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Post about interesting women who are part of our human history, not necessarily military, but perhaps ones not in everyday history books.
CAPT (Ret) Sunita Williams, USN, USNA ‘87
Or Countess Lovelace, often called the world’s first computer programmer, from the 1800’s.
CAPT (Ret) Sunita Williams, USN, USNA ‘87
Sunita L. Williams - NASA
Sunita (Suni) L. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two space missions, Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. She is
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Or Countess Lovelace, often called the world’s first computer programmer, from the 1800’s.
Ada Lovelace | Biography, Computer, & Facts
Ada Lovelace, English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose digital computer prototype, the Analytical Engine, she created a program in 1843. She has been called the first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day, the second Tuesday in October, honors women’s contributions to...
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