28 September 2016: Rosa Filgueira Senior Research Associate Rosa Filgueira explores how perceptions of women in computing have changed since the 1940s, when programmers were often women. While there has been been some recognition of pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Katherine Johnson, Margaret Hamilton, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller and the "Eniac Girls" (Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman), most of the technical masterminds on our television and cinema screens have been male, and computers have been marketed as "boys toys." But perhaps that's changing...? See the slides Document CISA lunch / Rosa Filgueira Women and computers in documentaries, TV and film (1.29 MB / PDF) Footnote: For latest figures on the growing number of women studying Informatics at Edinburgh (October 2016), see our subsequent Athena SWAN Silver Award announcement. Sep 28 2016 13.00 - 14.00 28 September 2016: Rosa Filgueira Women and computers in documentaries, TV and film IF 2.33
28 September 2016: Rosa Filgueira Senior Research Associate Rosa Filgueira explores how perceptions of women in computing have changed since the 1940s, when programmers were often women. While there has been been some recognition of pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Katherine Johnson, Margaret Hamilton, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller and the "Eniac Girls" (Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman), most of the technical masterminds on our television and cinema screens have been male, and computers have been marketed as "boys toys." But perhaps that's changing...? See the slides Document CISA lunch / Rosa Filgueira Women and computers in documentaries, TV and film (1.29 MB / PDF) Footnote: For latest figures on the growing number of women studying Informatics at Edinburgh (October 2016), see our subsequent Athena SWAN Silver Award announcement. Sep 28 2016 13.00 - 14.00 28 September 2016: Rosa Filgueira Women and computers in documentaries, TV and film IF 2.33
Sep 28 2016 13.00 - 14.00 28 September 2016: Rosa Filgueira Women and computers in documentaries, TV and film
