Ada Lovelace: World’s First Programmer
She saw that computers could work with more than numbers, envisioning creative applications long before modern machines and helping establish the foundations of programming.
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Margaret Hamilton, the Woman Behind the Moon Landing
Her team’s software kept an overloaded spacecraft computer focused on landing, helping protect a historic mission and establish new standards for reliable software engineering.
Admiral “Amazing Grace” Hopper, pioneering computer programmer
She helped make computer programming more accessible through readable instructions, transforming how people communicated with machines and opening new possibilities for building software.