90 is a lot of years. May everyone be so lucky to live until 90.
… in good health.
Almost all of the men in my family didn’t make it it to 50 going back 3 generations…
No one of us
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RIP, Thank you for all you did.
She worked in a tough field - when women had it even tougher than they do today. Awesome lady.
To add on, “worked” is an understatement. She was the one that coined the term “software engineering.” One of the main founders of the field.
While 90 is a decent number of years, it really goes to show how young the field is in the grand scheme of things. How many professions out there have most of their practitioners’ lives overlapping with those of its most important founding figures?
RIP to a titan of the profession, history will recognise her achievements long after all the systems we maintain stop running.
What an amazing woman. Thank you for sharing this article, OP. It was very touching to read this story. I feel sad that she has passed away.
She deserves to be a Great Person in Civilization alongside Grace Hopper and Carl Sagan
One of the very few people to appear as themselves in an official Lego set. (Qualifying the statement that way because Mark Hamil, for instance, has appeared in many Lego sets, but as Luke Skywalker or the Joker.)
May the legend rest in peace.
RIP to a legend
Amazing she was wicked witch of the west actor AND a computer scientist
This is back when computing was mostly done by women
Oh damn, sad news.
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