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Do you know what the ladies from the photos have in common? They were all pioneers in technology! On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we want to introduce you to the profiles of 3 heroines who are particularly close to our industry;) Ada Lovelace is known primarily for her publications on Charles Babbage's mechanical computer, known as the analytical machine. Her work includes notes, containing the first published algorithm written with the intention of being executed on a machine. For this reason, she is called the first developer! At a time when girls' education was not common, she successfully combined her passion for mathematics, which her mother had infected her with, with her love for poetry (after all, she was the daughter of Lord Byron;)) Hedy Lamarr was an actress and producer in the Golden Age of Hollywood. In her spare time, she experimented and created innovations! After a German submarine torpedoed a British ship carrying children in September 1940, Lamarr and her friend composer George Antheil decided to develop a torpedo control system using radio waves, which we now refer to as the FHSS. An improved invention, with a different purpose than the original one, was introduced to use by the US Navy in the 1960s, and due to its military use, it was classified until the mid-1980s. Its variants have become part of the commonly used radio networks of the IEEE 802.11 and GSM standards. Margaret Hamilton was for many years director of software engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory. Together with her team, she developed the software for the onboard space program "Apollo". From 1959, she worked on programming the first computers, becoming one of the pioneers in this field. Photo 1. Hedy Lamarr Photo 2. Ada Lovelace Photo 3. Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of the navigation program code she and her MIT team wrote for the Apollo Project. #technology #programming #developers #WomeninScience