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The streets at the CCCamp campground are named after accomplished women in information technology and science.

Ada Lovelace way

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.

Read more about Ada Lovelace at Wikipedia.

Adele Goldberg way

Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is an American computer scientist. She was one of the co-developers of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and of various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.

Read more about Adele Goldberg at Wikipedia.

Alexandra Elbakyan street

Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (born November 6, 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.