Ada Lovelace Women have been programming since before it was a thing. Take Ada Lovelace : Daughter of Lord Byron, she's often credited as the first computer programmer. Her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine contains notes of the first machine-implemented algorithm. The First Computer Code named "Project PX" and funded by the United States Army, the first general-purpose computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC). It was developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. ... And The Women Who Made It Work The ENIAC programmers included a number of women: Jean Bartik, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum, Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Frances Spence, and Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton. Despite their groundbreaking work, the Army never released the names of the women who worked on the ENIAC, and they were largely forgotten until Kathy Kleiman discovered their story in 1985. Edith Clarke: Bucking The Trend There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work. Rózsa Péter: The Poet of Recursion Hungarian-born Rózsa Péter studied number theory and poetry before becoming interested in the idea that would become recursion theory. She published her paper "Recursive Functions" in 1951, but it wasn't until the mid-50's that she began to apply her work to the realm of computers. Grace Hopper Invents The Compiler In her career with the Navy, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper worked on the first commercial computer (UNIVAC) and laid the groundwork for the programming language COBOL. But her most notable invention was the compiler, which can transform a source language into binary code. (In other words, it can translate the code you and I write into 0s and 1s.) She developed it in 1952, but she said "Nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic." Contributions To Space Exploration One of the first African-American women to earn a Ph.D in mathematics, Evelyn Boyd Granville focused on aeronautics and space during her career. In 1956, she worked with NASA and IBM on Project Mercury, the first manned space flight. She worked with NASA again a few years later on the Apollo Project. The First PHD in Computer Science One of the first women (if not the first woman) to earn a Ph.D in computer science, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller also contributed to the development of the BASIC language during her time at Dartmouth College. She then founded the computer science department at Clarke College and directed it for the next 20 years. Karen Spärck Jones Makes Search Possible A professor at Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Spärck Jones was interested in natural language processing and information retrieval. In 1972, she introduced the concept of inverse document frequency, which most search engines still rely on. "The Mother of the Internet" Often called "the Mother of the Internet," Radia Perlman's work on spanning tree protocol enabled the development of modern networking. She holds more than 100 patents, which is what mothers do best. Ancient Olympic Games The first written evidence of the official Games dates from 776 BC, when the Greeks began measuring time in Olympiads, or the duration between each edition of the Olympic Games. The first Olympic Games were held every four years in honour of the god Zeus. From then on, a number of artistic activities such as music, singing, poetry and theatre were organised at the Pythian or Delphic Games (a separate event to the Games held in Olympia), linking culture and sport right from the beginning of the Games. Ban of Olympic Games In 393 AD, the Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned the Olympic Games for religious reasons, claiming that they encouraged paganism. They were not revived until the modern era. Olympic Games Revived in Paris A number of initiatives to re-establish an international sporting event were attempted at the end of the 19th century, but failed due to the lack of coordination among the worldwide sporting movement - until one man decided to bring the main stakeholders together in Paris. The Olympic Games were therefore revived at the first Olympic Congress, organised by Baron Pierre de Coubertin and held at the Grand Amphitheatre at the Sorbonne University from 16 to 23 June 1894. Two thousand people attended, including 58 French delegates representing 24 sports organisations and clubs, and 20 delegates from Belgium, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States representing 13 foreign sports federations. First Modern Olympic Games The first Olympic Games of the modern era took place in Athens, in the country where the original Games took place in Antiquity, in April 1896. Women Competed for the First Time in the Olympic Games Paris hosted the second Games in 1900. The Paris 1900 Olympic Games saw women compete for the first time. The first female Olympic champion was Charlotte Cooper, a British tennis player who won Wimbledon five times. Out of a total of 997 athletes, 22 were women, competing in just five sports: tennis , sailing , croquet, equestrian events and golf . First Olympic Games Open to Athletes with Disabilities The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis (Missouri) were the first to distribute gold, silver and bronze medals, and also included the first known disabled athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, George Eyser. He won six medals in gymnastics, three of which were gold. First Olympic Games with Athletes from Five Continents The Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 were the first to include competitors from all five continents represented by the Olympic rings. It was also the year that women made their debut in the swimming events.