I cannot cite 12 men who technically inflenced the history of computer science.<p>Top of mind, I have Alan Turing, Dennis Richie, Bjarne Sroustrup, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvald.<p>And yes, for the women, I have the three that the author does not want to hear about.<p>Maybe it's time to stop being paranoid.
"<i>Sophie Wilson - Designed the ARM instruction set</i>"<p>This is disingenuous. Sophie Wilson was Roger Wilson and unquestionably a man in the early eighties when that work was done.
No Ada Lovelace? For shame. Or is this contemporary women? Seems like a major oversight.<p>> Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is widely regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of computers and one of the first computer programmers.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace</a>