Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Forefront of information warfare, security, and cryptography fields

Adele Mildred Koss
Developed the first compilers

Esther Dyson
A powerful thinker in the computing industry!

Dr. Anita Borg
Founder of Systers

Margaret H. Hamilton
Founder of Higher Order Software

Dr. Ruth M. Davis
Distinguished in government service

Dr. Thelma Estrin
Professor of computer science at UCLA

Jean Sammet
1989 Lovelace Award Recipient

The 1989 Lovelace award was given to Jean Sammet, one of the early pioneers in computing. She was involved in the development of Cobol and at the IBM Scientific Center in Cambridge developed Formac, an early algebraic language. She also provided the best history of programming languages in her book, Programming languages: history and fundamentals. 

Further biographical information

Programming languages: history and fundamentals 
by Jean E. Sammet., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1969] 
xxx, 785 p. illus. 24 cm.
18.00
English
Call letters: QA76.5 .S213
LCCN: 68028110 
Dewey Decimal: 651.8