Trivia of some of the contributions and persons of interest, run before my History of Women in Tech talk at CodeMash 2015

1. Women in Tech Trivia
Compiled by Sarah Dutkiewicz
sarah@cletechconsulting.com

2. Who gets credited with having found the first
bug?

3. Grace Murray Hopper
This happened in 1947. However, she was quick to
point out that she was not present when the bug
was actually found.
- Source: “Amazing Grace” Murray Hopper

4. Who was the first female to receive a PhD in
computer science?

5. Sister Mary
Kenneth Keller
She helped develop the computer
language BASIC. Her dissertation
was on “Inductive Interference on
Computer Generated Patterns”. In
1965, she was awarded her PhD in
Computer Science.
- Source: Mental Floss

6. Which woman in tech held a patent on a secret
communication system?

7. Hedy Kiesler Markey
Her Secret Communication System is
Patent No. 2,292, 387, granted in 1942 to
Hedy and composer George Antheil. This
system reduced danger of detection and
jamming of torpedo systems.
- Source: Invent.org

8. Which woman in tech helped form gaming
company Sierra On-Line?

9. Roberta Williams
Along with her husband Ken,
Roberta Williams helped find gaming
legend Sierra On-Line. She is
known for her work on the King’s
Quest series.
- Sources: Sierragamers.com;
Wikipedia

10. Which woman in tech developed the algorithm
behind the Spanning Tree Protocol?

11. Radia Perlman
Her contributions appear in
computer science and networking.
She also gets attributed as The
Mother of the Internet, although she
doesn’t approve of that attribution.
- Source: The Atlantic

12. Which woman in tech is known for her
hardware work in augmented reality?

13. Jeri Ellsworth
From hardware to emulate home
computers if the 1980s to
developing an augmented reality
project called castAR, Ellsworth
is known for her work in the
hardware space.
- Source: Wikipedia

14. Making programming easier and more accessible
http://eniacprogrammers.org

15. What’s the name of the movie about the ladies
computing in World War II?

16. Top Secret Rosies: The
Female ‘Computers’ of
WWII
This documentary talks about the
women who were responsible for the
ballistics tables in World War II and
their role with the ENIAC.
- Source: IMDB

17. Which woman was the lead software engineer
on Project Apollo?

18. Margaret Hamilton
She designed software robust
enough to handle buffer overflows
and cycle-stealing, which was
instrumental in the Apollo 11 lunar
module landing on the moon.
- Source: Medium.com

19. Which female video game designer
worked on River Raid and Super
Breakout?

20. Carol Shaw
Her official title was Microprocessor
Software Engineer. She worked on
the algorithms to create continuous,
non-random landscape.
- Source: Women24

21. Which lady co-founded Apache Mahout, a
platform for scalable machine learning and
data mining?

22. Isabel Drost-Fromm
In addition to committing to Apache Mahout, she also speaks
at conferences on things such as free software, Lucene, and
Hadoop.
- Source: O’Reilly

23. ABI is a social enterprise founded on the belief that
women are vital to building technology that the world
needs.
http://anitaborg.org