Ada Lovelace - widely regarded as 'the first programmer,' she worked toghether with Charles Babbage in his creation of the Analytical Engine

Hedy Lamarr - co-inventor of the Spread Spectrum - a way of protecting radio signals from being intercepted or corrupted used in anything wireless nowadays

Anita Borg - member of the research staff at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and president and founding director of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper - one of the initial programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, developer of the first compiler, and "mother" of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages

Mary Lou Jepsen - founding CIO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Association, an organization whose mission is to get an enegry efficient, low-cost laptop into the hands of all children in developing countries

Roberta Williams - an American video game designer famous for her pioneering work in graphical adventure games and cofounder of On-Line Systems, a video game developer later known as Sierra On-Line

Meg Whitman - President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008, when she steps down from her role, and candidate for Governor of California in the November 2010 election

Dame Wendy Hall - cofounder of the Web Science Research Initiative and president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a professional society for computing, since 2008

Carly Fiorina - an American businesswoman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 famous for becoming the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company