Sponsorship Packages
Ada & Grace
'Ada'
In honour of Ada Lovelace, 'Ada' is our top tier packages.
Ada was born in 1815 and is recognised as the first programmer because she had written notes that explained how the notion of a specific engine could transition calculation to computation. She is one of the famous women in technology and every second Tuesday in October is known as Ada Lovelace Day to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM careers.
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'Grace'
In honour of Grace Hopper, "Grace" is also one of our limited top tier packages.
Grace was born in 1906. During the years as a Naval Reserve, Grace joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp in 1949 where she designed a compiler which translated programmer’s instructions into computer codes. In 1957, her division developed the first English language data processing complier.
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Annie, Mary & Adele
'Annie'
In honour of Annie Easley, 'Annie' is one of three tier one packages available.
Annie was born in 1933. While working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), she had developed and implemented code which led to the development of the battery’s used in hybrid cars. She is well known for being one of the famous women in technology for encouraging women and people of her colour to study and enter STEM fields.
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'Mary'
In honour of Mary Wilkes, 'Mary' is one of three tier one packages available.
Mary was born in 1937. In her early years, she worked with computers such as the IBM 709 and 704. In 1961 she contributed to the LNC development of TX-2, as she designed and wrote the operators manual for the final console design. She is known for helping develop the first personal computer and was also the first person to have a PC in her home.
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'Adele'
In honour of Adele Goldberg, 'Adele' is one of three tier one packages available.
Adele was born in 1973. A researcher at the Xero Palo Alto Research Centre & the only woman in the team who built the Smalltalk-80 together, a programming language which designed so that windows could overlap on display screens, or formally known as Graphical User Interface (GUI). Adele is credited with having inspired Steve Jobs at Apple.
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Mary K, Radia, Katherine, Karen & Elizabeth
'Mary K'
In honour of Mary Keller, 'Mary' is one of three tier two packages available.
Mary was born in 1913. Alongside two other scientists, she developed the BASIC computer programming language. She later developed a computer science department in a college for women, Clarke College, where she advocated for women in computer science and supported working mother, encouraging them to bring their babies to class with them.
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'Radia'
In honour of Radia Perlman, 'Radia' is one of three tier two packages available.
Born in 1951, Radia invented the spanning tree algorithm and spinning tree protocol in the 1980s. The spinning tree algorithm transformed ethernet from a single wire CSMA into a protocol that could handle large clouds. Radia is credited with fundamentally contributing to the underflying infrastructure of the internet and for creating STP.
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'Katherine'
In honour of Katherine Johnson, 'Katherine' is one of three tier two packages available.
Born in 1918, Katherine worked at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. She is noted for her historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist. Her mathematical work was instrumental in the US' quest to successfully orbit around earth and also in reaching the moon and back.
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'Elizabeth'
In honour of Elizabeth Feinler, 'Elizabeth' is one of two tier three packages available.
Born in 1931, Elizabeth was a director at the Stanford research institute. By the late 1980s, the community had moved to the domain name system which helped lay the foundation for the modern internet. Elizabeth is well known her work in helping the transition to the domain name system and introducing the domain name protocol.
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'Karen'
In honour of Karen Spärck Jones, 'Karen' is one of two tier three packages available.
In the 1960s she worked on information retrieval, introducing the IDF term weighting adopted by modern systems like web search engines. She was a key figure in setting standards for a large proportion of the work in natural language processing worldwide and well known for producing natural language for the search engines that we use daily.
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