Women in TechPast, Present and Future

morgan senkal @morganpdx

The Past

Ada Lovelace

“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”

– Lord Byron

Charles Babbage• Mathematician • Philosopher • Inventor • Mechanical Engineer

What about these women?

ENIACElectronic

Numerical

Integrator

And

Computer

‘Computors'

Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Betty Jean Jennings Ruth Lichterman

Marlyn WescoffElizabeth ‘Betty’ HolbertonFrancis Bilas

“They stepped in to do a job that they didn't understand, that nobody understood. So they had to invent, discover, and learn how to work this machine without any real training. In that sense, they were real trailblazers.”

— Bill Mauchly, son of Kay McNulty

Kathleen “Kay” McNulty

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Programming is fun!

**According to society

The Computer Geek**

TRIVIA!Yes, there will be prizes.

Q: Who invented the first compiler?

1. Margaret Hamilton

2. Ada Lovelace

3. Grace Hopper

4. Evelyn Granville

A: USN Admiral Grace Hopper

Q: Which of the six ENIAC programmers helped develop standards for COBOL?

1. Frances Spence

2. Betty Holberton

3. Marlyn Wescoff

4. Kay McNulty

A: Betty Holberton

Q: Who pioneered the Apollo on-board guidance software required to navigate and land on the Moon?

1. Evelyn Granville 2. Dana Ulery 3. Ida Rhodes 4. Margaret Hamilton

A: Margaret Hamilton

Q: Who helped develop the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth in 1958?

1. Mary Keller 2. Jean Sammet 3. Frances Allen 4. Erna Hoover

A: Sister Mary Keller

Q: Who helped pioneer many OOP design pattern concepts during the development of the Smalltalk language?

1. Elizabeth Feinler 2. Adele Goldberg 3. Barbary Liskov 4. Kathleen Booth

A: Adele Goldberg

Q: Who became interested in science while listening to conversations about the technical aspects of weapon design at her husband’s lavish dinners with important German military figures prior to World War II?

1. Marlene Dietrich 2. Liesl Karlstadt 3. Hedy Lamarr 4. Hanna Schygulla

A: Hedy Lamarr

Q: Who was the first woman to win the Turing award?

1. Frances Allen 2. Evelyn Granville 3. Erna Hoover 4. Kathleen Booth

A: Frances Allen

Q: Who has a SOLID programming principle named after them?

1. Adele Goldberg 2. Ida Rhodes 3. Barbara Liskov 4. Grace Hopper

A: Barbara Liskov

The Present

The Future

"When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the supreme court]? And I say ‘When there are nine.’ People are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that."

My Vision for Women in Tech

What about you?

Questions• What are some of the ideas you have for increasing the

number of women in tech? • How can we make computer science more accessible? • What is your vision, and what can we do to make it a reality?

Questions?

Thank you!

morgan senkal @morganpdx