TechLife Trends
Volume 5 Issue 3     May 2021
*SPECIAL EDITION*

I hope this finds you well and I hope that everyone is getting ready for the warm weather and some great times outside with friends and family!

As we’re about to celebrate Mother’s Day, I want to dedicate this to my mom who has always been a great inspiration and supported me since I was a child with my crazy fascination for computers and technology. I decided to focus this issue on great women and their contributions to the world's most important technologies. It’s a real eye-opener and I hope you enjoy reading and learning about their tremendous contributions- I did!

Stay safe.

-Scott
President & Co-Principal
IDS Audio/Video & Technologies, Inc.
The Surprising Inventor of Early Wi-Fi

Hedy Lamarr was an actress, film producer and inventor. She was also the inventor of early spread-spectrum communication.
During World War II, after learning that radio-controlled torpedoes could be easily detected and set off course, she set about creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. This technology was used in 1962 by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba.

Today, this technology is incorporated into Bluetooth and GPS technology and is similar to methods used in legacy versions of Wi-Fi.
Meet Ada, The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace is known as the world's first computer programmer.

Though a product of a difficult childhood, her mother insisted she receive a quality education by private tutors, focusing on math and science. She ultimately went on to break new ground in computing, realizing that anything that could be converted into numbers (music, language, images) could then be manipulated by computer algorithms. Her accomplishments in math made her a pioneer not only of computing but of women in science.
More Women Who Influenced Technology
Katherine Johnson. Elizabeth Feinler. Grace Hopper. Dr. Erna Hoover.

To lend more perspective into tech contributions by women, consider this:
Johnson was instrumental in getting the first astronauts into space with her equations of orbital space flight. Easley was coined a "human computer.'
Feinler ran all the domain pages of the internet before there was a Domain Name System (DNS). Hopper was called Grandma COBOL.
And Dr. Hoover kept phones working under stressful loads, in fact, working on the idea while in the hospital after giving birth.

There are many more, but get started with these good reads about these fascinating women and their contributions:
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