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The Women are here!

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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

Eyeing an insect Kerstin Dautenhahn and social robotics

The Woman of the Future?!?

Woman with lightbulb Were women really "epochs behind man"?

Sorry to bug you

Red moth Grace Hopper catches the bug

A gendered timeline of technology

Blue clocks Women have contributed more than you think

The real pros

Woman working behind blinds What do real professional women think?

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

Digital Woman Women (and robots) in films

Engaging and Exciting Computing

Yvonne Rogers Interview with Yvonne Rogers

If you go down to the woods...

Spooky Woods Yvonne Rogers and excitement in the Ambiant wood

The Multi-Million Pound Greeting

www.jacquielawson.com Starting a business at 62

My First Signs

Lila Harrar Helping people learn sign language

Designing an innovative radio

Gulmina, Jayashree and Lim An interview with an all-female student team

Smart Translation

Motorway Lights Fran Allen: pioneering work on optimizing compilers

Predicting Cancer Cures

A green lurgy in a digital world Muffy Calder modelling biochemical pathways

Proof without words

A proof about squares Mateja Jamnik making computers understand diagrammatic proofs

Under Pressure

A jelly fish Jellyfish, knee injuries and the work of Bushra Akhtar

Arabesque art

Raghd's design How programmed art won school student Raghd Rostom a prize

Rebel with a cause

A lamp Florence Nightingale: computer scientist?

Plague!

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

Learning to talk in nature's language

Iceberg Understanding life in the Antarctic

Cognitive crash dummies

Crash test dummy Bonnie John figuring out how easy gadgets are to use

Constraint Programming

Table Setting How a computer scientist organised her wedding

Using the Dark Side

Monster shadow threatening girl Vision researcher Hannah Dee comes out of the shadows

Making sense of squishiness

Kids under Duvet Computer vision in a squishy, deformable world

Knitters and coders

Boy in woolen hat Finding computation in woolly jumpers

The devil is in the detail

Upset cow Lessons from animal welfare

Don't press that button

Boy in woolen hat Preventing medical errors with interaction design

Inspiring Wendy Hall

A woman with a remote The great web that is yet to come

Power Play

A lighthouse light at night Getting power to an island located in perilous waters

Synthetic Speech

A glass face Maria Klara helping us understand synthetic voices

The optical pony express

Racing cowboy messenger Polina Bayvel exploring the limits of sending messages quickly

As easy as a bee sees

A bee on a flower Samia Faruq helping biologists understand bees

Juggling Priorities

Juggling Balls reflected Erna Schneider Hoover keeping the telephone lines open

Setting the bits free

Bits flying free from a cable Li Zhang and wireless networks

Playing the weighting game

Arms raised at concert How Karen Spärk-Jones' research triggered the Google-age

Byzantine birthdays

Violins embracing Barbara Liskov preventing computers squabbling

Out of this world

The moon Evelyn Boyd Granville and the space programme

Frankenstein's monster

Cartoon of Frankenstein's Monster Mary Shelley and artificial life

The pen, the paper and the poet's daughter

A painting of Ada Ada Lovelace: the first programmer

Lucky History

Golden Leaves Fiona Polack becoming a software engineer

Saving Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park Sue Black helping save the history of computing at war

Women are doin' it for themselves

Women graduating Students at CMU look after each other

Letting the music world know

A girl group Clare Hudson and In4merz

Microphones

Musicians with microphones Combing for sound

Animation

Lynx still Saving the Iberian Lynx

Threads and Yarns

Threads and Yarns Textile Art, Healthy Tales and Electronics

Video: Girls in a tech world

Google Android Logo Women their jobs, their inspirations and why they love what they do