I thought of videos that challenge the Bro Cultures of computer technology and defense.
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Warning! This video does contain many references to violence, but not visually. Could play the first five women, before the video gets more violent.
Faster paced than the above video and covers a wider variety of women, but does not contain explicit references to violence. Could play some of the video and maybe should slow down the video.
Another video listing a variety of women in modern times Could play part of the video.
1:40 to 2:59
The ENIAC’s designers created block diagrams, but did not write instructions for programming.
The women who operated the computer had to figure out how to program it.
I only bother to comment my software code less than half of the time,
even though I will forget what it is doing when reading it a month later. It must be a guy thing.
That seems to be a reoccurring theme in women’s history, guys can’t be bothered with tedious work,
so women are stuck with doing it.
Very short video about the various careers of Grace Hopper. Invented the first compiler program (a program that converts easier to understand code into machine. language). She originated the term “debugging” and standardized COBOL for the Navy?
A very short video about six women programming the ENIAC.
It turns out that women played many key roles in the development of computers, not just being trailblazers for other women, which is uprising because, usually in history, you usually find mostly men, and then … oh yes there were some woman in there somewhere. But, programmable computers replaced the jobs of computers, people who manually performed calculations, usually women, since it took patience. Many of the previous computers, became the first programmers of the new computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computingA TEDx talk about one women giving her perspective in researching the history of the six women who program the ENIAC; being positively surprised that six women were the innovative programmers of ENIAC, but negatively surprised that they have been forgotten.
Gives numerous explanations of why women disappeared from computers. I am shock, because, I honestly think programming is a relatively easy skill, or at least one you can causally learn by reading and typing on a personal computer. But personal computers were marketed as boy toys. Electrical engineering is hard with lots of math, but women were doing lots of math. For me computer engineering is about as easy as software, if I am just focusing on the logical operations of circuits.