From: Youngs, Dr G. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:50 AM
To: John Armitage (E-mail)
Subject: FW: [womenconnectuk] Historical query - women in computing


For the cybersociety list forwarded from the womenconnectuk list. best.
Gillian

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From: Sue Black [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 March 2001 16:57
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Subject: RE: [womenconnectuk] Historical query - women in computing


Hi,

Yes please forward to relevant people.

Many thanks

Sue

At 07:48 AM 3/20/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear Sue Black, would you like this forwarded to other relevant lists?
best.
>Gillian Youngs (Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of
>Leicester, UK)
>
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>From: Sue Black [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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>Subject: [womenconnectuk] Historical query - women in computing
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>I am a history professor at the University of Maryland in the U.S. My
>specialty is the history of computing; I published a history of the
>Internet in 1999 (Inventing the Internet, MIT Press). I am currently
>researching the history of women in computing with a grant from the
>National Science Foundation. The project aims to bring the experiences and
>contributions of women to light and to investigate how gender and the
>practice of computing have interacted over time.
>
>A major component of this research will be a series of oral history
>interviews with women in the UK and US who were active in computer
>programming, hardware, or computer science from approximately 1945-1990.
>The interviews will be audiotaped and transcribed, and the transcriptions
>will be archived at the IEEE History Center
>(<http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center).>http://www.ieee.org/or
ganizations/history_center).
>I am also conducting a
>survey to gather basic information on family background, education, and
>work experience of women in computing so I can look for broader trends.
>
>If you were active in computing before 1980 (and especially before 1970), I
>would like to hear from you. I will be making an initial trip to the UK in
>April to conduct interviews, and I will return next fall or winter. Please
>feel free to forward this message to any other women who might be
>interested.
>
>Thanks!
>Janet
>--
>Faculty Research Scholar
>Department of History
>University of Maryland
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