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FAMOUS WOMEN IN ICT

Ms Funke Opeke- CEO, Main One Cable Company

The ICT industry provides endless opportunities for Africans to advance their careers and although it is still largely male-dominated, the following women have made great strides in changing the face of the industry on the continent.

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Nombulelo was appointed Telkom SA CEO in March 2011 after a lengthy evaluation process. She became the first black woman to

head up a JSE listed telecommunications company in South Africa

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Susan Decker (1963 - )

Who: Former President of Yahoo!

What: In 2005 was the 2nd highest paid female executive in the USA ($24.3 million).  Graduated from university with a BSc in Computer Science & Economics

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recipient of the Fulkerson Prize in 1988 for her paper "A strongly polynomial minimum cost circulation algorithm". She is a professor and chair of the Computer Science department at Cornell University. For more information

EVA TARDOS

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Jean E. Sammet (1928)

mathematician and computer scientist; developed FORMAC programming language. She spent 27 years at IBM where she developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas. She was also a member of the subcommittee which created COBOL.

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Shafi Goldwasser

theoretical computer scientist, two-time recipient of the Godel Prize. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Goldwasser's research areas include complexity theory, cryptography and computational number theory. For more information

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Carly Fiorina

was a chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2000-2005 and CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999-2005. She was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine from 1998-2003. Currently she is a director at the Revolution Health Group and is on the board of Cybertrust, a large computer security firm.

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Meg Whitman

has been the CEO of the popular online auction site eBay since March 1998 taking the company from fewer than 100 employees to over 9,000 employees world wide. Meg also was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine in 2004.

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Anita Borg

Anita Borg died sadly in April of 2003 from brain cancer at the age of 54. Beginning in 1997, the institute was supported and funded by Xerox. Her goals for the institute were threefold:

bring non-technical women into the design process encourage more women to become scientists and help the industry, academia, and the government accelerate these changes.

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Frances E. Allen

is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. She was also the first female recipient of the ACM'S Turing Award in 2006. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization.

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Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Jennings, and Fran Bilas

original programmers of the ENIAC. ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

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Augusta Ada King

is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Over one hundred years after her death, in 1953, Ada Lovelace's notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine were republished after being forgotten. The engine now has been recognized as an early model for a computer and Ada Lovelace's notes as a description of a computer and software. On December 10, 1980, (Ada's birthday), the U.S. Defense Department approved the reference manual for its new computer programming language and named it after her, "Ada".

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Grace Murray Hopper

was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language

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Erna Schneider

in 1954, after teaching for a number of years at Swarthmore College, she began a research career at Bell Laboratories. While there, she invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic, to replace existing hard-wired, mechanical switching equipment. For this ground-breaking achievement -- the principles of which are still used today -- she was awarded one of the first software patents ever issued (Patent #3,623,007, Nov. 23, 1971). At Bell Labs, she became the first female supervisor of a technical department.