List of Influential Women and Nonbinary People in Computing: Quick Facts

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Katherine Johnson performing calculations at her desk at Langley Research Center at NASA

Portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret Carpenter, c. 1836

Grace Hopper working on the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University, 1946

Katherine Johnson, 1966

Margaret Hamilton, 1995

Audrey Tang, 2019

Lynn Conway, 2013

Fei-Fei Li, 2024

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