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August 28, 2018
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller: The First Woman (and Nun!) to Earn a CS PhD
As the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller paved the way for…
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May 22, 2018
Hedy Lamarr: Brains Before Beauty
Most of us don’t go a day without using Wi-Fi, GPS, or Bluetooth – but chances are you didn’t…
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April 10, 2018
Leveling the Playing Field with Video Game Pioneer Carol Shaw
Many of us grew up playing video games, but how often do we think about the people who make…
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March 8, 2018
Celebrate Women in STEM for International Women’s Day
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and there is so much to celebrate when it comes to women’s accomplishments…
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January 9, 2018
Taking Moonshot Initiatives with Mae Jemison
Imagine a life without modern medicine, a road trip without the voice of a GPS, or a day without…
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December 19, 2017
The ENIAC Programmers: ‘Refrigerator Ladies’ No More
When historians first found photos of the women who coded instructions for ENIAC, the first all-electronic digital computer, they…
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November 7, 2017
Radia Perlman: A Pioneer Many Times Over
It takes a brilliant mind to pioneer an algorithm crucial to the functionality of the internet – and lots…
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October 10, 2017
Frances Allen: Fusing Passions into a Career
When coding, you probably don’t think about the code behind the code – but that’s exactly what Frances “Fran”…
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September 26, 2017
The Art of Maryam Mirzakhani’s Mathematics
When we think of math, most of us don’t immediately draw a connection to painting. But to mathematician Maryam…
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