Elsie Shutt

Elsie Shutt
Born
Elsie Goedeke

1928 (age 95–96)
EducationGoucher College (B.A.)
Occupation
Known for“The excitement of designing a system: . . . finding out what the problem is; analyzing it; designing something that will make it work; doing it; seeing it work, and having a client who is happy with it. That’s very satisfying.” - Elsie Shutt, 2001

Elsie Shutt (née Goedeke, born 1928) is an American technology entrepreneur. She started Computations Incorporated (Comp Inc) in 1957. She was one of the first women to start a software business in the United States.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Episode 576: When Women Stopped Coding". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  2. ^ Janet Abbate (2012). Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01806-7.
  3. ^ Janet Abbate (21 October 2014). "The women who shaped the computer age". Theweek.com.