cs4fn Annual+: Issue 2

ISSN 1756-1868 (Print)

ISSN 1756-1876 (Online)

The second issue of the cs4fn annual focusses on female computer scientists and electronic engineers: those that shaped the subject, current leaders of the field and students. It combines some of the best of the first five years of the magazine with the best of the web as well as some all new articles. Every article is about the work of women. A pdf version is available for download.

Too important to be left to men

• Computing! Why should women care?

The woman of the future

• Were women really "epochs behind man"?

A gendered timeline of technology

• Women have contributed more than you think

Using the Dark Side

• Vision researcher Hannah Dee comes out of the shadows

How to win love by not playing it cool

• Vanessa Carpenter has found that maybe what we need is more potential embarrassment, not less.

Predicting Cancer Cures

• Muffy Calder modelling biochemical pathways

The pen, the paper and the poet's daughter

• Ada Lovelace: the first programmer

Frankenstein's monster

• Mary Shelley predicting artificial life

Cognitive crash dummies

• Bonnie John figuring out how easy gadgets are to use

Sorry to bug you

• Grace Hopper catches the bug

The Multi-Million Pound Greeting

• Jacquie Lawson: Starting a business at 62

Future Friendly

• Kerstin Dautenhahn and social robotics

Power Play

• The Nerd Girls get power to a tiny island located in perilous waters

As easy as a bee sees

• Samia Faruq helping biologists understand bees

Plague!

• How are Nina Fefferman's team dealing with pandemics?

The optical pony express

• Polina Bayvel exploring the limits of sending messages quickly

Setting the bits free

• Li Zhang and wireless networks

Synthetic Speech

• How is Maria Klara helping us understand synthetic voices?

Saving Bletchley Park

• Sue Black helping save the history of computing at war

My First Signs

• Lila Harrar helping people learn sign language

Juggling Priorities

• Erna Schneider Hoover keeping the telephone lines open

Killer robot? Evil scientist?! Helpless woman?!?

• Women (and robots) in films

The real pros

• What do real professional women think?

Knitters and coders

• Finding computation in woolly jumpers

Smart Translation

• Fran Allen: pioneering work on optimizing compilers

Rebel with a cause

• Florence Nightingale: computer scientist?

Die another day

• How Madonna crashed the Internet

If you go down to the woods...

• Yvonne Rogers and excitement in the Ambiant wood

Engaging and Exciting Computing

• Interview with Yvonne Rogers

Byzantine birthdays

• Barbara Liskov and a thought experiment to stop the computers squabbling

Lucky History

• Fiona Polack becoming a software engineer

Cold Hard Complexity: Learning to talk in nature's language

• Anje-Margriet Neutel: Understanding life in the Antarctic

Under Pressure

• Jellyfish, knee injuries and the work of Bushra Akhtar

Making sense of squishiness

• Computer vision in a squishy, deformable world

Arabesque art

• How programmed art won school student Raghd Rostom a prize

Playing the weighting game

• How Karen Spärk-Jones' research triggered the Google-age

Inspiring Wendy Hall

• The great web that is yet to come

Sisters are doin' it for themselves

• Students at CMU look after each other

Saving the Iberian Lynx

• Alison MacPherson winning animation prizes

Don't press that button

• Preventing medical errors with interaction design

How a computer scientist organised her wedding

• How Karen Petrie used constraint programming to seat her guests

Proof without words

• Mateja Jamnik making computers understand diagrammatic proofs

Designing an innovative radio

• An interview with an all-female student team

Out of this world

• Evelyn Boyd Granville and the space programme