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You co-developed a platform that saves lives and supports democracy across the world.
Find out who provides the data for Juliana’s organisation, Ushahidi.
Thank you, Juliana Rotich#IAmAComputerScientist
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Your inventions in displays and imaging are all around us, head mounted displays, live walls, VR and holography.
Find out about Mary Lou’s work at Google, Facebook, MIT and her own companies.
Thank you, Mary Lou Jepsen#IAmAComputerScientist
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You have created a social enterprise that runs hackathons, mentoring and an online platform.
Find out about the Stemettes.
Thank you, Anne-Marie Imafidon#IAmAComputerScientist
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Named “the most important person in advertising”, your tech executive marketing skills drove Google’s rise.
Find out about Susan’s early involvement with Google.
Thank you, Susan Wojcicki#IAmATechExec
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Appointed as the youngest female member of the House of Lords as the Digital Inclusion Champion, you campaign for responsible technology.
Find out what website Martha co-founded.
Thank you, Martha Lane Fox#IAmADigitalActivist
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By founding a mentoring program for women in computing and working with governments and international groups you are driving change to transform African lives.
Where did Dorcas study and what were her specialisms?
Thank you, Dorcas Muthoni#IAmAComputerScientist
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Your code was used to fly rockets and laid the foundations for space shuttle launches.
Find out about Annie’s work in the 1960s.
Thank you, Annie Easley#IAmAComputerScientist
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You developed a programming language that displays images - Lingo.
This work has helped combine art and tech in web design, animation, graphics and video games.
Try a drawing app or processing.js
Thank you, John Henry Thompson#IAmAComputerScientist
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Your research into memory and the development of digital bags that help us keep track of things won’t be forgotten.
Find out about Christine’s research.
Thank you, Christine Farion#IAmAComputerScientist
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For representing young women in technology with governments and multinationals and championing creativity in computing.
What cat-themed game that teaches programming did Schwetal work on?
Thank you, Shwetal Shah#IAmADigitalActivist
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Your work helps babies survive and gives mobility to those with osteoarthritis by combining biology, medicine, engineering and computer science with technology.
Find out how gaming and bioengineering are used in Queen Mary’s Virtual Science Lab.
Thank you, Tina Chowdhury#IAmAComputerScientist
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Your work on ethics and the design of digital media platforms reminds us that search engines can reinforce racism and that algorithms can have gender bias.
Find out about data science and ethics.
Thank you, Safiya Umoja Noble#IAmADigitalResearcher
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If you had not worked out how compilers could make code faster we would have slow programs and harder to read code.Find out about the Turing Award that Fran won.
Thank you, Fran Allen#IAmAComputerScientist
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Without your idea, to use English language words rather than obscure codes in programming languages, coding would be a lot more complicated.What bug did Grace famously find?
Thank you, Grace Hopper#IAmAComputerScientist
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Your work on data mining and visualising information help us see things more clearly.
Find out about Abdigani’s Somali and Somaliland boot camps.
Thank you, Abdigani Diriye#IAmAComputerScientist
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You are saving lives by using your computer science expertise in genetic research. Find out about bioinformatics.
Thank you, Segun Fatumo#IAmAComputerScientist
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For persuading Parliament to save lives by creating infographics that could not be ignored.
Find out what the infographics were about and make your own.
Thank you, Florence Nightingale#IAmAData VisualisationAnalyst
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As a pioneering computer science teacher and Raspberry Pi Director you have championed inclusion and diversity in computing education.
Find out about the Geek Gurl Diaries.
Thank you, Carrie Anne Philbin#IAmAComputerScientist
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Without your contribution our world would not be the same. Laptops, smartphones and cars all use GPS built on your foundational work.
Find out about Gladys’s work on weather satellites.
Thank you, Gladys West#IAmAComputerScientist
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You computed launch windows, emergency return paths and worked on the Space Shuttle program and Mission to Mars plans. Congratulations on the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Find out what John Glenn needed Katherine to do before his 1962 mission.
Thank you, Katherine Johnson#IAmAComputerScientist
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Your maths and computing work on aviation and space programs helped catapult rockets to the moon.
What job brought you back down to earth?
Thank you, Evelyn Boyd Granville#IAmAComputerScientist
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We would not have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi if it was not for your invention of frequency hopping.What else was Hedy famous for?
Thank you, Hedy Lamarr#IAmAComputerScientist
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Without your work on algorithms and maths used in encryption we would not be as safe online.
Congratulations on the Turing Award.
Find out about the ball method of explaining zero knowledge proofs.
Thank you, Shafi Goldwasser#IAmAComputerScientist
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95% of smartphones have the chip that you designed the code for.
What prototype computer did Sophie develop?
Thank you, Sophie Wilson#IAmAComputerScientist
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You put Computational Thinking on the map.
How abstract is that?
Find out about decomposition and algorithmic thinking.
Thank you, Jeannette Wing#IAmAComputerScientist
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You design programming languages. We would not have Object Oriented Programming (OOP) without you.
Congratulations on the Turing Award.
Find out about OOP.
Thank you, Barbara Liskov#IAmAComputerScientist
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For the algorithm that search engines use to help us retrieve what is most relevant.
What is Karen’s famous quote about men and computing?
Thank you, Karen Spärck Jones#IAmAComputerScientist
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For being ahead of your time and predicting that computers would work with music and not just numbers.
Find out how Ada helped Charles Babbage.
Thank you, Ada Lovelace#IAmAComputerScientist
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