OpenGeoHub welcomes 2 new staff to our team: Nkem Nora Ehujuo and Tianyu Yang. We are proud to be running a #DeepTech organization on Laddies ingenuity #Womenintech embracing #ethnodiversity and #neurodiversity. Because solutions to solving the climate crisis and loss of biodiversity is in our own diversity. We are now speaking 15 languages!
Missing on the picture: Robert Minarik and Leandro Parente.
Meet the Ladies of Swift Leeds 💃❤️ Four badass speakers, and enough ladies to fill the stage! Can't wait to see the numbers grow even more in 2024 🤩 #WomenInTech#LadiesOfSwiftLeeds#SwiftLeeds
"Women were disproportionately affected by those cuts, making up 69.2% of all tech layoffs, according to The Women Tech Network. And that's on top of the industry's ongoing gender imbalance. Women hold just 26% of jobs across all STEM occupations and even less — 24% — in computer fields, according to the latest available data from the U.S. Department of Labor."
The decisive influence of women on the development of #LispMachine processors and #Scheme in general is criminally under-discussed:
"We had heard that Lynn Conway from Xerox and Carver Mead from Caltech were making real progress on making it possible for people who were not at a chip-fab facility to specify chips for experimental designs. In the Spring of '78 we invited Lynn Conway to teach the class on #VLSI design that she was working on with Carver Mead. Just a few years earlier Guy L. Steele Jr., (then my graduate student) and I invented a simplified but elegant version of the #LISP family of languages that we called Scheme. Guy and I wrote a number of internal memos (Lambda the Ultimate...) that later became famous. Guy enrolled in Lynn's class. For his term project he designed and fabricated a direct interpreter for Scheme, called Scheme-78. It didn't quite work (because of three missing wires); it didn't have a garbage collector; and it was too small to do anything impressive; but it encouraged us to try again. Over the next few months Guy Steele, Jack Holloway, and I designed a new interpreter that we thought could actually be run on a real memory and tested with real programs. I designed the register array, Guy and I developed the microcode. Jack made a PLA generator that could hold the microcode, and we roped Alan Bell of #XeroxPARC into assembling the Scheme-79 Chip. We pulled this off in a few man-months of time and it worked! Scheme-79 had a mark-sweep #GarbageCollector with a Deutsch-Schorr-Waite mark algorithm and a two-finger compacting sweep. It also had a two-level microcode: The main PLA contained rather high-level microcode instructions that were further elaborated by a nanocode PLA that operated the register array.
Further encouraged, I started a new project to make a chip that was actually big enough and fast enough to be useful to run real research programs. This was the Scheme-81 chip. It was a 32-bit machine, with 6 bits of type code and 26 bits of address. It had microcode support for everything required to make a Scheme computer operating system, including a stop-and-copy garbage collector, a coprocessor bus, and an interrupt system. For Scheme-81 the microcode was written by Richard Stallman, Chris Hanson, and me. (Steele had graduated and moved on to CMU as faculty.)"
Our third announced keynoter is: Kaylea Champion @kaylea, Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching many things related to free/libre/open source. She is an advocate for women in technology and past SeaGL presenter.
My name's Megan, originally from Minnesota but living in the UK which is now home. Always something in my mind and will post about it here. Hope you have a wonderful day!
July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band "Les Horribles Cernettes" ("The Horrible CERN Girls" in English)
The group sang love songs about colliders, quarks, liquid nitrogen, microwaves, and antimatter in ’60s-inspired outfits.
(the article contains the songs and funny lyrics, it's not that bad! 😀 )
Joint event by R-Ladies Cologne (@cosima_meyer and
Gabe Winter) and R-Ladies Bergen (Jonelle and me): we're thrilled to be hosting Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel who will teach us about Quarto 🥳 👩💻
This is a kick-off event for a brand-new book club, where we'll be going through the book "Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R". Come, join us!
I'm Lily, a proud trans lesbian from Denver, a mom of a 12 year old, and am engayged to the love of my life!
I'm a neurodivergent woman in tech working as a Senior SRE at Writer and was previously the admin of outdoors.lgbt and firefish.lgbt
For fun I like to hang out with my kiddo, play guitar, snowboard, go camping, play videogames, hang out at the local lesbian bar, and see whatever kind of trouble my partner @deb and I can get into on the weekends.
Packing my bags and I’m so excited! 🤩Next week I’m attending #SwiftIsland as a mentor. I’m hosting a WatchOS 10 design workshop, so make sure to bring your creativity and have your devices fully charged! - @fosiaDesign
In the home stretch, now. I have almost all the new teachers set up, two more carts of chromebooks to clean, and dog knows how many more problems after the other teachers get back.
Pro tip: be careful using the lower case "L" in passwords. Too many have been mistaking them for the number 1 or the letter I (eye)
Once again we redesigned Ambre for the watch! Of course the instructions should utilize the new Tab View that will be available with #watchOS10 later this fall 🙌
I have a lot of random thoughts, and will likely post them here.
Last year I took the leap into AppSec from a more general Infosec background. This year, I'm looking at security engineering and programming more generally.
CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.
At Cyber later this year I'm doing a revamped versy of my satirical ComfyCon talk about keeping marginalised genders out of cyber.
If you are trans, enby, intersex and/or a woman and have a cyber/tech horror story, and are willing to have it get into my talk (anonymously), get in touch!
CBI Image of the Day (from the vast CBI Historical Archives). Jean Hall and ADVIDAC
CBI Image of the day: Jean Hall at the Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer (AVIDAC) console, showing the Ferranti photoelectric paper tape reader and the punch output bin, ca mid 1950s.
The scholarship is intended for early-career researchers who have historically been underrepresented, for instance in terms of geographical region, cultural background, gender identity, and disability.
In the organization’s annual survey of its users conducted in 2022, 92 percent of respondents identified as male, and three-quarters as white or European. The platform acknowledged then that it has “considerable work to do.”
But in 2023, Stack Overflow’s survey, published on June 13, stripped out questions about gender and race.