ME:: Women have done all the STEM things including software forever and have forever been ignored ; Olivia Guest:: Cryptogyny

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Obfuscating women’s interests in and contributions to technology echoes through the ages (Erscoi et al., 2023); see Figure 1. Culinary recipes are archetypal algorithms, but cooking is not seen as related to programming (cf. Shore, 1985). Jaccard looms, machines that weave cloth, are the original use case for punchcards – physical pieces of paper that were used to program computers (Harlizius-Klück, 2017). Ada Lovelace invented the first computer program (Aiello, 2016). Women mathematicians and programmers worked with the first digital computer, the ENIAC (Kleiman, 2022). Grace Hopper invented the compiler (Beyer, 2012). Core rope memory was created through knitting copper wires by women for NASA’s Apollo missions (Rosner, Shorey, Craft, Remick, 2018). Margaret Hamilton was Director of the Software Engineering Division that, inter alia, took humans to the Moon (Hamilton & Hackler, 2008).