Tag: computing
Punch Cards, Pipeline Problems, and the Future of Women in Computing
Computer Punch Cards, Coding Pipeline Problems, and the Future of Women in AI Carla Brodley, founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, explains how to make computer science education more accessible to everyone By Katie Hafner, Laura Isensee & The Lost Women of Science Initiative In high school, Carla Brodley…
How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing
Emily Feng STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese computing — and central to ongoing questions about the politics of language. One man succeeded more than any other before him.…