Woman founders of IT -
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Pecha Kucha format 20 slides 20 seconds recounts concrete inventions: Ada Lovelace writes a program in 1842 to compute Bernoulli numbers and dies in 1852 with recognition arriving in 1963; Hedy Lamarr patents spread‑spectrum based on 24 frequencies that later underpins Wi‑Fi, GPS and Bluetooth and enters a hall of fame in 2014; Grace Hopper builds the first compiler and births COBOL, coins the term “bug”; recognition for these contributions often arrives decades later.
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