Irma M. Wyman

The first woman to become Vice President of Honeywell, Inc., Wyman was also the first female CIO of Honeywell and a Systems Thinking tutor (the process of understanding how things influence one...

Laura Niklason

Internationally recognized for pioneering work in vascular and lung tissue engineering, Niklason became the Nicholas M. Greene Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. She is also co-founder, chief executive...

Susan L. Graham

Co-builder of the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool Gprof, Graham is an American computer scientist who has served as the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer...

Regina Honu

Founder of Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa, Honu was a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer who also established Soronko...

Eva Tardos

Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019), Tardos is known as a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of...

Clare-Marie Karat

Author of the "Computer User's Bill of Rights" and creator of a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability, Karat is a leading figure in Human Computer Interaction research....

Laurie Williams

Foremost co-researcher in agile software development and in the security of healthcare IT applications, Williams has served as a Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North...

Ruchi Sanghvi

The first female engineer hired by Facebook, Sanghvi later founded her own company, Cove, in 2011, alongside two co-founders. Dropbox acquired Cove in 2012, and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations,...

Josephine M. Cheng

Developer of IBM's database technology for the web, allowing people to access huge amounts of data via the Internet previously accessible only through proprietary systems, Cheng has been an IBM Fellow (2000)...

Wendy W Hall

Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...

Lucinda (Lucy) M. Sanders

Bell Labs Fellow and CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, Sanders has worked to expand the talent pool in the computing field while building on a...

Fernanda Bertini Viégas

Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...

Tilly Blyth

Curator of Computing and Information at the Science Museum, London, Blyth has been responsible for the national computing collection and has written about the history of British computing. She has also served...

Kathleen (Kathe) Spracklen

Co-programmer of the Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board, Spracklen is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and microcomputer chess pioneer. Born in Grand Rapids,...

Hedwig (Hedy) Eva Maria Lamarr (née Kiesler)

Co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum and frequency hopping, Lamarr paved the way for today's wireless communications. An Austrian actress and inventor, Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was a...

Joy Buolamwini

Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), Buolamwini founded an organization dedicated to challenging bias in decision-making software through art, advocacy, and research. Her work highlighted the social implications and harms of...

Anita Borg

Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...

Diane P. Pozefsky

Leader of the IBM team that developed APPN and AnyNet architectures, which broke the barriers between TCP/IP and SNA networking technologies, Pozefsky was named an IBM Fellow in 1994 in recognition of...

Dorcas Muthoni

Founder of OPENWORLD LTD at the age of 24, Muthoni was a Kenyan entrepreneur and computer scientist who established the software consulting company to advance technology's role in African society. Through her...

Mina Spiegel Rees

Pioneer of federally funded computer research and development and the first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Rees transformed the landscape of postwar American science. She was...