[SIGCIS-Members] Books on Women in Computing

Mon Dec 18 07:30:23 PST 2023

My recommendation:

Mar Hicks. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists
and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) (2018)
https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Inequality-Discarded-Technologists-Computing/dp/0262535181

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 9:00 AM Brian Randell via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Hi:
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> We are planning to provide a permanent display in our School of Computing,
> in a prominent location that will be readily visible to our undergraduate
> students in particular, of published books on Women in Computing. The hope
> is that this might help to redress the imbalance in the students’ popular
> perception of computing pioneers as being an almost entirely male crew.
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> I attach below a first list of contenders (other than Ada Lovelace) for
> space in this display – comments, both positive and negative, on this list
> will be welcome. (Ada Lovelace will of course be well-represented – however
> I’ve already had detailed advice on which of the plethora of works on Ada
> to include, so I’m keen to make sure that other worthy contenders for
> display space are not accidently omitted. At present it is undecided
> whether to include, and if so whether to have a separate set of books on,
> Women in Code-Breaking – see the presently-separate second list below, on
> which comments are also sought.)
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> I’m looking for biographies, autobiographies, and good scholarly accounts
> on the contribution of women to the computing world, not books aimed at
> young school pupils. The plan is that copies of all the books on display
> will also be available for borrowing from the University Library.
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> My apologies, especially to the authors,  for any accidental egregious
> omissions from these lists!
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> Season’s Greetings
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> Brian Randell
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> Books on Women in Computing (other than Ada Lovelace)
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> Janet Abbate. Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in
> Computing. (2017).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recoding-Gender-History-Computing-Abbate/dp/0262534533
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> Crystal Bennes, Klara and the Bomb (2022).
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>    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Klara-Bomb-Crystal-Bennes/dp/9492051826
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> Kurt W. W. Beyer. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age,
> (2012).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invention-Information-Lemelson-Studies-Innovation/dp/0262517264
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> Claire L. Evans. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the
> Internet, (2020).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Broad-Band-Untold-Story-Internet/dp/0593329449/
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> David Alan Grier. When Computers Were Human. (2007)
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>    https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0691133824
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> Kathy Kleiman. Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who
> Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer, (2022).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Proving-Ground-Untold-Programmed-Computer/dp/178738862X
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> Mark Jones Lorenzo. Everlasting Code: The Education of Grace Hopper and
> the History of COBOL, (2021).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everlasting-Code-Education-Business-Oriented-Language/dp/B09CRQP1Q6
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> Richard Rhodes . Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of
> Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. (@012)
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> https://www.amazon.com/Hedys-Folly-Breakthrough-Inventions-Beautiful/dp/0307742954
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> Jon T Rickman and Kim D Todd. Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik &
> the Computer That Changed the World. (2013)
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-Programmer-Jennings-Computer-Changed/dp/1612480861
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> Carl J Schneider. Grace Murray Hopper: Working to create the future.
> (1998).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Title-Murray-Hopper-Working-create/dp/1571636064
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> Dame Stephanie Shirley. Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee
> to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist. (2019).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Go-Extraordinary-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist/dp/0241395496
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> Kathleen Broom Williams. Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea, (2013).
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>    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grace-Hopper-Admiral-Cyber-Sea/dp/1591149789
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> Books on Women in Code-Breaking
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> Jason Fagone. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies,
> and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (2017).
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>    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062430483/
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> Peter Hore. Bletchley Park's Secret Source: Churchill's Wrens and the Y
> Service in World War II, (2021).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bletchleys-Secret-Source-Wrens-Y-Service/dp/1784385816
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> Liza Mundy. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code
> Breakers of World War II. (2018).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Girls-Untold-American-Breakers/dp/0316352543
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> Patricia Owtram and Jean Owtram. Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War.
> (2020).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaking-Sisters-Our-Secret-War/dp/1913406059
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> Mair Russell-Jones and Gethin Russell-Jones. My Secret Life in Hut Six:
> One Woman's Experiences At Bletchley Park, (2014).
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>    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-Hut-Six-Experiences/dp/0745956645
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> Jan Slimming. Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park. (2021)
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaker-Girls-Secret-Life-Bletchley/dp/1526784114
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> Jan Slimming. The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker
> Girls. (2022)
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-American-Codebreaker-Girls-ebook/dp/B09P47QVDB
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> Michael Smith. The Debs of Bletchley Park. (2015).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Debs-Bletchley-Park-Michael-Smith/dp/1781313881
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> Betty Webb and Kerry Howard. No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at
> Bletchley Park and the Pentagon. (2023).
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> https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Secrets-Codebreaking-Bletchley/dp/B0C43L3MVJ/
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> —
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