Women in technology

This month women are recognized throughout the world, and although they are a minority in the field of technology, they always play a very important role in projecting a future in innovations and encouraging the incorporation into technology careers.

The technology sector is growing five times faster than any other industry and a greater increase is expected in the near and continuous future.

What is intended today is to ensure the real place of women in the labor and social aspect, this path was opened by many of us which today I want to mention and remember, because many of us who like the technology.

The first woman who occupied and was recognized in computing and technology was Ada Lovelace, who was named as the Mother of Computer programming and designed a mechanical analytical machine, capable of calculating algebraic functions.

Edith Clarke. She patented a graphing calculator that solved electrical transmission problems, she was the first American electrical engineer and the first professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (United States).

Hedy Lamarr. Famous Hollywood actress and inventor. He created a wireless missile system that inspired Wi-Fi.

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, known as Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian film actress and inventor. She was the inventor of the first version of the spread spectrum that would allow long-distance wireless communications.

“Top secret rosies”. The ENIAC, the first electronic computer, was programmed by six American mathematicians.

Angela Ruiz Robles. Great Spanish inventor who developed the mechanical encyclopedia, the forerunner of the ‘ebook’, the electronic book.

Grace Murray Hopper. Rear Admiral of the US Navy and forerunner of the COBOL computer language.

Jean E. Sammet. He worked at IBM for 27 years and promoted the FORMAC programming language, the first for symbolic manipulation.

Mary Kenneth Keller. Sister Keller was the first woman to earn a doctorate in Computing and contributed significantly to the development of BASIC, she is considered one of the mothers of technology.

Margaret Heafield Hamilton. She is a computer scientist, mathematician, and systems engineer. From MIT, he led the team that developed the Apollo Space Program navigation software.

Shirley Ann Jackson. She was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT. He developed fax, tone dialing, and fiber optics.

Radia Perlman. She is considered the mother of the Internet and her greatest contribution was the creation of the STP protocol. It is still active.

Carol Shaw. The first video game designer. He worked for mythical companies, like Atari.

Our recognition of their example of these wonderful and brilliant women who will be for many of the girls and women a route to travel since they will have equal conditions, and that all people know that gender does not matter, when it comes to working and bring knowledge to the world.

The new generations will break stereotypes of the technology sector in society and the presence of women in the technological world will be a real increase; Because we all, women and men, need diversity of vision, action and thought. Only then will we generate wealth and move forward to make this a futuristic world.

Happy Monday and let’s continue taking care of ourselves, with the recommendations that you provide us.

Courage, luck and a lot of strength!

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