Recoding gender : women's changing participation in computing / / Janet Abbate

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462151603321
• Autore: Abbate Janet
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2012; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2012]
• ISBN: 1-283-95309-9; 0-262-30546-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 PDF (x, 247 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: History of computing
• Disciplina: 004.082
• Soggetti: Women in computer science; Computer industry; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Rediscovering Women's History in Computing -- 1. Breaking Codes and Finding Trajectories: Women at the Dawn of the Digital Age -- 2. Seeking the Perfect Programmer: Gender and Skill in Early Data Processing -- 3. Software Crisis or Identity Crisis? Gender, Labor, and Programming Methods -- 4. Female Entrepreneurs: Reimagining Software as a Business -- 5. Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms -- Appendix: Oral History Interviews Conducted for This Project.
• Sommario/riassunto: Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computer geek" seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain. Indeed, programming in postwar years was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she ; offers a valuable historical perspective on today's concerns over women's underrepresentation in the field. Abbate describes the experiences of women who worked with the earliest electronic digital computers: Colossus, the wartime codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park outside London, and the American ENIAC, developed to calculate ballistics. She examines postwar methods for recruiting programmers, and the 1960s redefinition of programming as the more masculine "software engineering." She describes the social and business innovations of two early software entrepreneurs, Elsie Shutt and Stephanie Shirley; and she examines the career paths of women in academic computer science. Abbate's account of the bold and creative strategies of women who loved computing work, excelled at it, and forged successful careers will provide inspiration for those working to change gendered computing culture.

A catalogue of the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, barons, of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with their names, sirnames, and titles of honour [[electronic resource] ] : With the Knights of the Garter, knight baronets of England, and Scotland, Knights of the Bath, from the first of King Iames, and knight bachelors, from the first of King Charles, to this present. / / Collected by T.W

• Record Nr.: UNISA996391857903316
• Autore: Walkley Thomas <d. 1658?>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Printed at London, : by I. Dawson, for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Flying Horse, betweene Yorke-house, and Brittains-Burse, 1642
• Descrizione fisica: [8], 163, [1] p
• Soggetti: Nobility - England; Nobility - Scotland; Nobility - Ireland
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: T.W. = Thomas Walkley.; An updated edition of: A most exact catalogue of the nobilitie of England, Scotland, and Ireland.; The first leaf is blank.; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018