Mary Clare Coombs, née Blood, born 4 February 1929, has died following complications arising after a Covid-19 infection. Coombs originally joined Lyons & Co in 1952 as a management trainee, following ...

“It’s said that I’m the first female commercial programmer. It’s really rather nice to feel a pioneer,” Mary Coombs – who has died aged 93 – once said about her trailblazing career as a software ...

Coombs was the only woman out of a dozen internal candidates who applied to work on LEO (Mike Hally, LEO Computers Society) “It’s said that I’m the first female commercial programmer. It’s really ...

A road on Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner’s Innovations Campus will be named Bartik Drive after Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, a revolutionary female computer programmer, according to The Kansas City Star.