The first programmer in history was the daughter of Lord Byron
Although modern university on a specialty connected with computer, statistically dominated by men, many of the pioneers of automated calculations were women.
At the dawn of its existence, a large part of what we now call computer science, has been theoretical, and few could imagine that the machine will soon be able to perform calculations on their own, without the help of man.
One of the earliest representatives of computing was the adding machine of Charles Babbage. It was Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, the great writer, and she presented a potential algorithm to work on it. Her mathematical abilities were assessed, and it became a pioneer among women in the field of technology, engineering and mathematics. Her collaboration with Babbage also provides her with honor considered the first computer programmer. In her honor called modern programming language ADA, although it is tiny tribute, given its role in the history of science as the first programmer.
From Wikipedia:
«In 1842, Charles Babbage was invited to the University of Turin to hold a seminar about his Analytical Engine. Luigi Menabrea, the young Italian engineer, and future Prime Minister of Italy, recorded a lecture in French, and it was subsequently published in the Public Library of Geneva in October of the same year. Babbage asked the Countess of Lovelace translated Menabrea records into English and accompanied by a text commentary. Lady Lovelace spent more than a year on the job, after which the works were published under the acronym AAL and were more extensive than Menabrea records. In one of his comments Hell describes an algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers on the Analytical Engine. It was recognized that it was the first program specifically implemented for playback on a computer, and for this reason Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, despite the fact that Babbage's machine was never constructed during the life of Ada. »
Blockquote> Later, during the Second World War, when the calculations become more and more necessary to break and create a code to calculate the various tasks and the algorithms used in programming early vacuum tube computers, it has been involved a group of brilliant women mathematicians. But their names have been forgotten because of the characteristic of the era of discrimination and sexism.
A more recent development of wireless data was created by a woman named Hedy Lamarr patented it as a concept of cryptographic protection of wireless networks. This means that the signal intercepted by hackers, can not be decrypted, which makes wireless data transmission is much better protected.
Even women who are interested in computer science and engineering sciences, are less likely to get a job in this area than men. But we hope that this will change soon.
via factroom.ru
