I could be really teed off at this broad for dashing my hopes of what I thought would be a kick-ass thesis by accomplishing it first, but I am too in awe of her massive mental abilities, and as such, have decided to profile her instead. Judee-doll was born in Ames, Iowa in 1948. A [...]
Letitia Long
If I were a praying girl, I would be screaming “Amen and Hallelujah” from the rooftops today over the confirmation of Letitia Long as the new Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. But since I am not, let’s just discuss Long instead. But if I may, can I comment on the fact that there [...]
Crowdsourcing 2.0
We’ve all heard the stories of police using Facebook to solve crimes but I love this story of how an Average Jane, or in this case, Mary Chapman of Brunswick, Georgia, used her Facebook community in her community to track down the man who broke into her husband’s truck. As a student I tend to [...]
Grace Hopper
Navy Rear Admiral “Amazing Grace” Murray Hopper (1906-1992) revolutionized the world and you probably didn’t even know it. Lead inventor of the Harvard Mark I & II computers, largely considered to be the first computerized calculator, and inventor of the first compiler for a computer programming language, this gal changed life as we know it, [...]
The Bionic Woman
“We can rebuild her. We have the technology.We can make her better than she was before: better, stronger, faster.” And so begins the career of Jaime Sommers, The Bionic Woman (1976-1978). A tennis pro nearly killed in a skydiving accident, she is rebuilt and becomes an agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence a fictional [...]
Isabelle Cheng
Isabelle Cheng (1970-), aka Chang Nian-Tzu, embroiled herself in a serious brouhaha here in the US four years ago when the US Department of State discovered that one of our own, Donald Keyser, was involved in a tryst with Cheng who is a Taiwanese Spy Dame. The details aren’t terribly clear but what we do [...]
Col. Karen Cleary
The first thing you should know about Colonel Karen Cleary of the US Air Force is that she has a bigger brain than you. I’m not saying this facetiously, seriously, check out this pedigree: 1987 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University NY 1992 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base AL 1995 Master [...]
Dana Scully
Oh, what’s not to totally dig about TV’s “X-Files” FBI Special Agent, Dr. Dana Scully? The logical foil to Fox Mulder, she’s has to be the brainiest broad ever to ever to hit the small screen. But what I truly love about this character is her strict attention to method: The Scientific Method. While Mulder [...]
Genevieve Feinstein
Genevieve Feinstein (1912-2006) was my kind of gal. A math-whiz with dreams of becoming a teacher, she was veered off course when she took an exam to be a government mathematician and decided to use her smarts for the common good. Genevieve became a cryptanalyst for the US Signals Intelligence Service and in 1939, began [...]
Hedy Lamarr
Ms. Lemarr, an Austrian born actress (1913-2000) who enchanted movie goers world wide with her ravishing beauty, also co-invented spread spectrum encoding, the basic technology for anti-ballistic missiles and the cell phone in your purse. Married to an arms manufacturer in the 1930′s who had forbidden her from acting (while also failing to notice her [...]
