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March 20, 2025 Musings

Trailer: When women were computers

I was invited to give a talk as part of Vox Feminarum’s Women’s Voices History Month and so to have a bit of fun and refresh my memory about the content, I created a trailer for it.

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September 18, 2024 Musings

Fighting, typing, and computing

Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been

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September 17, 2024 Musings

When women were computers

The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid

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May 15, 2022 Musings

The uncanny valley

Last weekend I watched The Irishman, (2019), Martin Scorsese’s film about hit man Frank Sheeran looking back at his life

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January 29, 2022 Musings

What’s my why?

This week, I have been thinking in a deep work kind of way about a project which has the potential

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