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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There are some oral histories with women in the project From computing machines to IT, in which we documented the history of computer use in Sweden
before 1980:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004735/1339755638197/56_Gunhild_Agn%C3%A9r_Sigbo.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004735/1339755638197/56_Gunhild_Agn%C3%A9r_Sigbo.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004762/1339755637089/107_Gunnel_Atterfelt.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004762/1339755637089/107_Gunnel_Atterfelt.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004772/1339755637557/15_Marie-Louise_Bachman.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004772/1339755637557/15_Marie-Louise_Bachman.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004797/1339755637698/24_Monica_Bratt.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6ab3c5301250cdc06c380004797/1339755637698/24_Monica_Bratt.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800014/1339755637167/112_Gunilla_Carl%C3%A9n.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800014/1339755637167/112_Gunilla_Carl%C3%A9n.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800025/1339755637822/31_Malin_Edstr%C3%B6m.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800025/1339755637822/31_Malin_Edstr%C3%B6m.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800064/1339755638727/8_Birgitta_Frejhagen.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800064/1339755638727/8_Birgitta_Frejhagen.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800081/1339755638150/53_Ulla_Gerdin.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800081/1339755638150/53_Ulla_Gerdin.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800087/1339755637058/105_Kerstin_Gunnarsson.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe9610800087/1339755637058/105_Kerstin_Gunnarsson.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000125/1339755637932/4_Sture_och_Ann-Charlotte_Johannesson.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000125/1339755637932/4_Sture_och_Ann-Charlotte_Johannesson.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000139/1339755638758/81_Anita_Kollerbaur.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000139/1339755638758/81_Anita_Kollerbaur.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000141/1339755637401/133_Anita_Kollerbaur.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000141/1339755637401/133_Anita_Kollerbaur.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000276/1339755637448/136_Ulla_Riis.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000276/1339755637448/136_Ulla_Riis.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000292/1339755638041/46_Kerstin_Sj%C3%B6berg.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000292/1339755638041/46_Kerstin_Sj%C3%B6berg.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000316/1339755638478/60_Anna_S%C3%A5gvall_Hein.pdf">http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/download/18.6aa228912529fe96108000316/1339755638478/60_Anna_S%C3%A5gvall_Hein.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I think there are two more available at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Gustav<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Janet Abbate<br>
<b>Sent:</b> den 4 februari 2015 16:05<br>
<b>To:</b> Sigcis<br>
<b>Cc:</b> melissaterras@gmail.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Query about non-English computing oral histories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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">index of the works of St Thomas Aquinas</a>." <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-lovelace-day-father-busas.html">http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-lovelace-day-father-busas.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Melissa Terras <<a href="mailto:melissaterras@gmail.com">melissaterras@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Date:
</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">February 3, 2015 6:21:12 AM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Subject: Oral History of women computer programmers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear Janet,<br>
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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.co.uk/2013/10/for-ada-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. Any pointers gratefully received - or confirmation that you haven’t seen anything in any other language
other than English would be useful, too! <br>
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best,<br>
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Melissa<o:p></o:p></p>
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Blog: <a href="http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/">http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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