One of the first women to earn a PhD in computer sciences and the very first woman to receive one in the US was a nun. Her name was Mary Kenneth Keller and she helped in the development of the computer language BASIC at Dartmouth College. Keller founded the Computer Science Department at Iowas Clarke College and established a master’s degree program for computer application in education. Read more: bit.ly/1aOQFhW via Mental Floss
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