Tech Lady Tuesdays

Tech Lady Tuesday – NASA Rejects

NASA’s response letter to women applying for astronaut, 1962. pic.twitter.com/JDEBzD5lpT — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) October 28, 2013 This did not go out yesterday as hoped. Anyhow – this AMAZING submission was sent to me by my co-worker Jeremy Bowker. Basically, women were not cool enough to be astronauts and not even worth “contemplating”. So … Continue reading

Tech Lady Tuesday ~ Real, Honest-to-Goodness Tech Lady!
Tech Lady Tuesdays

Tech Lady Tuesday ~ Real, Honest-to-Goodness Tech Lady!

Grace Murray Hopper (later Rear Admiral Hopper), was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern languages. She popularized the term “debugging” … Continue reading