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Evans, Claire Lisa.
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Women computer scientists -- Biography.
Computer scientists -- Biography.
Computer science -- History.
Internet and women.
Internet -- History.
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Evans, Claire Lisa.
Women computer scientists -- Biography.
Computer scientists -- Biography.
Computer science -- History.
Internet and women.
Internet -- History.
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Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet / Claire L. Evans.
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Evans, Claire Lisa.
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
Call #:
004
.0922
E92b
Subjects
Women computer scientists -- Biography.
Computer scientists -- Biography.
Computer science -- History.
Internet and women.
Internet -- History.
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Listen to an interview with author Claire Evans on YouTube.
ISBN:
9780735211759 (hc.)
Description:
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.
Summary:
"The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation - they've just been erased from the story. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. Claire L. Evans gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the women who made the internet what it is today. Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. How these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. Women have embraced technology from the start. Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. She is the singer and coauthor of the pop group Yacht."--Provided by publisher.
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