Computer Science

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Contents 1 Issues 2 Overview 3 Women in Computer Science 3.1 Others 4 Opinions 5 Resources

[edit] Issues

Limited education:

Women entering computer science undergraduate and postgraduate education frequently do not have the previous exposure to computing tools that some of the male students will have due to strong encouragement from parents, teachers, etc not to spend all their free time (or any of it) messing around on computers.

[edit] Overview

The following articles show some of the main issues:

• In computer science, a growing gender gap (Boston Globe)
• Women in Computer Science (O'Reilly Radar)
• Wikipedia - Women in Computing
• Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
• Women in Computer Science Academia

[edit] Women in Computer Science

• Frances E. Allen
• Fran Bilas — programmer of ENIAC
• Anita Borg
• Jeri Ellsworth — creator of the C64 Direct-to-TV
• Sally Floyd — Transmission Control Protocol
• Adele Goldberg — co-developed Smalltalk language
• Shafi Goldwasser — theoretical computer scientist
• Grace Hopper — wrote first ever compiler for computer programs, developed COBOL programming language
• Betty Jennings — programmer of ENIAC
• Mary Lou Jepsen — OLPC founder
• Karen Spärck Jones
• Susan Kare — UI expert, worked on original Macintosh interface
• Ruth Lichterman — programmer of ENIAC
• Barbara Liskov — first American female Doctorate of Computer Science
• Ada Lovelace — worked on first computer, invented/discovered recursion in computer programming
• Kay McNulty — programmer of ENIAC
• Radia Perlman — invented Spanning Tree Protocol
• Jean E. Sammet — developed FORMAC programming language
• Betty Snyder — programmer of ENIAC
• Eva Tardos — algorithms
• Xiaoyuan Tu
• Marlyn Wescoff — programmer of ENIAC
• Roberta Williams — computer graphics/games pioneer
• Jeannette Wing

[edit] Others

• See List of women in Computer Science

[edit] Opinions

• Women in Science (Philip Greenspun on increasing women in academic careers)

[edit] Resources

• Links to many articles on the subject
• General/international/broad-based groups
  • WCS
  • Association for Women in Computing
  • Systers Mailing list
• Local groups
  • Stanford Women in Computer Science
  • Women @ SCS (Carnegie Mellon University)