Contributors to Computer Science

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	Contributor achievement date	Contributor achievement	Birth date	Birth place	Death date	Personal association
Ada Lovelace	1 August 1843	Ada's translation and Notes on the analytical engine are published	10 December 1815	London, United Kingdom	27 November 1852	england female
Barbara Liskov	1 January 2008	Her work was recognized with the Turing Award―the highest distinction in computer science. She pioneered contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. She created the Liskov substitution principle. She was one of the earliest women to have been granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States.	7 November 1939	Los Angeles CA		female usa
Betty Holberton	10 December 1945	One of the original programmers for the ENIAC	7 March 1917	Philadelphia, PA, USA	8 December 2001	female usa
Fran Bilas	10 December 1945	One of the original programmers for the ENIAC	2 March 1922	Philadelphia, PA, USA	18 July 2012	female usa
Grace Hopper	29 March 1944	One of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer	6 December 1906	New York City, NY, USA	1 January 1992	female usa
Jean Bartik	10 December 1945	One of the original programmers for the ENIAC	27 December 1924	Alanthus Grove, Missouri, USA	23 March 2011	female usa
Kathleen Antonelli	10 December 1945	One of the original programmers for the ENIAC	12 February 1921	County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland	20 April 2006	female ireland usa
Marlyn Meltzer	10 December 1945	One of the original programmers for the ENIAC	1 January 1922	Philadelphia, PA, USA	7 December 2008	female jewish usa
Ruth Teitelbaum	10 December 1945	One of the original programmers for the ENIAC	1 January 1924	Unknown	1 January 1986	female jewish
Steve Shirley	17 May 1962	Shirley founded a predominantly women software development program in the 60s, changed her name to "Steve" in hopes of receiving replies back from her marketing emails.	16 September 1933	Dortmund, Germany		female germany