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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.
Future Friendly
Kerstin Dautenhahn and social robotics
The Woman of the Future?!?
Were women really "epochs behind man"?
Sorry to bug you
Grace Hopper catches the bug
A gendered timeline of technology
Women have contributed more than you think
The real pros
What do real professional women think?
Killer robot? Evil scientist?! Helpless woman?!?
Women (and robots) in films
Engaging and Exciting Computing
Interview with Yvonne Rogers
If you go down to the woods...
Yvonne Rogers and excitement in the Ambiant wood
The Multi-Million Pound Greeting
Starting a business at 62
My First Signs
Helping people learn sign language
Designing an innovative radio
An interview with an all-female student team
Smart Translation
Fran Allen: pioneering work on optimizing compilers
Predicting Cancer Cures
Muffy Calder modelling biochemical pathways
Proof without words
Mateja Jamnik making computers understand diagrammatic proofs
Under Pressure
Jellyfish, knee injuries and the work of Bushra Akhtar
How programmed art won school student Raghd Rostom a prize
Rebel with a cause
Florence Nightingale: computer scientist?
How are Nina Fefferman's team dealing with pandemics?
Learning to talk in nature's language
Understanding life in the Antarctic
Cognitive crash dummies
Bonnie John figuring out how easy gadgets are to use
Constraint Programming
How a computer scientist organised her wedding
Using the Dark Side
Vision researcher Hannah Dee comes out of the shadows
Making sense of squishiness
Computer vision in a squishy, deformable world
Knitters and coders
Finding computation in woolly jumpers
The devil is in the detail
Lessons from animal welfare
Don't press that button
Preventing medical errors with interaction design
Inspiring Wendy Hall
The great web that is yet to come
Getting power to an island located in perilous waters
Synthetic Speech
Maria Klara helping us understand synthetic voices
The optical pony express
Polina Bayvel exploring the limits of sending messages quickly
Samia Faruq helping biologists understand bees
Erna Schneider Hoover keeping the telephone lines open
Li Zhang and wireless networks
How Karen Spärk-Jones' research triggered the Google-age
Barbara Liskov preventing computers squabbling
Evelyn Boyd Granville and the space programme
Mary Shelley and artificial life
Ada Lovelace: the first programmer
Fiona Polack becoming a software engineer
Sue Black helping save the history of computing at war
Students at CMU look after each other
Clare Hudson and In4merz
