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WHY CONSIDER
SOFTWARE AS A CAREER?
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Bernadette Hyland, CEO & tech startup founder
~ St Peters Lutheran College ~
9 November 2017
At its core, software engineering is concerned with designing, writing, testing, implementing and maintaining software …
Software is in everything we touch … our TVs, music, mobile devices, to services that impact us … healthcare, banks, transportation, home & school
From the moment we wake up, until we sleep, we are using software in our daily lives.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPACT
COLLABORATION & TEAMS
CREATIVITY & PERSONAL GROWTH
DEMAND FOR SKILLED SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
LOTS OF GROWTH IN BRISBANE & BEYOND!
CONTRIBUTE TO REAL WORLD ISSUES …
Benefits of a career in software … working with other bright, creative people. Opportunities worldwide. Great pay & benefits.
STATS ON WOMEN IN SOFTWARE
➤ 1985 - about 37% of U.S. computer science degrees (BS, BA) conferred to women
➤ By mid-1990’s, U.S. women studying computer science fell below 30%
➤ By 2010, women made up only 17% of CS undergraduates, though women represent 47% of the workforce as compared to 38% in the 1970s.
The Current State of Women in Computer Science, U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics
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“Computer guys” marketed PCs to guys just like them…
SO WHAT HAPPENED?!!
Occasionally the marketing department branched out…
Creating even more alienating marketing campaigns…
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slide credit: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/girlgeekdinner12-141216210832-conversion-gate01/95/a-brief-history-of-programming-18-638.jpg
Dr. Euphemia Lofton Haynes, mathematician & activist for desegregation
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, U.S. Navy
ENIAC computer programmer, created a language compiler, Mark I programmer
Katherine Johnson, NASA
calculated trajectory for the first American in space to inaugural Space Shuttle flight. The movie Hidden Figures featured her.
Annie Easley, NASA, worked on technologies that led to hybrid vehicles & software for spaceflight exploration. Margaret Hamilton, NASA lead software engineer,
MIT professor who later coined the term “software engineering”
In software engineering, we do a lot of “firsts”
First African American woman to earn her PhD at MIT (2001)
Professor Latanya Arvette Sweeney, Harvard, privacy technology expert
Meg Smith, U.S. Federal CTO
“Many young women & men today are unaware of the variety of jobs that use software engineering and IT expertise — including UI/UX design, requirements analysis, product management, space exploration, systems engineering, AI & robotics. My goal is to change that.
-Bernadette Hyland
CREDITSCSIRAC, the first computer in Australia (1949-1964), https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/1337
Define diversity in the workplace, smallbusiness.chron.com/define-diversity-workplace-4926.html
Female Math Pioneers who changed our world, http://www.dreambox.com/blog/female-math-pioneers-infographic
Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland, see https://www.adcq.qld.gov.au/resources
Rocket Women - NASA’s Female Pioneers, see http://rocket-women.com/2016/03/nasas-female-pioneers-women-from-history-you-should-know/
She Can Code blog “How Diversity Made My Team More Successful, see https://shecancode.io/blog/whydiversityimprovesteamwork
The Current State of Women in Computer Science, see http://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-science/