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Timeline of women in computing

 * 1842: Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), analyst of Charles Babbage's analytical engine and described as the "first computer programmer"
 * 1942: Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000), Hollywood diva and co-inventor of an early form of spread-spectrum broadcasting
 * 1943: WREN Colossus operators, during WW2 at Bletchley Park
 * 1946: Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman, original programmers of the ENIAC
 * 1949: Grace Hopper (1906–1992), first programmer for the Mark I Calculator, known as the "Mother of COBOL"
 * 1962: Jean E. Sammet (1928-), mathematician and computer scientist; developed FORMAC programming language. Was the first to write extensively about history and categorisation of programming languages (1969).
 * 1965: Mary Allen Wilkes computer programmer; First person to use a computer in a private home and the first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer (LINC)
 * 1968: Barbara H. Liskov (1939-), first American female Doctorate of Computer Science (1968)
 * 1972: Karen Spärck Jones (1935–2007), pioneer of information retrieval and natural language processing
 * 1983: Adele Goldberg (1945-), one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language
 * 1984: Roberta Williams (1953-), pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the King's Quest series.
 * 1984: Susan Kare (1954-), created the icons and many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s, was an original employee of NeXT, working as the Creative Director.
 * 1985: Radia Perlman (1951-), invented the Spanning Tree Protocol. Has done extensive and innovative research, particularly on encryption and networking. USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award 2007, among numerous others.
 * 1985: Irma Wyman (~1927-), first Honeywell CIO
 * 1986: Hannah Smith "Girlie tipster" for CRASH (magazine)
 * 1988: Eva Tardos (1957-), recipient of the Fulkerson Prize for her research on design and analysis of algorithms
 * 1993: Shafi Goldwasser (1958-), theoretical computer scientist, two-time recipient of the Gödel Prize for research on complexity theory, cryptography and computational number theory, and the invention of zero-knowledge proofs
 * 1993: Barbara Liskov together with Jeannette Wing develops the Liskov substitution principle
 * 1994: Sally Floyd (~1953-), most renowned for her work on Transmission Control Protocol
 * 1996: Xiaoyuan Tu (1967-), first female recipient of the ACM's Doctoral Dissertation Award.
 * 1997: Anita Borg (1949–2003), the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
 * 2004: Jeri Ellsworth (1974-), self-taught computer chip designer and creator of the C64 Direct-to-TV
 * 2005: Mary Lou Jepsen (1965-), Founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
 * 2006: Frances E. Allen (1932-), first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award

Organizations for women in computing

 * Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Committee on Women
 * Association for Women in Computing
 * AWISE - Australian Women in IT and Science entity
 * APC WNSP - Association for Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme
 * BCSWomen, a women-only Specialist Group of the British Computer Society
 * Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing research
 * Debian Women
 * IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)
 * Feminist Approach to Technology
 * LinuxChix, a women-oriented community in the open source movement
 * DevChix, group for female developers/programmers
 * National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), USA
 * Girl Geek Dinners - an International group for women of all ages