Dona Bailey, Creator of Centipede

Found an interesting story about one of the first female game developers. Here is an introduction with links to read more:

In 1980, Atari had one single software engineer who was female. That woman, Dona Bailey -- whose only prior programming experience was assembly displays at General Motors -- created the classic arcade title Centipede, against enormous odds in a high-stakes environment in the infancy of the gaming industry. . . . read more | digg story