Pioneers in Informatics #media

Beginning on Monday (12/3/2012), Radio Österreich (Austrian public radio) will be running a series on gender and computer science. I was interviewed for the project, and so if you want... more

Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics #media

On Friday, October 19, I will be giving a lecture at the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics on my work on gender and computing. The title of the talk... more

The Computer Girls #media

My research on the history of women in computer programming has been getting some national media attention lately. While I am told that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,... more

Stanford University: Making Programming Masculine #media

On February 28 I will be giving a talk at Stanford on gender issues in the history of the computing professions. The seminar is being jointly hosted by the program... more

Is Chess the Drosophila of AI? #media #research

A couple of years ago I presented a paper at the University of Minneapolis on my ongoing research project on computerized decision models. Although the paper was ostensibly about computer... more

History of Software, European Styles #media #research

On September 13 I will be giving a keynote address at the Software for Europe conference at the Lorentz Center for the Sciences in the Netherlands. The talk will focus... more

Managing your digital persona #media

Academic careers are based on reputation, and for younger scholars at least part of that reputation is based on your online persona. But online personas are notoriously difficult to manage... more

Inception in the Classroom #media #teaching

In the last lecture of my Information Age course, I discussed the problem of privacy in the Internet era. As one of my examples, I referred to the popular campus... more

Engineering a Professional Identity #media

This week I will be attending the IEEE Conference on the History of Technical Societies. This is part of a larger celebration of the IEEE’s 125th Anniversary. I gave a... more

Information Technology, Organizations, and Work Processes #media

This week I will be in Copenhagen to comment on papers for a conference on information technology and work processes. An excellent program of papers on everything from software development... more