Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
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@mcnees She reminds me of my Great Aunt, who was born in the 1890s into a very Catholic French Canadian family.
Girls did NOT go to college. They got married and had (lots of) babies.
But not Emma. She was smart--her thing was languages; she spoke at least six--and wanted an education. So she became a nun and got educated in the service of the church. She took courses, including chemistry and physics, at McGill.
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Karen E. Lund 💙💛