We are honored to showcase the incredible history of women’s contributions to computing. Below is an index of all 54 of the inspiring women who we feature on our cards.
Suit | Honoree Name | Position, Honors, Awards | Wikipedia |
Joker | Maria Klawe | Harvey Mudd College President, ACM Fellow, Canadian Information Processing Society founding Fellow | More here |
Joker | Mitchell Baker | Exec. Chair Mozilla, ABI Women of Vision, Internet Hall of Fame | More here |
Hearts | Queen–Frances Allen | IBM Fellow Emerita, Turing Award, Computer History Museum Fellow, IEEE Fellow | More here |
❤ | King–Barbara Liskov | MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM Fellow, SWE Achievement Award | More here |
❤ | Jack–Shafrira Goldwasser | MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM-W Athena Lecturer | More here |
❤ | Ace– Hessa Sultan Al Jaber | Qatar ICT Minister, Chair CS Department – Qatar Univ. | More here |
❤ | 10- Mary Jane Irwin | Pennsylvania State Univ. Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, NAE Member, ACM-W Athena Lecturer | More here |
❤ | 9- Irene Greif | IBM User Experience Group, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Formed Lotus Research 1992 | More here |
❤ | 8- Duy-Loan Le | Senior Fellow-Texas Instruments, WITI Hall of Fame, ABI Women of Vision | More here |
❤ | 7- Grete Hermann | Univ. of Göttingen mathematician, 1926 foundational paper for computerized algebra | More here |
❤ | 6- Manuela Veloso | Carnegie Mellon Univ. Professor, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow | More here |
❤ | 5- Lila Ibrahim | Chief Business Officer Coursera, ABI Women of Vision, Purdue University-Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer | none yet |
❤ | 4-Padmasree Warrior | Cisco CTO, WITI Hall of Fame, Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi | More here |
❤ | 3-Genevieve Bell | Intel Director of Interaction and Experience Research, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
❤ | 2- Marilyn Wescoff | ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
Diamonds | Queen–Anita Borg | Founder Anita Borg Institute, WITI Hall of Fame, Fellow ACM, EFF Pioneer | More here |
♦ | King–Deborah Estrin | Professor Cornell NYC Tech, ACM, AAAS and IEEE Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, ACM-W Athena Lecturer | More here |
♦ | Jack– Yuqing Gao | IBM Senior Manager, ABI Women of Vision, IEEE Fellow | none yet |
♦ | Ace– Susan Graham | Univ. California Berkeley Distinguished Professor, ACM Fellow, NAE Member, AAAS Fellow | none yet |
♦ | 10- Cristina Amon | Univ. of Toronto Dean-Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, IEEE Fellow, SWE Achievement Award, Canadian Academy of Eng., Spanish Royal Academy, Royal Society of Canada, US NAE | More here |
♦ | 9- Betsy Ancker-Johnson | 1st observation of microwave emission without the presence of an external field (1967), Fellow Am Physical Society, Fellow AAAS, IEEE Fellow, Member NAE | More here |
♦ | 8- Arati Prabhakar | US DARPA Director, IEEE Fellow, Head National Institute of Standards and Technology (US NIST) | More here |
♦ | 7- Sophie Vandebroek | CTO Xerox, IEEE Fellow, WITI Hall of Fame, Royal Flemish Academy for Arts & Sciences Member | none yet |
♦ | 6- Ruzena Bajcsy | Univ. California Berkeley Professor, NAE Member, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAI member, AAAS member | More here |
♦ | 5- Laurie Hendren | Professor McGill Univ., ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada | none yet |
♦ | 4- Lixia Zhang | Univ. California, Los Angeles Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow | none yet |
♦ | 3- Betty Snyder | ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
♦ | 2- Kay McNulty | ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
Spades | Queen–Grace Hopper | US Navy Admiral, 1st compiler for a programming language 1952, Computer History Museum Fellow, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow AAAS | More here |
♠ | King– Chieko Asakawa | IBM Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, Japan Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon | none yet |
♠ | Jack–Denice Denton | Univ. California Santa Cruz Chancellor, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow | More here |
♠ | Ace– Radia Perlman | Intel Fellow, IEEE Fellow, 1st ABI Women of Vision award winner | More here |
♠ | 10- Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza | Professor PUC Rio de Janeiro, CHI Academy | none yet |
♠ | 9- Linda Petzold | Univ. California Santa Barbara Professor, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, NAE Member | none yet |
♠ | 8- Jennifer Widom | Professor Stanford Univ., ACM Fellow, AAAS Member, NAE Member | More here |
♠ | 7- Jean Sammet | IBM Researcher, 1st woman ACM President, ACM Fellow, Computer History Museum Fellow | More here |
♠ | 6- Helen Greiner | CEO of CyPhy Works, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
♠ | 5- Anuradha Annaswamy | MIT Senior Research Scientist, IEEE Fellow, Hay Medal – Indian Institute of Science | none yet |
♠ | 4- Qiheng Hu | Founder, China Internet Network Information Center, Internet Hall of Fame, Research Professor – Chinese Academy of Sciences | none yet |
♠ | 3- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum | ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
♠ | 2- Fran Bilas | ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
Clubs | Queen–Katherine Johnson | NASA Mathematician, calculated the trajectory of early space launches 1959. Subject of Hidden Figures major motion picture. | More here |
♣ | King–Augusta Ada Lovelace King | Mathematician, 1st computer programmer 1843 | More here |
♣ | Jack–Jennifer Chayes | Microsoft Research Distinguished Scientist, ACM Fellow, ABI Women of Vision | More here |
♣ | Ace– Vicki Hanson | Professor Univ. of Dundee, ACM Fellow, SIGCHI Social Impact Award, ABI Women of Vision, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh | none yet |
♣ | 10- Ellen Ochoa | NASA Astronaut and Johnson Space Center Director, 1st Hispanic woman in space, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Harvard Foundation Science Award, San Diego State Univ. Alumna of the Year | More here |
♣ | 9- Tova Milo | Professor Tel Aviv Univ., ACM Fellow | More here |
♣ | 8- Valerie Taylor | Professor Univ. Texas A&M, IEEE Fellow | none yet |
♣ | 7- Kathleen McKeown | Professor Columbia Univ., ACM and AAAI Fellow, Founding Fellow Association for Computational Linguistics, ABI Women of Vision | none yet |
♣ | 6- Susan Landau | Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ABI Women of Vision | More here |
♣ | 5- Mary Lou Jepsen | Google X Head of the Display Division, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
♣ | 4- Kristina Johnson | Undersecretary US Dept. of Energy, IEEE Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, SWE Achievement Award | More here |
♣ | 3- Sophie Wilson | Broadcom Director IC Design, Designer Acorn Microcomputer, Computer History Museum Fellow, Fellow Royal Society-London | More here |
♣ | 2- Jean Bartik | ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame | More here |
A project by: Susan Rodger (Duke University Computer Science Professor of the Practice), Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and Katy Dickinson (Founder, Mentoring Standard)