<div dir="auto">Hi Brian,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thomas J. Misa, ed. Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing (Wiley/IEEE, 2010). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Fundamentally a history volume with chapters from Tom Misa, Mar Hicks, Janet Abbate, Corinna Schlombs, Nathan Ensmenger, Thomas Haigh, me....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best, Jeff</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 8:58 AM Brian Randell via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My apologies, especially to the authors, for any accidental egregious omissions from these lists!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Season’s Greetings<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Brian Randell<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<h1>Books on Women in Computing<u></u><u></u></h1>
<h1>(other than Ada Lovelace)<u></u><u></u></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Janet Abbate. Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. (2017).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recoding-Gender-History-Computing-Abbate/dp/0262534533" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recoding-Gender-History-Computing-Abbate/dp/0262534533</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Crystal Bennes, Klara and the Bomb (2022).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Klara-Bomb-Crystal-Bennes/dp/9492051826" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Klara-Bomb-Crystal-Bennes/dp/9492051826</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kurt W. W. Beyer. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, (2012).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invention-Information-Lemelson-Studies-Innovation/dp/0262517264" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invention-Information-Lemelson-Studies-Innovation/dp/0262517264</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Claire L. Evans. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, (2020).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Broad-Band-Untold-Story-Internet/dp/0593329449/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Broad-Band-Untold-Story-Internet/dp/0593329449/</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David Alan Grier. When Computers Were Human. (2007)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0691133824" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0691133824</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kathy Kleiman. Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer, (2022).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Proving-Ground-Untold-Programmed-Computer/dp/178738862X" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Proving-Ground-Untold-Programmed-Computer/dp/178738862X</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mark Jones Lorenzo. Everlasting Code: The Education of Grace Hopper and the History of COBOL, (2021).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everlasting-Code-Education-Business-Oriented-Language/dp/B09CRQP1Q6" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everlasting-Code-Education-Business-Oriented-Language/dp/B09CRQP1Q6</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Richard Rhodes . Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. (@012)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hedys-Folly-Breakthrough-Inventions-Beautiful/dp/0307742954" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.com/Hedys-Folly-Breakthrough-Inventions-Beautiful/dp/0307742954</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jon T Rickman and Kim D Todd. Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik & the Computer That Changed the World. (2013)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-Programmer-Jennings-Computer-Changed/dp/1612480861" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-Programmer-Jennings-Computer-Changed/dp/1612480861</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carl J Schneider. Grace Murray Hopper: Working to create the future. (1998).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Title-Murray-Hopper-Working-create/dp/1571636064" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Title-Murray-Hopper-Working-create/dp/1571636064</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dame Stephanie Shirley. Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist. (2019).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Go-Extraordinary-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist/dp/0241395496" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Go-Extraordinary-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist/dp/0241395496</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kathleen Broom Williams. Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea, (2013).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grace-Hopper-Admiral-Cyber-Sea/dp/1591149789" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grace-Hopper-Admiral-Cyber-Sea/dp/1591149789</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<h1>Books on Women in Code-Breaking<u></u><u></u></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jason Fagone. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (2017).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062430483/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062430483/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter Hore. Bletchley Park's Secret Source: Churchill's Wrens and the Y Service in World War II, (2021).<u></u><u></u></p>
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bletchleys-Secret-Source-Wrens-Y-Service/dp/1784385816</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Liza Mundy. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. (2018).<u></u><u></u></p>
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Girls-Untold-American-Breakers/dp/0316352543</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Patricia Owtram and Jean Owtram. Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War. (2020).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaking-Sisters-Our-Secret-War/dp/1913406059" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaking-Sisters-Our-Secret-War/dp/1913406059</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-Hut-Six-Experiences/dp/0745956645" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-Hut-Six-Experiences/dp/0745956645</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jan Slimming. Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park. (2021)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaker-Girls-Secret-Life-Bletchley/dp/1526784114" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaker-Girls-Secret-Life-Bletchley/dp/1526784114</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jan Slimming. The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker: Codebreaker Girls. (2022)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-American-Codebreaker-Girls-ebook/dp/B09P47QVDB" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-American-Codebreaker-Girls-ebook/dp/B09P47QVDB</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Smith. The Debs of Bletchley Park. (2015).<u></u><u></u></p>
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Debs-Bletchley-Park-Michael-Smith/dp/1781313881</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Betty Webb and Kerry Howard. No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon. (2023).<u></u><u></u></p>
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Secrets-Codebreaking-Bletchley/dp/B0C43L3MVJ/</a>
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