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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Grace Hopper dies.
Sorry to Bug You
Lynn Conway born
Revolutionising Chip Design
Louis Braille born
Letters from the Victorian Smog
Daphne Oram died
The dawn of music humans can’t play
Film Hidden Figures released
NASA’s brilliant calculators
Nikola Tesla died
Prolific inventor who won the AC/DC battle
Herman Hollerith awarded patent for Electric Tabulating System
STORY TO COME
Gary Starkweather born
inventor of the laser printer.
Anita Borg born
Supported women in computer science
STORY TO COME
Hedy Lamarr died
Actress and inventor
The movie star, the piano player and the torpedo
Tanya Beri wins a UKRI Young Innovators Award
For an app that route-finds least polluted routes STORY TO COME
Freddie Figgers sells rights to GPS shoe
the abandoned baby who became a runaway tech star
Coming soon(ish) … (within the year at least)
This page was funded by UKRI, through grant EP/W033615/1.
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