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The Women are here!
Too important to be left to men
Women have been at the forefront of computer science and electronic engineering from the outset. Does that surprise you? It shouldn't but if it does it's probably due in great part to the power of stereotypes. At the moment too many girls have been believing the stereotypes, which just leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fortunately many ignore them and are continuing to be as successful as the women of history.
Here we celebrate some of the great women of the past, highlight the work of current top researchers and also profile some students who are set to continue the trend. Women may not always shout about their achievements, but boy do they do it well!
After all as leading computer scientist Karen Spärk-Jones said: "Computing's too important to be left to men".
Read lots of articles here or download the pdf of our annual on women in computing. Download the issue on Ada Lovelace. Download a women in computing poster
The Women are here
Magazine Issue 23
What being a professional is really like
Ada Lovelace
GPS and Black History
Films and Haptic Feedback
Forgetfulness
Electronic Circuitry
Zoology and Art
The movie star, the player piano and the torpedo
Architecture
Cryptography and Zero Knowledge Proofs
Computing / Architecture
Computer Vision
Women in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Women in Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction
Human-Human Interaction
social robotics
The Woman of the Future?!?
Sorry to bug you
A gendered timeline of technology
The Fittest Slogans Survive
Storms in Ballet
Killer robot? Evil scientist?! Helpless woman?!?
Female Computing Experts in Films
Return of the killer robot? Evil scientist?! Helpless woman?!?
Engaging and Exciting Computing
If you go down to the woods...
The Multi-Million Pound Greeting
My First Signs
Designing an innovative radio
Smart Translation
Predicting Cancer Cures
Proof without words
Mateja Jamnik making computers understand diagrammatic proofs
Under Pressure
Rebel with a cause
Learning to talk in nature's language
Cognitive crash dummies
Constraint Programming
Using the Dark Side
Making sense of squishiness
Knitters and coders
The devil is in the detail
Don't press that button
Inspiring Wendy Hall
Synthetic Speech
The optical pony express
Polina Bayvel exploring the limits of sending messages quickly
As easy as a bee sees
Juggling Priorities
Setting the bits free
Playing the weighting game
Byzantine birthdays
Out of this world
Frankenstein's monster
The pen, the paper and the poet's daughter
Lucky History
Saving Bletchley Park
Women are doin' it for themselves
Letting the music world know
Microphones
Health
Animation
Threads and Yarns
Video: Girls in a tech world
Women their jobs, their inspirations and why they love what they do