Women in STEM
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spin.atomicobject.com
Introducing ENIAC Six: Atomic’s Room Named for the Women who Programmed the ENIAC
spin.atomicobject.com
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.
Forbes
Hedy Lamarr: The Incredible Mind Behind Secure WiFi, GPS And Bluetooth
Forbes
5 min read · 10 saves · 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 couldn’t be detected by the Nazis. The technology…
arabalears.cat
“M’han arribat a dir que som massa guapa per ser informàtica”
arabalears.cat
3 min read · 2020-02-07 · Antoni Riera · Les dones no arriben al 8,5% del total de matriculats a Enginyeria Informàtica a la Universitat de les Illes Balears
twitter.com
Laura Urbieta on Twitter
twitter.com
1 min read · 2020-01-19 · “Hoy es el 20º aniversario del fallecimiento de Hedy Lamarr, actriz de Hollywood, ingeniera, inventora, entre otras cosas, del espectro ensanchado por salto de frecuencia que se utiliza en los GPS,…
The Telegraph
Female mathematicians who changed history
The Telegraph
4 min read · 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.
wiredelta.com
The History of Women in Software and Programming
wiredelta.com
9 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 programming.
The New York Times
The Secret History of Women in Coding
The New York Times
20+ min read · 244 saves · From 2019 · Clive Thompson · Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
The Independent
Ada Lovelace Day: We should never forget the first computer programmer
The Independent
5 min read · 42 saves · From 2018 · Reading through most accounts of history, we could be forgiven for assuming that women were not the warriors, the great thinkers nor the pioneering scientists who shaped and changed our world. That men alone birthed art, churned out literature and fiercely challenged the status quo, while women functioned only within the domestic realm. But though the canon has perpetually erased the contribution of women and their work has been systematically discredited, devalued and derided, their light has d
CCCB
Una història secreta: la informàtica femenina
CCCB
~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.
The Guardian
Without these women, man would not have walked on the moon
The Guardian
~11 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 some of those women
