Women in CS Ciarán Llachlan Leavitt Imager Lab, Dept. of Computer Science & Vania Chan CPSC 101 TA
Why Look at Women in CS? Give a sense of range Provide role models Inspiration Balance For any group to be excluded overtly or culturally from powerful career positions, or to have their contributions erased from smacks of sexism/racism.
Some Women to Watch For Sherry Turkle Meg Whitman Fran Allen Maria Klawe
Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor (of the Social Studies of Science and Technology) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Focuses on the relationships between things and thinking Identity, gender, and the Internet
Meg Whitman CEO Ebay since 1998 Bachelor of Economics from Princeton University MBA from Harvard Business School. She is one of only five women on Earth to have been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine. Board of Directors - DreamWorks Animation
Fran Allen 2007: 1st female recipient of A.M. Turing Award Pioneer in compiler optimization. Formed PTRAN to study issues in parallel translation (computing) 1997: became the 1st female IBM Fellow
Maria Klawe Past Dept. Head here. Past Dean of Sch. App. Eng. Sci. at Princeton Currently President Harvey Mudd College Educated in Canada (U of A) Gender, Lies, and Video Games: The Truth about Females and Computing