Margaret Hamilton, MIT Instrumentation Laboratory

In the 1960’s Margaret Hamilton and her team saved the Apollo moon landing. Hamilton is now 78 and runs Hamilton Technologies, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company she founded in 1986. She’s lived to see “software engineering” — a term she coined — grow from a relative backwater in computing into a prestigious profession. Read more about her success on Vox.

Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2015

Thank you to Fast Company Magazine for highlighting gender in business and technology issues and for remembering women in their annual Most Creative People list.

The Untold Story of American Scientists

Listen to women from across the Administration tell the stories of their personal heroes across the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Presented by The White House’s STEM program.

Carla Diana, American interaction designer

Carla Diana is a designer-artist whose work bridges the gap between the physical and the digital. As Associate Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design, her projects include domestic robots, mobile devices and sentient kitchen appliances. © 2012 TED.

Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin invent the invisible bike helmet

Swedish designers from University of Lund, Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, spent 7 years researching a better solution to the bike helmet. © Focus Films 2013.

Why Engineering? – with Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson tells how engineering is fun and can change the world. She is an accomplished nuclear physicist and engineer, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and served as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1995-1999).
© The Edison Tech Center 2012.

Catarina Mota, Maker of Smart Materials

http://embed.ted.com/talks/catarina_mota_play_with_smart_materials.htmlA TEDGlobal Fellow, Catarina Mota plays with “smart materials” — like shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric structures that react to voltage — and encourages others to do so too. © 2012 TED.

Tan Le, Vietnamese Engineer of Mind Reading Head Set

http://embed.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.htmlTan Le is the founder & CEO of Emotiv Lifescience, a bioinformatics company that’s working on identifying biomarkers for mental and other neurological conditions using electroencephalography (EEG). © TED 2010.

Ayah Bdeir introduces LittleBits

TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together. © TED 2012.

Jocelyn Goldfein Director of Engineering, Facebook

In this WITI session, Facebook Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein will discuss the importance of getting more women into STEM, what the key obstacles are, and some changes that would make a difference in growing the number of women in tech. Jocelyn will also talk about the path to her current position and the impact of various experiences on her career decisions. © WITI 2011.