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Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer
As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy took off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War II, among them six gifted mathematicians: a patriotic Quaker, a Jewish bookworm, a Yugoslav genius, a native Gaelic speaker, a sophomore from the Bronx and a farmer's daughter from Missouri. Their mission? Program the world's first and only supercomputer - before any code or programming languages existed. 'Proving Ground' is the fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing.
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Meet the college student who created the ReDawn app
Sofia Ongele, a student at Fordham University and Swift Student Challenge winner, describes her inspiration for creating the ReDawn app for women who experience sexual assault. She speaks on \"Bloomberg Technology.\"
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Girls who code : learn to code and change the world
An introductory book about coding with interviews and a look at women in the fields that require coding.
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Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace schrieb 1843 das weltweit erste Programm für eine informationsverarbeitende Maschine. Welche Beiträge leisten Frauen bis heute in der Welt des Digitalen? Der Band setzt sich mit Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) als Pionierin der Programmierung, aber auch mit ihrer Stilisierung zur Ikone auseinander. Er blickt auf die Bedeutung ,Rechnender Frauen' in der Nachkriegsära der einsetzenden Computertechnik. Er erörtert die Rolle der ,feinen Unterschiede' der Geschlechter in Wissenschaft und Technik und lässt wichtige Forscherinnen zeitgenössischer Computerwissenschaft (Robotik, Verteilte Intelligenz, Big Data) zu Wort kommen.
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Women who launched the computer age
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission.
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Recoding Gender
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male \"computer geek\" seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain. Indeed, programming in postwar years was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). In Recoding Gender , Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she offers a valuable historical perspective on today's concerns over women's underrepresentation in the field. Abbate describes the experiences of women who worked with the earliest electronic digital computers: Colossus, the wartime codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park outside London, and the American ENIAC, developed to calculate ballistics. She examines postwar methods for recruiting programmers, and the 1960s redefinition of programming as the more masculine \"software engineering.\" She describes the social and business innovations of two early software entrepreneurs, Elsie Shutt and Stephanie Shirley; and she examines the career paths of women in academic computer science. Abbate's account of the bold and creative strategies of women who loved computing work, excelled at it, and forged successful careers will provide inspiration for those working to change gendered computing culture.
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Computer scientist Jean Bartik
\"Jean Bartik was one of the first programmers of the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). Learn how her love of math led her to work for the Army and then help develop the ENIAC.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The gendering of programmers’ work: taking China’s IT industry as an example
This paper discusses the gendering of programmers’ work in China at both the occupational and work organization levels: the dichotomy between social and technical aspects in programming work leads to a gendered hierarchical division of labor that undermines the legitimacy of women programmers’ professional identities. Additionally, the combination of the overtime culture in technology companies and traditional gender role expectations makes women more likely to face work‒family conflicts. This paper uses the concept of embodiment to analyze women’s experiences of exclusion and women’s motivation to reconcile their gender and occupational identities and plan their career development. Thus, it simultaneously reveals how gender rules operate and how they may be changed in programming work.
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Women in gaming : 100 professionals of play
\"This insightful and celebratory book highlights women who helped to establish the video game industry, women who disrupt it, women who fight to diversify it, and young women who will someday lead it. Featuring household names and unsung heroes, each individual profiled plays an important role in the gaming industry. Some of the talented women featured in the book include: Ashly Burch, Emmy-winning writer and voice actress; Carol Shaw, early industry programmer, designer, and Industry Icon award recipient; Niamh \"Chipzel\" Houston, celebrated chiptune composer and performer; Ariana Green, co-founder of Couple Six, Barbados' first game studio; Anna Anthropy, prolific experimental designer and author; Amy Hennig, senior creative director and Writers Guild of America award winner; Karisma Williams, Xbox and Oculus VR senior UI/UX designer; Jenny Xu, JCSoft Inc. founder and MIT undergraduate; Perrin Kaplan, former vice-president of marketing tor Nintendo of America; Jane Ng, senior game artist at Valve.\"--Back cover.
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Illuminating Women’s Hidden Contribution to Historical Theoretical Population Genetics
Through careful review of one eminent journal over the 1970s and 80s, Dung et al. found a surprisingly high proportion of the computational work was carried out by women. Consistent with authorship norms of the time... While productivity in academia is measured through authorship, not all scientific contributors have been recognized as authors. We consider nonauthor “acknowledged programmers” (APs), who developed, ran, and sometimes analyzed the results of computer programs. We identified APs in Theoretical Population Biology articles published between 1970 and 1990, finding that APs were disproportionately women (P = 4.0 × 10−10). We note recurrent APs who contributed to several highly-cited manuscripts. The occurrence of APs decreased over time, corresponding to the masculinization of computer programming and the shift of programming responsibilities to individuals credited as authors. We conclude that, while previously overlooked, historically, women have made substantial contributions to computational biology. For a video of this abstract, see: https://vimeo.com/313424402.
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