{"id":705,"date":"2018-08-07T09:03:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2018-08-07T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:22:02","slug":"interview-with-dame-stephanie-shirley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Dame Stephanie Shirley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great fortune to interview Dame Stephanie &#8220;Steve&#8221; Shirley for the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. A child refugee from Nazi Germany, she went on to found a feminist software startup at a time when few people even knew what software was, and even fewer cared about feminist business models that put women&#8217;s needs first. She and her mostly-women employees wrote \u00a0some of the most important software for 20th century British industry and government&#8211;including programming the black box flight \u00a0recorder for the Concorde. She eventually became a billionaire and now focuses on philanthropy&#8211;particularly autism related causes. She was also the founding donor of the Oxford Internet Institute. Listen &amp; watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/collections\/catalog\/102738708\">here<\/a>\u00a0or read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/collections\/catalog\/102738707\">here<\/a>. The interview was conducted over video link between her home in London and my home in the US. It runs about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>For a much longer and more exhaustive oral history (many hours) check out Dr. Tom Lean&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sounds.bl.uk\/Oral-history\/Science\/021M-C1379X0028XX-0001V0\">interview<\/a> with her for the British Library Oral History &#8220;voices of science&#8221; collection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great fortune to interview Dame Stephanie &#8220;Steve&#8221; Shirley for the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. A child refugee from Nazi Germany, she went on to found a feminist software startup at a time when few people even knew what software was, and even fewer cared about feminist business models that put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25,33],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing","category-sts","category-women-in-computing","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}