Real Geeks, Name Her:

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[MonkeyFunk]

1. Grace Hopper?

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3. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper - You get the uber geek award

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2. I would have said Delia Derbyshire at the BBC

but that's not a Synthi 100...

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4. You're right

It isn't Delia Derbyshire

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5. Burn!

:P :)

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6. Grace Hopper - Creator of COBOL

:hi:


http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html


The new discipline of computing and the sciences that depend upon it have led the way in making space for women's participation on an equal basis. That was in some ways true for Grace Murray Hopper, and it is all the more true for women today because of Hopper's work.

Grace Brewster Murray graduated from Vassar with a B.A. in mathematics in 1928 and worked under algebraist Oystein Ore at Yale for her M.A. (1930) and Ph.D. (1934). She married Vincent Foster Hopper, an educator, in 1930 and began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931. She had achieved the rank of associate professor in 1941 when she won a faculty fellowship for study at New York University's Courant Institute for Mathematics.

Hopper had come from a family with military traditions, thus it was not surprising to anyone when she resigned her Vassar post to join the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) in December 1943. She was commissioned a lieutenant in July 1944 and reported to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University, where she was the third person to join the research team of professor (and Naval Reserve lieutenant) Howard H. Aiken. She recalled that he greeted her with the words, "Where the hell have you been?" and pointed to his electromechanical Mark I computing machine, saying "Here, compute the coefficients of the arc tangent series by next Thursday."

[billyskank]

10. I don't think that the creation of COBOL was a good thing.

x(

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15. Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee

A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

—Dutch proverb

Quoted in "The Mythical Man-Month; Essays on Software Engineering"

[IronLionZion]

7. LOL, She won "man of the year" in 1969!

Ah, the 60's. I wonder how long it took them to figure out that women can be pretty damn amazing too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

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8. Ok, another challenge. Name her:

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9. I'll guess Lady Ada Lovelace

since we're on the subject, and there is a certain Byronesque quality to the painting. Plus you left "FirstProgrammer" in the jpg name (hey, geeks will look that kind of thing up ... )

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11. Very good

I didn't leave it there; I put it there just for the geeks. :hi:

The original picture had her full name...

[IronLionZion]

12. That's Ada Lovelace

also known as the Countess of Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm intended for a computer.

All up in it loving it strong!

[IronLionZion]

13. nuts, I guess muriel got it already. nt

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14. Try this one:

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16. Hint: She's not a programmer.

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17. Hint2: She's pretty spacey

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18. Hint 3: Maybe you'll recognize her in her work clothes:

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19. Valentina Tereshkova?

I thought it might be after the second hint, but I'll give it a shot anyway, right or wrong.

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20. Absolutely Correct!

Валентина Владимировна Терешкова

After the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, the head Soviet rocket engineer, came up with the idea of putting a woman in space. On 16 February 1962, Valentina Tereshkova was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: Tatiana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yerkina, Valentina Ponomareva, and Tereshkova. Qualifications included that they be parachutists under 30 years of age, under 170 cm tall, and under 70 kg in weight. .

Tereshkova was considered a particularly worthy candidate, partly due to her "proletarian" background, and because her father, tank leader, sergeant Vladimir Tereshkov had died as a war hero in the Finnish Winter War during World War II in the Lemetti area in Finnish Karelia. Tereshkova was two years old at the time of her father's death. After her mission she was asked about how the Soviet Union should thank her for her service to the country. Tereshkova asked the state to search and publish the location where her father was killed in action. This was done and a monument is now standing at the site in Lemetti—now on the Russian side of the border. Tereshkova has since visited Finland several times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova