I frequently have need of a list of women whose technical work I admire, so I finally decided to list some of them here. I'm not going to do all of your homework for you; you'll need to look them up yourself. Most of the older ones are fairly obvious names, and have Wikipedia pages. A few aren't famous...yet.
- Fran Bilas
- Anne Broadbent
- kc claffy
- Lynn Conway
- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
- Deborah Estrin
- Elizabeth Smith Friedman
- Yvonne Gao
- Mary Hall
- Margaret Hamilton
- Betty Holberton
- Grace Hopper
- Mary Jackson
- Mae Jemison
- Betty Jean Jennings
- Katherine Johnson
- Kanchana Kanchanasut
- Elham Kashefi
- Hedy Lamar
- Ruth Lichterman
- Barbara Liskov
- Ada Lovelace
- Margaret Martonosi
- Kay McNulty
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Mio Murao
- Kae Nemoto
- Emmy Noether
- Poppy Northcutt
- Keiko Okawa
- Jennifer Rexford
- Sally Ride
- Jacquiline Romero
- Mary Shaw
- Eve Schooler
- Donna Strickland
- Dorothy Vaughn
- Marlyn Wescoff
- Suzanne Woolf
- Lixia Zhang
- and, of course, my own women students and colleagues!
Note that, of course (as with men), it's possible for someone to do amazing, important technical work but still not be a good person. However, of the ones here I know personally, I will say I admire almost all of them as people as well as scientists/technologists.
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