1. Women and Computer Science Brittany LaneEnglish 1105 Instructor E. OwensAugust 2, 2011

2. In this presentation: ENIAC Girls Grace Hopper Sister Mary Kenneth Keller Gender Gap Conclusion

4. Set up the University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC machine

5. ENIAC was one of the world’s first electronic computers

6. “…Women are ‘naturals’ at computer programming” - Grace Hopper Image from Gender News

8. Was the third person to work on IBM's Harvard Mark I computer

9. Conceived the idea of a computer code compiler in the 1950’s

10. Hopper's compiler allowed computer programmers to write computer code in an easier to understand process

11. Her program “Flow-Matic” was the first English language data-processing compiler

12. She became Admiral Grace Hopper in 1985

13. Retired in 1986Image from The Ada Project

15. Was one of the first women to receive a PhD in computer science in the United States

16. She participated in the development of BASIC

17. She founded the Computer Science Department at Clarke CollegeImage from The Ada Project

18. The Gender Gap "Women earned only 18% of all Computer Science degrees and made up less than 25% of the workers in engineering- and computer-related fields in 2009“- Fisk

20. “…Women are ‘naturals’ at computer programming” - Grace Hopper

21. They may make an impact on technology, like Grace Hopper and Sister Mary Kenneth Keller.