8 extraordinary women who changed the history of computer science and engineering

A pharmacist and researcher in the area of vision protection and prevention, in 2009 she invented a system for authenticating identity through corneal recognition.

The eye is considered one of the most reliable parts of the body for biometric authentication because the cornea, which covers the retina and iris, remains almost unchanged throughout a person's life.

She is an inventor and author of more than 400 patent registrations.

Rosalind Picard, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, is widely recognized for her studies in the field of “affective computing”.

Affective computing is a field of computer science that helps machines to recognize, interpret and even simulate human affections and emotions.

This type of technology has many practical applications, but in particular, it is already being is being used in modern IA.

Building on the GUI inspired by Adele Goldberg's team at PARC, graphic designer Susan Kare is responsible for what remain some of Apple's signature graphics to this day. First, she took on the task of Steve Jobs from create a more elegant font for Apple, one that gave each letter the proper amount of pixels and did not try to make each uniform take up the amount of space it did (like a typewriter).

Kare also developed the idea that graphics should be easily readable symbols, correlated with real-world objects. This resulted in the Apple Watch, the index finger, the wastebasket and more. Even Apple's «command» key was of Kare's design, inspired by a Swedish symbol of a castle.

Shaw is considered the first video game designer and programmer. She is most famous for her game River Raid of 1982, but also contributed to 3 -D Tic-Tac-Toe (1979) y Video Checkers (1980), among many others.

Its unpublished Polo de 1978 is the first documented game designed and programmed by a woman.

Always linked to the company Atari left an indelible mark on the video game industry.

If you have ever searched for something in Google, At least partially has Karen Spärk Jones to thank for the relative ease with which her search is completed.

His work in the natural language processing and information retrieval made it possible for people to interact with computers using common words instead of codes.. He also invented term weighting, or the method used to determine the importance of a word in a document. It is part of the way the search engines score and rank importance of a document in a search query.

Designed 2 protocols that have been the basis of data movement on the Internet for decades; IS-IS running on most ISPs, and the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is the heart of Ethernet.

After graduating from MIT with a master's degree in mathematics in 1976 (he went on to earn a Ph.D.), he took on the challenge to to make computers share information reliably and securely. Their solution was STP, which disables routes that are not part of the tree while determining backup routes. This creates a single, active route between network nodes. Perlman is now working on a technology called TRILL to replace STP and make better use of bandwidth.

Perlman holds more than 100 patents and has received numerous awards.

She is a pioneer in the field of integrated network detection, which connects a microprocessor with sensing devices such as infrared cameras, motion detectors, chemical and acoustic sensors.

These devices, distributed over a wide area, monitor the area to detect and record changes.

Their advances have enabled the evolution of technologies used in smart home and IoT devices.