The First Rung of the Cosmic Ladder

Vishveshwara, C. V.

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“…Herman Hollerith, its inventor, founded the Tabulating Machine Company that later became IBM (Campbell-Kelly 2018). At the same time, Henrietta Swan Leavitt joined one of the first 'computers' at Harvard, groups of human calculators usually composed by women, since at that time women were not allowed to operate telescopes or other machines (Vishveshwara 2015). She did calculations on measuring and cataloging the brightness of stars, discovering the Cepheid variables, a type of star, that led to the evidence for the expansion of the universe (Johnson 2005).…”

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The Impact of Women in Computer Science History

Mochetti¹

2019

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Women have always played an important role in Computer Science findings, but their importance has always been overshadowed by men. Nowadays, men outnumber women by 3 times on computing occupations in the US, but still women prove to be essential on the development of technological fields. This work intends to place women at the forefront of computer science’s history. In order to demonstrate that their work was essential for the development of current technologies, a broad historical overview is given. This overview is chronologically and thematically structured in several periods, from the early computer machines (before 1900) to our current digital society (after 2010). Finally, an outlook on the role of women in computing is given. A detailed discussion of individual contributions by women would go beyond the scope of this work. Nor can a sociological analysis of the reasons for the gender gap be provided. Nevertheless, the work wants to be more than a mere quantitative enumeration of women’s contributions to computer sciences. The essay wants to plea for the integration of these women in the literature, i.e., in the historiography of computer sciences, which requires to reconsider the self-image of this discipline.

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Section: The Early Computer Machines (Before 1900)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Women in Computer Science History

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2019

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The First Rung of the Cosmic Ladder

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