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She was the first to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation,
and created the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine.
— Wikipedia, Ada Lovelace
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... she participated in the first live music broadcast on the Internet.
— Wikipedia, Anna Karlin (retrieved on 2 July 2017)
  1. Which band was the first to play live on the internet?

    History of the Internet - Severe Tire Damage, The Internet's First Live Band from InterWorking Labs on Vimeo.

  2. Who's on first?

  3. All boys and no girls doesn't make Jack. Where are all the women?

    Historically, women in computing have had an effect on the evolution of the industry, with some of the first programmers during the early 20th century being female.
    • Ada Lovelace was the first person to publish an algorithm intended to be executed by the first modern computer. She and Marie Curie are Ada (Marie) Twist, Scientist’s namesakes.
    • Grace Hopper was the first person to create a compiler for a programming language and one of the first programmers of the Mark I computer.
    • Adele Goldberg was one of the seven programmers that developed Smalltalk in the 1970s, one of the first object-oriented programming languages, the base of the current graphic user interface, that has its roots in the 1968 The Mother of All Demos by Douglas Engelbart.
    • Frances E. Allen (1932–), became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2006, she became the first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award.
    • Anna R. Karlin is an American computer scientist, the Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Karlin's research interests are in the design and analysis of online algorithms and randomized algorithms, which she has applied to problems in algorithmic game theory, system software, distributed computing, and data mining. Karlin was also one of the founding members of the rock music band Severe Tire Damage, and in 1993 as part of the band she participated in the first live music broadcast on the Internet.
    — Wikipedia, mainly Women in computing (retrieved on 17 June 2017)
  4. What is a digital computer?