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Interests: Embodiment, Game Design!Play, Music, Interface design, creative
practice and increasing the participation of women in STEM and ITC
We invented programming: the mirco processor the compiler cobalt the OS natural language processing the spanning tree protocol COBOL and on and on and on….
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Credits… Programming (Ada Lovelace) The first widely used computer language (Jean E. Sammet) First generative programming system (Betty Holberton) Helped develop Basic (Sister Mary Keller) First computerized telephone switching system that used a computer to monitor incoming calls. We still use it today. (Erna Schneider Hoover) Natural language processing for search engines still used today by Google (Karen Sparck Jones) The microcomputer / AKA ARM - the small chips in everything (Sophie Wilson) Spanning Tree Protocol (without this? No internet) Radia Perlman – mother of the internet The term bug and the COBOL language – Grace Hooper The operating system (Mary Allen Wilkes) Anita Borg – Pioneering advocate for women in the field !Programming, The Mircorprocessor, The Compiler, Cobalt, the OS, Natural Language Processing, The Spanning Tree Protocol, COBOL and on and on and on
A few things you might not have if they were not in the field include your phone, the internet, every piece of software on your laptop, google & your operating system…
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As long as computing was seen as secretarial & had little financial benefit, society was fine with letting women invent, run and innovate in the field.
Because it became associated with typing and secretarial duties, programming was even considered
women’s work
April, 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan, "The Computer Girls“
If it doesn't sound like woman's work -- well, it just is.... "
It was an expensive item so it was targeted at the family bread winner. The advertising took sexism to a new level. It created the impression that
computers were not for women.
This advertising tactic worked. Men started buying computers. It ramped up to an extreme in console gaming in the 90’s. Gaming was depicted as something only little boys or men did. The ads are either male dominated or disturbingly misogynistic.
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http://www.oecd.org/gender/data/percentageoftertiaryqualificationsawardedtowomenbyfieldofeducation.htm
Computer Science 101 in C++
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Creative Approaches to problem solving in Science and Engineering using Python
Bossed up A Nicki Minaj-Themed Game Jam !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzGZamtlRP0&feature=youtu.be
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Intensive skill dumps pre jam• Women only chance to intro basic cs topics • Two 3 hour sessions where we intro a new platform in a
targeted way geared to making • No separation of creation and code • Zero knowledge assumed. • No coder left behind.
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http://itch.io/jam/gamerella-2014#entries
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Publish the games on a platform after the jam
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Take aways 1. New skills in context for creative ends 2. Opportunity to apply knowledge 3. Collaborate with others 4. Publish 5. Get recognition !
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