What 21st century technology owes women

Do you remember how difficult it was before when we had to look at a paper map of how to get to another country by car? Or how difficult was it to travel through a foreign city and not get lost in the effort?

Today's solution to all these problems has a name: GPS. And it has a writer, or in this case, the author: Gladys West. In particular, it is responsible for the development of models within satellite geodesy that are later captured on GPS.

The West story is well worth the film. He was born into a working family. His mother worked in a tobacco factory, while his father was a farmer who worked overtime. But this is not what the West is doing about its future.

He soon excelled in academia and was able to benefit from one of two courses offered by his institution to study at Virginia State University. Although most of the students in that department were men, he did not hesitate to study mathematics.

In 1956, she began working at a Marine training camp, becoming the only black woman to do so (and a fourth African-American). West life is why life is full of moments that will go down in history.

For seventy years he participated in IBM's computer programs to accurately calculate Earth's composition and eventually created what would become the basis of the Earthquake System, better known as GPS.

What was the first thing you did this morning? It is possible that, without realizing it, it has been using the Internet. Whether you listen to music on Spotify, check Twitter or say hello to Alexa, all of these require network connectivity.

And that means that it did this morning thanks Radia Joy Perlman, known internationally as the "Internet Mother", even though she has denied the article more than once when it was considered the Internet was not created by one person.

In any case, Perlman must adopt the Spannin Tree law, which is essential for the use of local networks, also known as the LAN name. Do you think that is not enough?

Perlman also went down in history as a pioneer in children's educational programs by naming TORTIS: a modified version of boys and girls from the language of LOGO robots.

Her time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she obtained a PhD in Computer Science, marks the time when women were separated from the university world. Of the nearly 1,000 students in her studies, there are about 50 women.

That hasn't stopped him and in his professional career (where he has registered as many as 50 patents) he has shown that talent and intelligence have nothing to do with our breeding program.

You may have reached this article after a Google search. Well, surely Larry Page and Sergey Brin have a lot to do. But did you know that search engines would not have been possible without the work of a woman?

We talk about Karen Spärck Jones, a Briton who invented the concept of duplicate documentary. Tf-idf is a calculation method to show the matching of a document name.

This is a process that uses automated summary or classification tools, as well as search engines like Google to find, for example, the orientation of web pages in SERPs or search results.

Whenever you have a question and you use Google to find the answer, remember that we are very grateful to the woman that the search engine is able to find results and rank accordingly.

If you have even in your hands a eBook or an ebook and have you ever wondered who invented this device, it may be that you open Google and find the man's name and date: Michael Hart and 1971.

However, little is said that, twenty years earlier, a Hispanic woman made a patent for a product intended as an electronic book. Its purpose? Reduce the space used by all encyclopedia volumes.

We talk about Ángela Ruiz Robles, a teacher and inventor, a lover of culture and knowledge, who gave us something that served years ago to "inspire" her to create one of the most popular devices of our time: Electricity

No one in Spain had any desire to finance their work. Robles died in 1975, weeks before Francisco Fao's death, ending a time when women could aspire to be either housewives or teachers at women's schools.

Nevertheless, Ángela Ruiz Robles' work has given us the first book of machines that serves as an inspiration so that today, readers will be able to carry a little metal with thousands and thousands of books inside.

We continue to celebrate women in the tech world with someone you may know through their creative genius. Physics and math Katherine Johnson was played on the big screen by actor Taraji P. Henson in the movie & # 39; Hidden Figures & # 39;

As those who have seen the film will know, Johnson was responsible for the astronomical calculations that were key to NASA's space mission, the center where he worked for more than three decades.

Known by some as "the human calculator," his love for mathematics began from a young age. The girl who started by telling everything (steps, plates, stars …) ended up counting the Apollo 11 track that would take this man to the Moon.

The next time someone reminds you that the first person to do so was a man, you told them that Neil Armstrong would not have come there without the help of a woman.

And astronauts traveling between Apollo 13 in 1970 would not be able to return to Earth safely after taking the mission out of the processes and navigation charts created by Johnson to determine the location of his atmosphere at all times.

Have you started planning your summer vacation yet? Maybe create a new Word document to write down everything you want to see on your next destination. Or maybe you've contacted other websites to book your flight tickets.

Now, imagine you are going to reorganize your trip with a brochure or go to a travel agency. Thanks to Evelyn Berezin, this is a thing of the past, and that we owe not only to the presence of word processors, but also to online booking systems.

This American computer engineer became known as the mother of word processors in 1968 a program that allowed storing and editing documents. He organized it to simplify his office work and ultimately simplified it for the rest of us and a lifetime.

It also established the basis for United Airlines' first airline reservation system, which ended up being one of the largest computer systems at this time in a one-second response time.

As if all of this is not enough, the next time you use your mobile banking app to check your balance and keep track of it, remember that it was also Berezin who created the first computer banking system.

About 50 years ago, there was a woman whose concerns about the safety of her home led to you and we were able to be calm and calm when we went on vacation or when our house was empty.

Her name was Marie Van Brittan-Brown and she was the founder of the first community surveillance program with closed circuit television, microphone, remote control to open doors remotely with alarm system to call for help when needed.

This introduction comes from the courage of a woman, who is tired of seeing how the police have not acted appropriately on the African-American community in New York, realizes that she is the one who has to solve the problem.

A woman, a black, a nurse and two children, Marie gave us the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your home is properly protected. Although history is determined to stop it, today we are redefining its work and reminding the world that your invention was before and after in the lives of many families.

Wi-Fi is one of the most used tools of our time and it is very possible that you are now connected or connected to a wireless network to read this book. It's time to thank the woman for being able to do so.

Hedy Lamarr was outstanding from a young age for his ingenuity. At 16 he started his engineering training, which eventually left him (temporarily) guided by his artistic career that forced him to become a movie star. It became a landmark thanks to the film Ecstasy (1933).

After being forced to marry her family, the actor mentally abused her husband, who put her under strict supervision, even allowing her to leave the house.

It was then that Hedy resumed his engineering studies and used that information to obtain weapons information from his husband's (fascist) clients, who eventually transferred to the US.

His opposition to the Nazi regime led him to write a privatization permit in 1942 to avoid the discovery of explosives sent by the Allies. In addition, Hedy made an upgraded version of street lights and invented a pill to make a soft drink.

But his most widely accepted introduction is the wide-angle broadcasting radio that is used today in GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections. The life and work done for this founder is one of the most exciting in history.

The concept of connectivity is already part of our day to day focus on that aspect of electronic text and web pages that allow you to move to a specific point with just one click.

Today, we often think that web pages include such links, but we rarely wonder how that might be. The answer lies in two women: Nicole Yankelovich, Karen Catlin and Nancy Garrett.

Both participated in the Intermediate project, looking at the third to study context. The Brown University team that Yankelovich, Catlin and Garrett worked with grew up anchor link, that link that redirects you to a specific part of a linked page.

Karen Catlin has also dedicated a portion of her life to demanding the presence of women in the tech industry. His story is full of success, but he knows that diversity is still in the industry and he wants to help build inclusive workplaces.

Similarly, another woman also worked in hypermedia and led the team behind Microcosm, a program that preceded the World Wide Web but which defined the Internet and future services.

Waterfalls This is the opacity of the natural lens of the eye, the most common cause of blindness in people over 40 and can be cured today due to laser surgery that lasted only 20 minutes.

Do you know who invented a laser that can restore vision to millions of people around the world? This is Patricia Bath, a doctor and inventor born in 1942 in the United States.

Despite all the difficulties the race and parenting system put on her when she was born and she managed to become the first African American woman to receive a medical patent: the Laserphaco Probe, which can cure the cause of an accident.

On Women's Day we remember that no woman or black man had to be born with other obstacles, and we remember the great work done by human history to be part of the group.