Congratulations to CSS PhD student Alex Mirowski on the publication of his article “At the Electronic Crossroads Once Again: The Myth of the Modern Computer Utility in the United States” in the most recent issue of the IEEE …
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In an excellent article on why software developers need to educated more broadly in the humanities and social sciences, software engineer Tracy Chou provides an insightful description of the inherently social nature of technical activities:
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Women in Engineering
This week in my Technology & Gender seminar, we read and discussed Ruth Oldenziel’s Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945. As a complementary exercise, I had my students analyze a set of primary source …
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Yesterday was the first meeting of my graduate seminar on Technology & Gender (for a full syllabus and bibliography on women in computing, see the course Github). Since this course has a strong historical component — and because we …
Mistakes were Made
Professor Eden Medina will be giving the Keynote address at the forthcoming conference at New York University:
… Read moreIt’s an old adage that journalists write the first draft of history, and historians compose the second. But what happens after that? Now
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
On March 7, 2016 Professor Nathan Ensmenger will be hosting a screening of the film CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap at the IU Cinema. The CODE documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the …
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