wrote the first assembly…

Our second pioneer is no other than Elizabeth “Betty” Holberton, one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC.

In the beginning there was Ada Lovelace, as you might already know, but an advent calendar has to start somewhere. This one that seeks to…