825	Al-Khwarzimi - A Muslim scholar wrote a book on algorithms
1587	Mary Queen of Scots - Her encrypted messages were decyphered by Elizabeth I
1818	Mary shelly - writes first science fiction novel on artificial life
1842	Ada Lovelace - Shows Charles Babbage that his machine could be programmed
1854	Claude Shannon - discovers that Boolean logic can be electrically applied to create digital circuits
1856	Florence Nightingale - launches data visualisation
1912	Thomas Edison - claims "woman is now centuries, ages, even epochs behind man"!
1927	Maria - Metropolis silent film. Male scientists kidnap a woman and create a robotic verison
1943	Thomas Watson - IBM CEO announces he thinks there is a world market for maybe 5 computers"!
1946	Grace Hopper - Mark 1 computer, created term debugging, develops first compiler and pioneering language
1949	Popular Mechanics - A magazine predicts future computers might weigh as little as 1.5 tonnes each
1967	Harry Mudd - Star Trek mad ruler runs a planet of female androids
1968	Barabara Liskov - The first woman in the US to gain a PhD in computer science
1972	Karen Jones - publishes paper which becomes basis of most search engines
1979	Ada - US Department of Defence introduces new programming language named after Ada Lovelace
1982	Blade Runner - No male robots modelled as 'basic peasure units'!
1984	Lucy Suchman - Wins Benjamin Franklin Medal for overturning ideas on designing interactive gadgets
1985	Weird Science - Two teenage supergeeks hack into government mainframe and create the ..perfect woman?!
1995	Angelina Jolie - stars as the hacker Acid Burn in the film Hackers.
2001	Madonna	- At Brixton Academy made internet history and misery with concert webcast in real time viewd by 9 million
2004	Lawrence Summers - Harvard University president lost his job after saying women have less "innate" ability
2006	Fran Allen - The first woman to win the Turing Award (the Nobel Prize of Computer Science)
2006	Torchwood - The technical expert is a woman and a highly inteligent computer genius
2008	Barbara Liskov - wins the Turing Award for designing programming languages and OOP
2009	Wendy Hall - Made Dame Commander of the British Empire for pioneering work on hypermedia and web science