Historicizing Masculinities Colloquium #media

On May 20, 2015 I will be presenting my work on the history of masculinity in the computing professions at the UCLA Historicizing Masculinities Colloquium. more

The History of Women in Programming #media

The public radio show Backstory devoted an entire show to the history of Women at Work. One of the segments is called Binary Coeds: The Secret History of Women in... more

2015 Badash Memorial Lecture #media

I am pleased and honored to have been invited to give the 2015 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture in the History of Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. I... more

The Computer Boys in the News #media #research

My first book, The Computer Boys Take Over, has been attracting attention in the news recently, largely because of its discussion of gender and computer programming. This article in Fastcompany... more

When Good Software Goes Bad #research #media

For the upcoming MICE (Mistakes, Ignorance, Contingency, and Error) Conference in Munich I have prepared a paper entitled “When Good Software Goes Bad: The Surprising Durability of an Ephemeral Technology.”... more

2013 Fall Conferences & Talks #media

It has been a busy month of conferences and speaking engagements. The Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing hosted the second in a series of HAPOC conferences in Paris this year.... more

Computing at the National Academy of Sciences #media

This week the National Academy of Sciences is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a Sackler Colloquium called “Celebrating Service to the Nation.” Among other things, they are hosting a series of... more

Chess as Drosophila awarded 2013 Maurice Daumas Prize #publications #research #media

My article “Is Chess the Drosophila of AI? a Social History of an Algorithm” (Social Studies of Science, 2012) was recently awarded the 2013 Maurice Daumas Prize by the International... more

Review of Turing's Cathedral #media

Writing book reviews is one of the more important but least rewarded of all academic activities. Every professional researcher, particularly those in the humanities and social sciences, relies extensively on... more

ACM Inroads - A call for champions #teaching #media

The ACM journal Inroads, which is aimed at computer science educators, recently published an article on the teaching of the history of computing that discusses one of my courses. The... more