Women who should have won: The Turing Award

The Turing Award is generally regarded as the highest honor in computer science. In more than 50 years, only three women have won: Frances Allen, Barbara Liskov, and Shafi Goldwasser, but plenty of brilliant women computer scientists were overlooked:

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a trailblazing mathematician who was one of the first programmers to work with the Harvard Mark I computer in the 1940s. 

Read more about Hopper on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/grace-hopper/

Dr. Gladys West created the Global Positioning System that most of us use to get from place to place. 

Read more about West on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/gladys-west/

In addition to being a major advocate for gender equality in tech, Maria Klawe’s done work in a variety of fields, including theoretical computer science, human-computer interaction, gender issues in information technology and interactive-multimedia for mathematics education.