List of Achievements Suitable for Milestones featuring Women
From IEEE Milestones Wiki
Date | Milestone | Associated woman | Location | IEEE Region | Remarks |
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1840 | First program | Ada Augusta | London, England | 8 | |
1881 | First meeting of American Association of University Women | Ellen Swallow Richards | Boston, MA | 1 | |
1893 | First woman to earn degree in EE | Bertha Lamme | Ohio State University | 2 | |
1898 | Development of theory of radioactivity | Marie Skłodowska Curie | Paris, France | 8 | |
1902 | Publication on electric arcs | Hertha Ayrton | University of London | 8 | |
1919 | First Women's Engineering Society Meeting | Laura Annie Willson, Rachel Parsons, Margaret, Lady Moir | Hertfordshire, UK | 8 | |
1921 | Graphical Calculator for power transmission computations | Edith Clarke | Schenectday, NY | 1 | |
1936 | Discovery of ring nebulae in Milky Way | Muriel Mussells Seyfert | Harvard | 1 | |
1942 | Frequency hopping | Hedy Lamarr | California? | 6 | |
1950 | First SWE Meeting | Beatrice Hicks | Cooper Union's Green Engineering Camp | 1 | |
1952 | Computer compiler | Grace Hopper | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | Philadelphia Section working on this. Site location for the plaque is a question. |
1959 | Oramics drawn sound | Daphne Oram | Kent, UK | 8 | |
1960 | Brain Research Institute Data Processing Laboratory | Thelma Estrin | Los Angeles | 6 | |
1969 | Apollo flight software | Margaret Hamilton | Cambridge, MA | 1 | |
1969 | First Computer Science textbook | Alexandra Illmer Forsythe | New York | 1 | |
1970 | Contributions to radio science in the polar regions | Irene Peden | Antarctica | ? | |
1980 | VLSI | Lynn Conway | Xerox PARC | 6 | |
1985 | Spanning Tree Protocol | Radia Perlman | DEC | 1 | |
1986 | Daubechies Wavelets | Ingrid Daubechies | New York | 1 | |
1992 | Prediction of band structures of carbon nanotubes | Mildred Dresselhaus | MIT | 1 | |
1992 | Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror | Ursula Keller | Switzerland | 8 | |
1995 | Rescue and Disaster Recovery Robots | Robin Murphy | Colorado School of Mines, Univ S. Florida | 5 |