Timeline of women in computing

• 1842: Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), analyst of Charles Babbage's analytical engine and described as the "first computer programmer"^[13]
  
• 1893: Henrietta Swan Leavitt joins the Harvard computers, a group of women engaged in the production of astronomical data at Harvard; she is instrumental in discovery of the cepheid variable stars, which were evidence for the expansion of the universe.
  
• 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), United States Navy officer and first programmer of the Harvard Mark I, known as the "Mother ofCOBOL". Developed the first ever compiler for an electronic computer known as A-0.
  
• 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)
  
• 1965: Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (1914? - 1985) first American female Doctorate of Computer Science (1965)^[14] [15]
  
• 1972: Karen Spärck Jones (1935–2007), pioneer of information retrieval and natural language processing
  
• 1979: Carol Shaw (?), game designer and programmer for Atari Corp. and Activision
  
• 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 Questseries.
  
• 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.^[16]
  
• 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); founder of Pixel Qi.
  
• 2006: Frances E. Allen (1932-), first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award
  
• 2009: Barbara H. Liskov (1939-), winner of the Turing prize 2009