A History of Computing in the Feminine
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A guided, quiz-style overview of ten notable women in computing—from Hedy Lamarr to contributors across space tech, AI and open source—highlighting their careers and inventions and how their work shaped modern technology. The session mixes quiz questions with concise explanations, aims to recover under-recognized contributions (mentioning the Matilda effect), and is presented as a cultural break for conference attendees.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00History of computing in the feminine
- 1:14Women in computing today
- 2:57Edith Lammar frequency-hopping
- 6:42Ada Lovelace first programmer
- 8:44Margaret Hamilton Apollo safety
- 12:32Mira Murati AI evolution
- 15:02Grace Hopper first compiler
- 17:34Mitchell Baker Mozilla License
- 19:41Joan Clarke Enigma cryptanalysis
- 22:28Dorothy Vaughan NASA computing
- 25:36Adele Goldberg Matilda effect
- 28:24Elizabeth Feinler domain names
- 30:30Alice Recoque AI dangers ACNIL
- 33:25Marian Croak VoIP protocol
- 37:17Women's computing contributions
- 39:21Q&A
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