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Elsie Shutt | |
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| Born | 1928 (age 95–96) |
| Education | Goucher College (B.A.) |
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| 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 computer programmer and entrepreneur. She found Computations Incorporated (Comp Inc) in 1957, when she was not permitted to work part-time at home after she became pregnant. Shutt was one of the first women to start a software business in the United States.[1][2][3]
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- ^ Janet Abbate (2012). Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01806-7.
- ^ Janet Abbate (21 October 2014). "The women who shaped the computer age". Theweek.com.