Diversity Day by Day: June

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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June 1 2004
Yvonne Rogers et al publish paper on Ambient woods

June is Pride Month
LGBTQ+ Computer Science Greats
June 3 2009
Peter Landin died
LGBTQ+ campaigner. Contributed to programming and semantics via models in lambda calculus
June 4 2014
Chester Nez, last of original Navajo code talkers died

June 5 1930
Peter Landin borm
LGBTQ+ campaigner. Invented idea of syntactic sugar
June 6
June 7 1954
Alan Turing died
June 8 2019
Sophie Wilson honoured with a 
CBE for her services to computing
June 9 2016
Antonella Mazzoni’s paper on Mood Glove published
June 10
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June 15 1959
John “JT” Thompson born 
Responsible for Macromind-Lingo
June 16
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June 19 2018
Christine Farion thesis published
on Smart bags
June 20 1929
Edith Windsor born
senior systems engineer at IBM
Led case that made gay marriage legal in US
June 21
June 22
une 23 1912
Alan Turing born
June 24 2016
Daphne Oram’s composition Still Point first performed
June 25 1945
Adrian Stokes born
One of the founders of the Internet
Had spina bifida from birth
June 26 2013
decision on case that made gay marriage legal in US handed down
Satellite image of the Earth at night
June 27 1978
Seasat remote sensing satellite launched: Gladys West project manager
June 28
June 29
June 30/July 1 2007
Dina St Johnston died
Founds Vaughan Programming Services: UKs first independent software house

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