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Robert Caro is by now the most celebrated biographer alive, having won two Pulitzers for biography, two National Book Awards, three National Book Critics Circle awards, and a host of other prizes. …
Opinion | Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn't enough.
In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
The skeleton reveals the hidden role of women in producing medieval manuscripts.
Nice segment on programming ethics.
A pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field.
Evelyn Berezin is known as the inventor of word processing, but the story is much more complicated
Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers
Engineer, physicist, businesswoman, venture capitalist, inventor.
Her device freed secretaries from the typewriter. But as word processing became ubiquitous, it helped eliminate their jobs.
Tech companies ignore labor history at their own peril
Wikipedia had rejected Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland because she wasn't famous enough — Quartz
When her win was announced, a search for Donna Strickland’s name on Wikipedia turned up nothing.
A cautionary tale about how sexism helped destroy British computing.
Before she helped send the first astronauts to the moon, Katherine Johnson was an anonymous “female computer” doing thankless but vital work at NASA.
Gladys West was instrumental in developing the mathematics behind GPS - but until now her story has remained untold.
The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley—And Won;” it’s about the battle to pass a privacy law in the country’s most populous state. It’s great and definitely worth reading, but it forgot something: the woman who helped win the battle.
From this day forward, every time you see the name Roberto Busa invoked as a—or the—founding scholar of either quantitative or computational method in the humanities, we want you to mentally search and replace with another name: Josephine Miles.
Only a small percentage of historical interpreters are black, and Cheyney McKnight is trying to change that.
Scholarly society for engineers and technologists is on blast once again for allegedly minimizing the work of female historians who write about bias against women in technology.
Review: Bow down to Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the mother of American cryptography.