The Women Who Made Computing History

When we talk about computing and technology, we think of a purely male world, but that is not quite the case. We have to thank some very important women whose names will probably mean nothing to you, but who helped make computing and online communication what we all know today.

The first in chronological order is Ada Lovelace Byron, daughter of the famous poet, who as early as the mid-1800s contributed to the creation of the first program in the history of computing, as well as leaving us numerous written theories about the future of technology. Ada was sure that computers would become an integral part of our daily lives.

Grace Murray Hopper was the first to create a machine-independent programming language, closer to natural human language, giving birth to COBOL, which many banking software systems still use today. She was also the first to use the term "bug", commonly used even today as a synonym for a computer error.

Hedy Lamarr was a breathtakingly beautiful actress and model who lived in the last century, but she was also an engineering student who helped create a remote guidance system for torpedoes, which we could consider an ancestor of WiFi, since they are based on the same concept of frequency hopping.

Radia Perlman, known as "the mother of the internet", dedicated her studies entirely to the development of the STP protocol: one of the pillars of the web, a communication protocol without which computers and servers could not connect and the Internet could not exist.

These are only a few of the many female names who made computing history, and we thought it appropriate to remember these talented women today, 8 March, on the international day dedicated to them.

Happy Women's Day to all from the NewVisibility team!