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Articles to work on

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Biographies of computer scientists to create or improve

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  • Donna Hudson - designing and implementing a system called EMERGE.
  • Christel Hamann - Took out a U.S. patent on a Calculating machine in 1903.
  • Christiana Newhaus - Patented an Abacus in 1890.
  • Lydia D. Myers - Patented an Abacus in 1895.
  • Mary E. Winter - Patented an Adding machiene in 1882.
  • Eidth Olson - Major player in the miniaturizing of computers. Career Inorganic Chemist. Devised photographic and lithopgraphic techniques for printed circuits.
  • Margaret Cavanaugh - Programmed Argonne's first scientific computer. (It had about 2 kilobytes of memory)!
  • Betty Holberton - Important in the Moore School Project (was Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton)
  • Betty Jennings - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Frances Spence - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Kay Mauchly - Important in the Moore School Project (Was Kathleen McNulty at the time). Designed necessary new hardware with Richard Clippinger and created modications for the ENIAC for it's original rudimentary storage capacity.
  • Marlyn Wescoff - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Marie Pape-Carpantier - Invented a boulier numérateur, an educational calculator that uses colored balls to make the calculations.
  • Ruth Teitelbaum - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Grace Hopper - Of her many contributions she standardized the programming languages for the US Navy and wrote the first compilier. Primary designer of COBOL programming language.
  • Thelma Estrin - Part of the group at the Institute for Advanced Studies that built computers. One of the IEEE's only female fellows. Huge impact on biomedical computing ventures (particularly as pertaining to the brain). Did research on the electrical activity of the brain.
  • Adele Goldstine - Important in the Moore School Project. Helped write ENIAC's documentation, was ENIAC's first programmer. Taught other women to program (directly or through a manual).
  • Betty Holberton - Important in the Moore School Project (was Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton)
  • Betty Jennings - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Frances Spence - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Kay Mauchly - Important in the Moore School Project (Was Kathleen McNulty at the time). Designed necessary new hardware with Richard Clippinger and created modications for the ENIAC for it's original rudimentary storage capacity.
  • Marlyn Wescoff - Important in the Moore School Project
  • Marie Pape-Carpantier - Invented a boulier numérateur, an educational calculator that uses colored balls to make the calculations.
  • Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), Australian geneticist and mathematician
  • Sarah Ann Douglas, pioneer in field of human-computer interaction, researcher at Xerox PARC; one of first women department heads at AAU institution
  • Joyce Currie Little
  • Doris R. Entwisle
  • Janet Abbate, researcher of computer science
  • Arianna W. Rosenbluth, who helped create/implement the Metropolis algorithm
  • Augusta H. Teller, who helped create/implement the Metropolis algorithm

Biographies of mathematicians to create or improve

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Thanks to WikiProject Women scientists, WikiProject Feminism, User:Gobonobo, and User:Dsp13 for their work to develop this list or lists this draws from.

Categories for existing articles

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Association for Women in Mathematics

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Louise Hay Award

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See Louise Hay Award.

M. Gweneth Humphreys Award

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See M. Gweneth Humphreys Award

AWM Service Award

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AWM-Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry

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AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory

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AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis

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see Sadosky_Prize

AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer

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AWM/MAA Falconer Lecture

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See AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer

Presidents of AWM

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All presidents of the AWM have Wikipedia pages but many of them are STUBS and hardly any have ratings as "B-class" pages. Also many pages do not have photos.

Open resources

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See also

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