Diversity Day by Day: April

A work in progress

The history of computer science is often presented as almost completely white and male. Here is a more diverse day by day version, It may start sparse but we will fill it in with links to cs4fn articles as we come across diverse events. We will celebrate the contributions of computer scientists whether men, women, LGBTQ+, disabled or not, and of whatever ethnicity, religion or country of birth.

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Cartoon showing a crash test dummy in a sitting position.
April 1 2008
Annie Lu Luo PhD confirmed: Designing Energy and User Efficient Interactions with Mobile Systems
April is World Autism Acceptance Month: Neurodiversity and computer science
April 3
April 4 2017
Johana Lucht becomes
first deaf engineer 
to work in mission control on an active crewed mission.
April 5 1924
James Marsters born
Helped invent a telecoms device allowing deaf people to communicate by phone
April 6 2003
Anita Borg died 
April 7 2020
Adrian Stokes died
One of founders of Internet
Born with spina bifida

April 8
April 9 1921
Mary Jackson born
NASA Hidden Figure
April 10
April 11 1920
Robert Haig Weitbrecht born deaf
Inventions led to 1st teletypewriter phone call between deaf people.
April 12
April 13
April 14 1966
Polina Bayvel born 
Optical networks
optical pony express
April 15
April 16  2019 
MacroMind founded
Lisa Gelobter led Shockwave team
that enabled the multimedia web with animation
April 17
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April 21
April 22 1972 
Jasmin Fisher born
algorithmic methods in biology
April 23, 1933
Annie Easley born
NASA human computer and programmer

April 24
April 25 2019
 Dr. Mark Dean Day
IBM personal computer pioneer
26 April 1985
The Arm architecture was born.
Designed by Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber
A jar of paintbrushes with lights behind
April 27 2016
Harold Cohen died
Aaron and the art of art
April 28
April 29 1951
Ludwig Wittgenstein died
Austrian philosopher, invented tautology, popularised truth tables
April 30, 1916
Claude Shannon born
Information Theory

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