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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Dear Janet, Melissa,<br>
I conducted a series of interview with women computers from the 1950s in Dutch. The results are not online. Contact me off list for the details.<br>
Kind regards, Gerard Alberts<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF131245"><font size="2" face="Tahoma" color="#000000"><b>Van:</b> members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] namens Janet Abbate [abbate@vt.edu]<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> woensdag 4 februari 2015 16:04<br>
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<b>CC:</b> melissaterras@gmail.com<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Query about non-English computing oral histories<br>
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<div>I am forwarding a query from Melissa Terras, who asks if anyone knows of oral histories of women in computing that are not in English. Does anyone know of any?
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<div>Melissa has a blog with information about early women in computing in Italy (see link below) that may be of interest to SIGCIS members. "From 1949, an Italian Jesuit priest called
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Father Roberto Busa</a> (November 13, 1913 – August 9, 2011) pioneered the use of computing for linguistic and literary analysis, teaming up with IBM to produce an
<a href="http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/it/index.age" target="_blank">index of the works of St Thomas Aquinas</a>." </div>
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<div><a href="http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-lovelace-day-father-busas.html" target="_blank">http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-lovelace-day-father-busas.html</a></div>
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<div>thanks,</div>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium">Melissa Terras <<a href="mailto:melissaterras@gmail.com" target="_blank">melissaterras@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium">February 3, 2015 6:21:12 AM EST<br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><a href="mailto:abbate@vt.edu" target="_blank">abbate@vt.edu</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Oral History of women computer programmers</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><a href="mailto:m.terras@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.terras@ucl.ac.uk</a><br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Dear Janet,<br>
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<span>I hope you dont mind me writing. I’m a big fan of your book, Recoding Gender, Women's Changing Participation in Computing, which has been an invaluable help as I work with a colleague on a slice of computing history in my discipline (humanities computing,
now known as digital humanities): we have been undertaking an oral history of women in Italy that helped with the first major project in Humanities Computing in the 1950s. See my blog post
<a href="http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-lovelace-day-father-busas.html" target="_blank">
http://melissaterras.blogspot.<wbr>co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-<wbr>lovelace-day-father-busas.html</a> which kicked this all off - following putting these pics up, we managed to identify various surviving women in the pictures. We’re writing up our findings now,
after a successful trip to Milan to meet with and interview them.<br>
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My question is this - all the oral histories of women in the early days of computing I can find are in the English language. Would you know of any other set of oral histories in this area that are not undertaken in English? I have had a good look, but can’t
dig anything up, and thought I would drop you a line! I know that you undertook some interviews with Estonian computer programmers - were those in English or Estonian?
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There are obviously methodological issues about using oral histories in translation, and comparing our approach to others in this area would be very useful.
<span><span>Any pointers gratefully received - or confirmation that you haven’t seen anything in any other language other than English would be useful, too!
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Melissa<br>
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