The 100 Most Influential Women in Gaming 108
Ground Glass writes "Next Generation has posted a list of the 100 most influential women in the games industry. It's an exhaustive and nonsense-free take on a subject particularly important to the male-dominated world of videogames. From the article: 'A gender-inclusive approach to game design and marketing of games may ensure that most, if not all, considerations to producing games for myriad markets are not overlooked. Games are no longer produced for a niche market of players; they are produced for complex, over-lapping layers of demographically, geographically, socially and culturally-influenced consumer groups.'"
Top 10 maybe (Score:3, Insightful)
missing: the one who is not only most important... (Score:3, Insightful)
Roberta Williams? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Top 10 maybe (Score:4, Insightful)
Click print to see them all... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Roberta Williams? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:missing: the one who is not only most important (Score:3, Insightful)
Troll.
Re:missing: the one who is not only most important (Score:3, Insightful)
You do realize that when Admiral Hopper was assigned to work on the first computers the US had (and I do literally mean first) there was no history to precede what she ended up working on, don't you??
She worked on many pioneering projects, and I believe can be credited (blamed?) with the invention of COBOL to simplify things.
Insinuating that the work Grace Hopper did wasn't the work of Genius is kind of like saying that "All Donald Knuth did was to write down some algorithms in a book", because it's largely on the same level of achievement. Failure to recognize that shows more of your ignornance than any deficiencies in her many accomplishments.
She is as an important figure in the history of computers as practically anyone else. Sure, in retrospect, it all seems obvious. Rest assured, when she did it, it was anything but old hat or easy to do.
Cheers
I think I've figured it out (Score:3, Insightful)
Rob