1960s Software engineering Credited by NASA with coming up with the term ‘ software engineering ’, Margaret Hamilton led a team that developed the in-flight software for the Apollo missions and Skylab . Hamilton worked on software development for Apollo 11 , the first spacecraft to complete a successful mission that placed humans on the moon in 1969 .
1965 The first women with a PhD in computer science Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to receive a Ph . D . in Computer Science . Creating the programming language BASIC – opening the door for anyone to learn programming – Keller went on to advocate for the use of computers in education and to encourage women to get involved in computer science .
1984 STP : The foundation of the internet Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree protocol ( STP ), one of the foundations of the Internet as we know it today . Perlman holds over 100 issued patents and is the recipient of awards including Lifetime Achievement awards from Usenix and the Association for Computing Machinery . In 2014 , she was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame .
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