Women in technology: Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is considered the forerunner of the modern professional nursing and creator of the first conceptual model of this profession.
Women in Technology: Ginni Rometty
Our today’s female referent is, more than a technologist, a real business woman. Virginia “Ginni” Rometty is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur and the first female CEO of IBM, a position she currently holds.
Women in Technology: Fei-Fei Li
New episode of the ‘Women in Technology’ series, this time dedicated to a modern researcher: Fei-Fei Li. She is Professor of Computer Science, Co-Director of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute and one of the most prolific active technologist at Artificial Intelligence (AI) field.
Women in Technology: Hedy Lamarr
Successful Hollywood actress and scientist, her biggest contribution to ICT world was in the wireless communications sector. Lamarr’s technology was used to control communications and nowadays it is working in mobile networks, Bluetooth devices and WiFi.
Women in Technology: Marie Curie
Considered a pioneer in the radioactivity field, this famous Polish-French scientist was the first woman to become a professor at Sorbonne University in Paris. Our colleague Alicia remembered her that way.
Women in Technology: Ada Lovelace
New episode of the ‘Women in Technology’ series. Today, International Women’s Day, this post couldn’t be dedicated anybody but her: Ada Lovelace. Considered the first woman programmer in history, Lovelace has been the most mentioned reference by our colleagues, maybe for being a pioneer in a world -the Mathematics and Science- reserved exclusively for […]
Women in Technology: Limor Fried
March is the women’s month and at Gradiant you can read every Friday a post on reference technologists. Today, the Queen of open source hardware and CEO of Adafruit, Limor Fried.
Women in Technology: Jude Milhon
We are beginning a new section of Women in Technology introducing Jude Milhon, programmer, writer and one of the first female hackers in history, as well as a strong advocate for cyber-rights.
21st century Women Technologists: Women in technology
In 2018 we introduced you to our women technologists. This time, we would like to dedicate this first post of the year to introduce you to the other women colleagues who are part of our team and who work hand in hand with technology every day
21st century Women Technologists: Antía Fernández
Born in Allariz, our colleague is a telecommunications engineer and played in the Galician basketball team. In addition, Antía plays the bagpipe and in her free time enjoys nature and practices yoga.
21st century Women Technologists: Nora M. Villanueva
In her free time, Nora enjoys music -if it is live, that’ s better-, travel and gastronomy. These two hobbies are the ones she likes to combine: every time she visits a country, she doesn’t go without tasting typical local food.
21st century Women Technologists: Helena Fernández
few years ago, our colleague moved from her hometown of Rio de Janeiro to Braga (Portugal) where she did her doctorate. Helena joined the GRD team in 2012 and a year later she became the director of Gradiant’s eHealth area and she still is.
