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"What cruel fate! What torture the bugs will this day put me to!"
--Aristophanes, 420 B.C.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

facebook.com/photo/?fbid=609011695592867 A single photo almost erased them from tech history. Kathy Kleiman, a young computer scientist, found the image years later. Curious about the women beside the massive ENIAC machine, she was told: “Probably just models.” But they weren’t. They were the first true coders.


Grace Brewster Murray Hopper 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1906(12/09) - 1992(01/01)	Auguszta Mária Schütz-Harkányi Teller 36 ? ? ?, ?, HU 1909(05/30) - 2000(06/04)	Dorothy Johnson Vaughan 1 64108? 816? Kansas City(KSCY), MO 1910(09/20) – 2008(11/10)

Frances Elizabeth Holberton 1 19104? 215? Philadelphia(PHLA), PA 1917(03/07) – 2001(12/08)	Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson 1 24986 304 White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, WV 1918(08/26) - 2020(02/24)	Dorothy Du Boisson 44 ? ? ?, England, GB1919(11/26) – 2013(02/01)	Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli 353 F92 ? Creeslough, DL, IE 1921(02/12) – 2006(04/20)

Mary Winston Jackson 1 23670? 757? Hampton(HMPN), VA 1921(04/09) – 2005(02/11)	Beatrice Helen Worsley 52 76000 422 Querétaro, QE, MX 1921(10/18) – 1972(05/08)	Frances V. Spence 1 19104? 215? Philadelphia(PHLA), PA 1922(03/02) – 2012(07/18)	Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer 1 19104? 215? Philadelphia(PHLA), PA 1922 – 2008(12/04)	Kathleen Hylda Valerie Britten Booth 44 DY5 1384? Stourbridge, England, GB 1922(07/09) - 2022(09/29)

Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum 1 11401? 718? Bronx(NYCX), NY 1924(02/01) - 1986(08/09)	Maria von Wedemeyer Weller 48 74300 95 Pätzig?, PL 1924(04/23) – 1977(11/16)	Betty Jean Jennings Bartik 1 64489 660? Alanthus Grove, Gentry County, MO 1924(12/27) – 2011(03/23)	Jean E. Sammet 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1928(03/23) - 2017(05/20)	Mary Clare Blood Coombs 44 N10 20 Muswell Hill, London, England, GB 1929(02/04) - 2022(02/28)

Elizabeth Jocelyn Feinler 1 26003 304? Wheeling(WLNG), Ohio, Marshall County, WV 1931(03/02)	Frances Elizabeth Allen (TA2006) 1 12972 518? Peru, Clinton County, NY 1932(08/04) – 2020(08/04)	Vera Stephanie Buchthal Shirley 49 44001? 231 Dortmund, NW, DE 1933(09/16)	Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones 44 HD 1484 Huddersfield, England, GB 1935(08/26) – 2007(04/04)	Margaret Heafield Hamilton 1 47454 812723 Paoli(PAOL), Orange County, IN 1936(08/17)

Mary Allen Wilkes 1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL 1937(09/25)	Dana Ulery 1 62201? 618? East Saint Louis(ESLS), Saint Clair County, IL 1938(01/02)	Sally Shlaer 1 44101? 216? Cleveland(CLEV), Cuyahoga County, OH 1938(12/13) - 1998(11/12)	Barbara Jane Huberman Liskov (TA2008) 1 90086? 213? Los Angeles(LSAN), CA 1939(11/07)	Lenore Blum 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1942(12/14)

Lenore Carol Epstein Blum 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1942(12/18)	Mary Shaw 1 20090? 202? Washington(WASH), DC 1943(09/30)	Lorinda Landgraf Cherry 1 07044 973239,571,857 Verona, Essex County, NJ 1944(11/18) - 2022(02/11)	Adele Goldberg 1 44101? 216? Cleveland(CLEV), Cuyahoga County, OH 1945(07/07)	Stephanie Seneff 1 65201? 573? Columbia(CLMA), Boone County, MO 1948(04/20)

Carol Ann Bartz 1 55987 507452,453,454,457,494,724 Winona(WINO), MN 1948(08/29)	Anita Borg Naffz 1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL 1949(01/17) - 2003(04/06)	Sally Jean Floyd 1 22906? 434? Charlottesville(CHVL), VA 1950(05/20) - 2019(08/25)	Radia Joy Perlman 1 23707? 757? Portsmouth(PTMO), VA 1951(01/01)	Maria Margaret Klawe 1C M? 416? Toronto(TORO), ON 1951

Susan H. Nycum ? 1951	Roberta Lynn Heuer Williams 1 90086? 213? Los Angeles(LSAN), CA 1953(02/16)	Lucinda Sanders 1 ? ? ?, LA 1954	Carla Meninsky ? 1955	Carol Shaw 1 94303? 650? Palo Alto(PLAL), Santa Clara County, CA 1955

Jeannette Marie Wing 1 ? ? ?, US 1956(12/04)	Cynthia Dwork (NMSM2025) 1 ? ? ?, US 1958(06/27)	Monica Sin-Ling Lam ? 1958	Shafi Goldwasser (TA2012) 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1958(11/14)	Kim Karin Polese 1 94704? 510? Berkeley(BKLY), Alameda County, CA 1961(11/13)

Melinda Ann French Gates 1 75221? 214? Dallas(DLLS), TX 1964(08/15)	Megan J. Smith 1 14240? 716? Buffalo(BFLO), Erie County, NY 1964(10/21)	Mary Lou Jepsen 1 06295? 860? Windsor(WNDS), Hartford County, CT 1965(04/05)	Ellen R. Spertus 1 60022? 847? Glencoe, Cook County, IL 1968	Jeri Ellsworth 1 ? ? ?, GA 1974(08/14)

Fernanda Bertini Viégas 55 ? ? ?, ?, BR 1971	Marissa Ann Mayer 1 54403? 715? Wausau(WAUS), Marathon County, WI 1975(05/30)	Melanie R. Rieback 1 44101? 216? Cleveland(CLEV), Cuyahoga County, OH 1978(10/26)	Joanna Rutkowska 48 00001 22 Warsaw, PL 1981	Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan 7 50000 7273 Almaty, ALA, KZ 1988(11/06)