Women in Tech

Whitney Wolfe Herd created her female friendly dating app, Bumble, after working at which company?

• Tinder

• OkCupid

• SnapChat

• TikTok

Answer explanation

In February 2021, Wolfe Herd became the world's youngest, female, self-made billionaire when she took Bumble public.

She was previously the vice-president of marketing for Tinder.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

• The inventor of the computer mouse

• The founder of Tinder

• The first computer programmer

Answer explanation

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine.

Hollywood film actress Hedy Lamarr invented the pre-cursor to what modern day tech in her spare time?

• Aircraft

• Bluetooth

• Wifi

• Search Engines

Answer explanation

At the beginning of WWII, Hedy Lamarr and the composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes. The US Navy didn’t adopt the technology but the principles were incorporated in Bluetooth, GPS and Wifi technologies .

Who was Katherine Johnson?

• The wife of Boris Johnson

• A NASA scientist

• The inventor of the dishwasher

Answer explanation

Katherine Johnson helped pioneer the use of computers to perform calculation tasks.

The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".

What did Grace Hopper create?

• FORTRAN

• Matlab

• CSS

• Flow-Matic

Answer explanation

Grace Hopper was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I (computer used in the WWII) computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. She also popularized the term “debugging”. The Flow-Matic progra

ming language is the base to COBOL which is still used today.

Which female was awarded the first Computer Scientist 'Man of the Year' award?

(a)  

Answer explanation

Katherine Johnson (the NASA scientist) was bestowed with the very first Computer Science Man of the Year Award in 1969.

What is 291387 Katiebouman?

(a)  

Answer explanation

Katie Bouman (born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of computer imagery. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes and was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope team that captured the first image of a black hole.

In 2021, asteroid 291387 Katiebouman was named after her.

Who is called "The Mother of the Internet"?

• Katherine Johnson

• Ada Lovelace

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Radia Perlman

Answer explanation

Radia Perlman is a leader in the field of computer science, developing the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), an innovation that made today's Internet possible.

Who invented the first computer dating service?

• Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie

• Joan Ball

• Sean Rad

Answer explanation

Joan Ball was a computer dating pioneer who started the first computer dating service in England, in 1964. It's group of men at Harvard that is credited for the first computerized dating service known as ‘Operation Match.’ But it was Joan Ball who first found a way to determine the compatibility of this service using a computer.

What is ENIAC?

(a)  

Answer explanation

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first computer ever built. In 1946, six women programmed this electronic computer as part of a secret World War II project. Inventor John Mauchly is often the only one who gets credit for its creation, but the programmers are the ones who fully developed the machine.