7 days before Women’s Day, we had to honor the women who have played a major role in digital technology and, thank you to Social builder for providing us with all this information that made it possible to create this article. Here is the portrait of some
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Ada Lovelace is considered by computer historians to be the first person in history to have programmed. We can see his portrait in particular on the authentication holograms of Microsoft products.
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Hedy Lamarr, Famous Hollywood actress, she was above all a talented scientist and mathematician. She was the inventor of a secret transmission coding system in 1949. The army went back on the invention in the 1960s. It was not until 1997 that she was recognized for this invention which is today at the origin of encrypted communications, GPS and WIFI.
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The Calculators: They were the first women, “to perform complex calculations by hand to calculate the trajectory of the first spaceflights in the 1960s”.
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They were able to establish themselves in their field despite many obstacles: the image we had of a mother in their time: Margaret Hamilton; racial segregation: Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Catherine Darden, a film was released in 2017 in their honor, the shadow figures.
Dorothy Vaughan becomes an expert in computer programming. “She taught her colleagues how to translate mathematical formulas into computer code. During her years at NASA, she was involved in the fight for equal pay between women and men. »
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Katherine Johnson, mathematician, “Her calculations were essential to the effective conduct of missions, such as Apollo11 (men set foot on the moon, in 1969). She received America’s highest civilian honor in 2015.”
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Mary Jackson, mathematician, “In 1958, she became NASA’s first black woman engineer. She worked as a manager responsible for the women’s program with NASA’s Office of Equal Opportunity. Thanks to her, NASA is one of the first government organizations to end segregation within it.”
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“Within NASA, Christine Darden rose through the ranks to become ‘one of the leading experts […] on supersonic flight and sonic waves’, as well as the first African-American woman at Langley to be promoted to leadership positions. »
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Margaret Hamilton Margaret Hamilton is behind the success of the Apollo 11 mission, she developed a computer program to land the rocket on the Moon. Without it, Neil Armstrong probably wouldn’t have walked on the moon in 1969
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Wendy Hall, English computer scientist. For many, Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the hypertext link but Wendy Hall is the shadow figure of this invention. It is she, in fact, who is at the origin of the development of hypertext technology.
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“All these women contributed to the development of computing, but they were made invisible by history. They are the examples that women have their place in the digital sector.”
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Testimony
“Guided and Advised by Social Builder, Madeleine became addicted to code, over 40 years old in 2020. After two developer trainings: Php and Java, she realized that she had more of a “Front-end” profile She trained as a Designer-web, and graduated in January 2023. Yes, a designer who codes has a better chance of standing out. She is the example that proves that you can code at any time. How old.marquer » M.L