Influential female programmers/computer scientists (apart from Ada Lovelace!)

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Everyone knows the names Dijkstra, Kernighan, Richie, Bloch and so on but are there actually (well-known) female programmers/computer scientists who made a great impact, developed some fundamental ideas, etc.? Shame on me, I don't know any (and probably some of you neither)...

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