Diversity Day by Day: May

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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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May 1 1924
Evelyn Boyd Granville born 
At IBM, developed programs calculating orbits for Vanguard, Mercury and Apollo space missions
May 2
May 3
virtual guide dog - dog silhouette covered in 1s and 0s
May 4 1965
T.V. Raman born
Accessibility Research
Virtual Guide Dogs
May 5 1937
Delia Derbyshire born 
Electronic music pioneer
Exploding star
May 6 1949
EDSAC released
Joyce Wheeler one of the first
to use it for science
May: Deaf awareness week
Johana Lucht: deaf NASA engineer
May 8 1945
VE Day
World War II finally ended
aided by a Bombe designed by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman
May 9
May 10
Small photo of Clarence 'Skip' Ellis
May 11 1943
Clarence “Skip” Ellis born 
GUI and collaborative writing
May 12 1820
Florence Nightingale born
Victorian Big Data and data visualisation
May 13
May 14
May 15
International Day of Light
Polina Bayvel pioneer of Optical networks: the optical pony express
Small photo of Clarence 'Skip' Ellis
May 17 2014
Clarence “Skip” Ellis died
GUI and collaborative writing
May 18 1975
Christopher Strachey died
Wizard programmer, semantics, 
creative computing
May 19 1983
Robert Haig Weitbrecht died
Inventions led to 1st teletypewriter phone call between deaf people
May 20
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May 24 1974
David Bowie releases Diamond Dogs. He uses algorithmic cut up technique to write and later 
develops program to do it
May 25
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May 28 1933
Ruzena Bajcsy born
Improved robots perception
May 29
Closeup of a slice of lemon in negative filter textured background

May 30 1975
Marissa Mayer born
Lemons linking 41 shades of blue
A/ B testing

May 31 QMUL interaction design projects are normally completed in May Designing for autistic people

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