Introducing ENIAC Six: Atomic’s Room Named for the Women who Programmed the ENIAC
5 min read · From 2016 · Jaime Lightfoot · The untold story of the group of women who programmed the ENIAC—the world’s first all-digital, Turing-complete, general-purpose computer.
Hedy Lamarr: The Incredible Mind Behind Secure WiFi, GPS And Bluetooth
4 min read · From 2018 · The patent Lamarr filed aimed to protect her 1941 invention for radio communications to ‘hop’ from one frequency to another so that Allied torpedoes…
“M’han arribat a dir que som massa guapa per ser informàtica”
3 min read · Feb 7th · Antoni Riera · Les dones no arriben al 8,5% del total de matriculats a Enginyeria Informàtica a la Universitat de les Illes Balears
Laura Urbieta on Twitter
Jan 19th · “Hoy es el 20º aniversario del fallecimiento de Hedy Lamarr, actriz de Hollywood, ingeniera, inventora, entre otras cosas, del espectro ensanchado por salto de…
Female mathematicians who changed history
4 min read · Paywall possible · 13 saves · 2019-12-19 · New film Hidden Figures tells the story of Nasa's black, female mathematicians. Here are 10 more women who transformed maths.
The History of Women in Software and Programming
8 min read · 2019-05-29 · Mark Dencker · When you think of a programmer, most people wouldn't think of a woman programming. However, women played a huge role in the history of…
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Paywall possible · 238 saves · 2019-02-13 · Clive Thompson · Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
Ada Lovelace Day: We should never forget the first computer programmer
5 min read · 42 saves · 2018-09-27 · Reading through most accounts of history, we could be forgiven for assuming that women were not the warriors, the great thinkers nor the pioneering…
Una història secreta: la informàtica femenina
~11 min read · From 2018 · No han estat poques les dones que han participat activament en el desenvolupament de la computació, per això mereixen ser recordades.
Without these women, man would not have walked on the moon
10 min read · 27 saves · 2019-07-19 · Numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses, helped put a man on the moon. Here are the stories of…