Passed away in September 2022 at age 100. I just found out about this in a recent newsletter from my alma mater. She and her husband Andrew taught there for 10 years, but left a year before I started to attend. No doubt, their prior work there had significant impact on what I learned.
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There are more women in computer history than people think. The woman that coined the term “bug” comes to mind. I once met a woman that worked on the Apollo 13 problem of transferring the guidance system from the command module to the LEM, something they had never even simulated before.
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In France the 10th of march is Right women day and what comes to my mind is the Marie Curie answer to a journalist :
- journalist: “What’s it like to be married to a genius?”
- marie curie: “Ask my husband.”
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Grace Hopper - Wikipedia (see anecdote section)
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That’s her!
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It’s unfortunate that she was unaware of the danger of the work she was doing. Her husband later met an untimely end as well. 
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