Mar Hicks
Historian & Author
Andrina Wood, an early British computer expert, at the console of a British Tablulating Machines computer. Andrina Wood, an early British computer expert, at the console of a British Tablulating Machines computer.

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'The Book of Queer' to Premiere on Discovery+ in June

April 27, 2022

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It's Okay to Opt Out of the Crypto Revolution

April 21, 2022

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Women in Tech Have Been Pulling a 'Second Shift' for Decades

February 8, 2022

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The Right Time to Yell "Fire!"

Best Business Books 2021

November 8, 2021

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Ethical AI Trained on Reddit Posts Said Genocide Is Okay If It Makes People Happy

Motherboard - Tech by Vice

November 3, 2021

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Facebook's Fall From Grace Looks a Lot Like Ford's

October 14, 2021

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Your Computer Is On Fire: A Discussion with Authors Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip

Centre for Data Culture & Society

September 22, 2021

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The Voices of Women in Tech Are Still Being Erased

August 3, 2021

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No Cure: Review of Your Computer Is On Fire

June 2, 2021

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Your Computer Is On Fire: Book Launch with the Editors

Oxford Internet Institute

June 1, 2021

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Your Computer Is On Fire review: Wake up to tech's inequalities

April 7, 2021

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Chasing White Supremacy into Tech's Lairs

April 4, 2021

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The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accents (Excerpt from Your Computer Is On Fire)

April 3, 2021

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How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks

Tech Won't Save Us

Mar 18, 2021

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Your Computer Is On Fire Draws on Tech History to Critique AI and the Cloud

March 11, 2021

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Your Computer Is On Fire with Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip

March 10, 2021

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Britain's Sexist Campaign to Sell Computers

The Reader

Februrary 12, 2021

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Computational Technologies

Media, Technology & Culture

February 5, 2021

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Google Union Organizers Could Face Retaliatory Action, Legal Expert Says

Day 6

January 8, 2021

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Where Regulation Has Failed, Could a Workers’ Union Hold Google to Account?

Tech Monitor

January 7, 2021

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Listed on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List
(includes nonbinary people)

Women in AI Ethics

December 5, 2020

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2019 Best Paper Award

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

IEEE Computer Society Publications Board

December 1, 2020

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Queen of Code (1943) w/ Mar Hicks

This Day in Esoteric Political History

November 22, 2020

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The Code That Controls Your Money

Money & The World

November 10, 2020

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You Watched 'The Social Dilemma.' Read These Eleven Books Next

September 30, 2020

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Reading List: The Social Dilemma

The Mozilla Foundation

September 29, 2020

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Built to Last: Don't Blame COBOL. Blame Austerity.

LOGIC #11

August 31, 2020

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University Professors Share Their Thoughts On Colleges Reopening

All Things Considered

August 21, 2020

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University Staff Are Worried Their Recorded Lectures Will Be Used Against Them

August 20, 2020

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Co-Opting AI: GENDER

Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University

May 14, 2020

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A 'perfect storm' for chaos: Unemployment system's failures were a long time coming

May 12, 2020

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The Problem with COBOL

April 28, 2020

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Can You Help Identify Unnamed Women Scientists of the Past?

April 16, 2020

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What Past Disasters Can Teach Us About How to Deal With COVID-19

April 15, 2020

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2018 Award Winner Interviews

The Society for the History of Technology

March 19, 2020

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The Great Google Revolt

March 18, 2020

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How Pets Are Taking Their Thrones as the Stars of the Work-From-Home Paradigm Right Now

March 13, 2020

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Global stocks plunge as coronavirus fears spread

World Business Report

March 12, 2020

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Discussing the Kickstarter Union

February 19, 2020

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A History of Women in British Telecommunications: Introducing a Special Issue

Information & Culture - University of Texas Press

February 1, 2020

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National Archives Blurred Out Anti-Trump Messages In Women's March Photo

The Huffington Post

January 18, 2020

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The Hidden Figures Behind Bletchley Park's Code-Breaking Colossus

December 31, 2019

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2019 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

American Historical Association

December 1, 2019

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The Lines of Code That Changed Everything

Slate: Future Tense

October 14, 2019

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How a debate about punching Nazis sparked the fight to create tech's first name-brand union

October 10, 2019

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Here's How Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You're Frustrated

September 27, 2019

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Mar Hicks, "The Meta-Narrative of the Machine: Computing and Social Inequalities in Great Britain"

National Humanities Center Podcast

August 26, 2019

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A Bug in the System: What can Ada Lovelace's mistake from 1843 tell us about modern-day biases in software algorithms?

The Secret History of the Future Podcast

August 15, 2019

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Why Thousands Of Amazon Workers Are Striking On Prime Day

The Huffington Post

July 16, 2019

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Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.

July 8, 2019

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El sexismo oculto en la voz de Alexa

June 27, 2019

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Our gender is not for others to decide. A bill for trans people to self-identify is a good start

June 19, 2019

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The Gendered History of Human Computers

June, 2019

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The Enduring, Intoxicating Appeal of the "Secret Crush"

May 28, 2019

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Gender, race and social change in Tech

TechCrunch : Extra Crunch

May 22, 2019

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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

May 20, 2019

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Early Libertarian Dreams of a Free Internet Didn’t Work Out as Planned

Slate: If Then

May 8, 2019

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Technology's Gender and Sexuality Blindspot

Big Picture, The View From Lewis College

Spring, 2019

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A Job for the Boys

BBC Radio 4

April 1, 2019

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What Makes a History "Hidden"?

The MIT Press Blog

March 29, 2019

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Episode 37: The History of Gender in Computing with Historian Mar Hicks

She Who Persisted, the Nasty Podcast

March 20, 2019

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Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks

March 18, 2019

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The Secret History of Women in Coding

The New York Times Magazine

February 13, 2019

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Programmed Inequality: A 2018 Bestseller at the MIT Press Bookstore

MIT Press

February 1, 2019

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Review of Programmed Inequality

Jonnie Penn on H-Net

February 1, 2019

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Finding Lena, The Patron Saint of JPEGs

wired.com

January 31, 2019

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La computadora tiene cara de mujer
(The Computer Has a Women's Face)

infobae

January 22, 2019

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Review: Programmed Inequality

H / Soz / Kult

January 16, 2019

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Mackenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder

wired.com

January 11, 2019

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Review of Programmed Inequality

Aurelio Cianciotta on Neural.it

January 11, 2019

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Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the

Business Archives Council's Wadsworth Prize

November 15, 2018

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The Long History Behind the Google Walkout

November 9, 2018

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Before Algorithms: A History of Bias and Oppression in Computing (video)

digital HKS

November 8, 2018

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Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the

North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Stansky Book Prize

October 25, 2018

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Mar Hicks: "We Belong"

Stayin' Alive in Technology Podcast

October 18, 2018

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From the Birth of Computing to Amazon: Why Tech’s Gender Problem is Nothing New

October 12, 2018

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Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the

Society for the History of Technology's Sally Hacker Book Prize

October 11, 2018

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Was Der Code Verrät

Forbes (German)

October 10, 2018

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Debates on Artificial Intelligence: Arts vs. Technology?
Interview with GDI Researcher Zhan Li

Artificial intelligence, equality and social justice

September 24, 2018

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How To Kill Your Tech Industry

LOGIC #5

September 18, 2018

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Fixing Tech's Built-In Bias

American Scientist

September 1, 2018

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A Convenient Excuse: Tech's Discrimination Problem

The H-Net Book Channel

June 1, 2018

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The changing role of women in British computing

May 2018

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Three-dozen summer reading recommendations from faculty and staff

Penn Today

May 24, 2018

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Storm Clouds

May 15, 2018

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Oral History of Dame Stephanie Shirley

May 8, 2018

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Girls Who Coded: Gender in Twentieth Century U.K. and U.S. Computing

Review

May 7, 2018

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2018-2019 Fellows

National Humanities Center

April 27, 2018

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AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?

Select Commitee on Artificial Intelligence

April 16, 2018

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Programmed Inequality with Mar Hicks

The Women in Tech Show

April 16, 2018

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Black and Hispanic underrepresentation in tech: It's time to change the equation

March 28, 2018

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How Women Got Squeezed out of Tech
(my remarks begin at the 9 minute mark)

BBC World Service Business Daily

March 8, 2018

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The Storytellers: 12 women shining a spotlight on women in STEM

March 7, 2018

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Book review: Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks

Engineering and Technology

February 13, 2018

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Computer Dating: Women Tech Innovators

Professor Buzzkill

February 13, 2018

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Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the

PROSE Award for History of Science, Technology & Medicine

February 8, 2018

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"Be Mine"
(History of computer dating goes from 8:50 - 15:22)

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

February 6, 2018

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Mar Hicks on Programmed Inequality in conversation with documentarian Melissa Pierce

The Seminary Co-op : Open Stacks

February 4, 2018

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Elizebeth Smith Friedman: 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes'

January 6, 2018

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Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing (For the article "The Mother of All Swipes")

Longreads

December 27, 2017

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Episode 4: Technology and Women's Labor

Lady Science Podcast

December 12, 2017

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The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave—Men Pushed Them Out

December 10, 2017

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The Numbers of Women in Tech Rise and Fall, But Sexual Harassment is Ever Present

View From the Valley

December 8, 2017

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Programmed Inequality

CHM Live

December 6, 2017

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Woman Crush Wednesday: Stephanie Shirley

Professor Buzzkill

November 1, 2017

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Stereotypen befallen uns alle (Stereotypes Affect Us All)

Frauen/Männer (Women/Men)

November 11, 2017

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Programmed Inequality: Women and British Computing

Professor Buzzkill

October 11, 2017

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Why Discrimination Against Women Destroyed the British Computing Industry and Why We Should Care

October 5, 2017

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Women once powered the tech industry. Can they do it again?

ScienceNode

October 2, 2017

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Reprogramming History

University of Wisconsin-Madison

September 12, 2017

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Women in Tech

CounterSpin on FAIR

August 25, 2017

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Why Women Programmers Were the Foundation of the Computing Age, and Where They Went

August 17, 2017

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"Science Doesn't Explain Tech's Diversity Problem - History Does"

August 16, 2017

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Global news and analysis

The World This Weekend

August 13, 2017

Sexism In Tech Industry
(starts at 22:20)

Central Time

August 11, 2017

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How the tech industry wrote women out of history

August 10, 2017

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What the Google gender ‘manifesto’ really says about Silicon Valley

August 10, 2017

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Op Ed

Memo to the Google memo writer: Women were foundational to the field of computing

August 9, 2017

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Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you

August 9, 2017

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Interviewed by Jenni Murray

BBC 4: Woman's Hour

July 6, 2017

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Gender, Pop Culture, and Politics in Technology: Lessons from the Past

June 28, 2017

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"Programmed Inequality"

These Vibes Are Too Cosmic

June 27, 2017

Non-itunes link

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Structural Inequality and Technological Consequences:
The Case of British Computing

Oxford Internet Institute

June 1, 2017

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The Mother of All Swipes

LOGIC Magazine

June 1, 2017

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Databite No. 97: Why Should We Care About the Failure of The British Computing Industry?

Data & Society

April 19, 2017

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Late Night Live: The History of Women Codebreakers

Australian Broadcasting Company

April 18, 2017

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Reading List for a New World Order

The Chronicle of Higher Education

April 9, 2017

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Book of the Week: Programmed Inequality

April 6, 2017

"What Happens When Women Are Pushed Out Of The Tech Industry?"

WUNC: The State of Things

April 5, 2017

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"Women’s Role in Global Technological History"

WGN Radio: The Opening Bell

April 5, 2017

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Interview: Programmed Inequality - How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

New Books Network

March 28, 2017

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Mar Hicks & Programmed Inequality

New Book Network: Gender Studies Podcast

March 28, 2017

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"The Hidden Figures of the British Computer Industry"

The MIT Press Blog

February 27, 2017

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Movie Review of Hidden Figures

February 13, 2017

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Hidden Histories of Computing Reading List

The Seminary Co-Op Critical Reads

February 5, 2017

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"How Tech's Gender Gap Influences a Country's Computing Power"

ChicagoInno.com

February 3, 2017

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"Womyn Historical Figures with Mar Hicks"

WIIT's Womyn Power Hour

hosted by Gabbi Henderson and Jenny Pitcher
(See their page)

February 1, 2017

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"This Illinois Tech Class Puts Women Back in Computing History"

ChicagoInno.com

December 22, 2016

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"We Asked The Experts To Predict The Future Of UK Politics After Brexit"

BuzzFeed News

July 2, 2016

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"The Design of the Wrigley Scoreboard: Revolutionary, Retro or Both?"

WBEZ: Curious City

September 11, 2015

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"Oxford University went co-ed 40 years ago. And look how far we've come"

June 21, 2014

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"How the Computer Changed the Office Forever"

BBC News

August 1, 2013

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"Brograms and the Power of Vaporware"

Computer History Museum Blog

March 27, 2013

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