When I began studying Computer Science back in the 1990s at SUNY Albany, I was usually the only woman in my class.
There were lots of other women in school with me. They just didn’t realize that computer science was a possibility for them — so they never took the classes.
When I look into the eyes of my 3-year old daughter Georgi, and think back to the struggle that women like Ada Lovelace and others have faced in the past two hundred years, it gives me hope that she will have more opportunities, better opportunities, than I or any woman who came before me will.
And that’s something to celebrate.
In the mean time, here’s an excellent article on some of the most important computer scientists of all time.