My Experience (so far) as a Woman in CS
Women in STEM! Women in STEM! Women in STEM! It seems as though every conversation I have had with a woman I just met in my major of CS never fails to include the line “women in STEM! That’s us!…
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We need to talk about the women founders of modern science: Meet Tu You You
Tu YouYou is a medical scientist and chemist who became the first mainland Chinese to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for her discovery of Malaria cure. Born in 1930, Tu attended the Peking University School of Medicine (now Beijing Medical…
We need to talk about the women founders of modern science: Meet Ruby Payne-Scott
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian Radiophysicist who lived from 1912 to 1981. As Master’s holder in Physics from the University of Sydney, Ruby worked at Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. There she worked on projects that…
Computer Programming: A Women’s History
I always found it interesting how people tend to see computer science and coding in general as inherently a male-dominated field, despite how the very foundations of computer programming were established by a woman, Ada Lovelace. In the 60s, computer…
Elizebeth Smith Friedman: A Forgotten American Hero
An illustrated tribute to the most brilliant code-breaker you’ve never heard of. Ever since reading The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, I have been fascinated by the life of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a woman who was by all means…