Women in Computer Science

Which woman is known for her pioneering work on virtual memory and her contributions to the development of the B5000 computer?

• a) Grace Hopper

• b) Adele Goldstine

• c) Frances Allen

• d) Jean Bartik

Who is often referred to as the "Queen of Software" for her role in developing the COBOL programming language?

• a) Ada Lovelace

• b) Grace Hopper

• c) Jean Bartik

• d) Betty Snyder Holberton

Who is recognized for her work on artificial intelligence and the development of the computer program, "Logic Theorist"?

• a) Adele Goldberg

• b) Karen Spärck Jones

• c) Lynn Conway

• d) Allen Newell

Who is recognized for her work on the development of the programming language ALGOL W and her contributions to compiler design?

• a) Jean Bartik

• b) Karen Spärck Jones

• c) Adele Goldberg

• d) Betty Snyder Holberton

Who is recognized for her work on parallel processing and her contributions to the development of the IBM SP2 supercomputer?

• a) Radia Perlman

• b) Lynn Conway

• c) Adele Goldstine

• d) Fran Allen

Which woman is known for her work on the development of the ENIAC, one of the earliest electronic general-purpose computers?

• a) Adele Goldstine

• b) Jean Sammet

• c) Grace Hopper

• d) Kathleen Antonelli

Which woman is known for her contributions to the development of the programming language COBOL and her work on the UNIVAC I computer?

• a) Adele Goldstine

• b) Grace Hopper

• c) Karen Spärck Jones

• d) Betty Holberton

Which woman is known for her work on computer networking and the invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)?

• a) Radia Perlman

• b) Adele Goldstine

• c) Karen Spärck Jones

• d) Susan Kare

Who is recognized for her work on natural language processing and her contributions to machine translation research?

• a) Karen Spärck Jones

• b) Adele Goldstine

• c) Radia Perlman

• d) Susan Kare

Who is recognized for her work on the development of the first programming language compiler, the A-0 System, and the development of COBOL?

• a) Grace Hopper

• b) Frances Allen

• c) Ada Lovelace

• d) Betty Snyder Holberton