Women in CS

Ciarán Llachlan Leavitt

Imager Lab, Dept. of Computer Science

&

Vania Chan

CPSC 101 TA

Why Look at Women in CS?

Give a sense of range Provide role models Inspiration Balance

For any group to be excluded overtly or culturally from powerful

career positions, or to have their contributions erased from smacks

of sexism/racism.

Some Women to Watch For

Sherry Turkle

Meg Whitman Fran Allen Maria Klawe

Sherry Turkle

Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor

(of the Social Studies of Science and Technology)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focuses on the relationships between things

and thinking Identity, gender, and the Internet

Meg Whitman

CEO Ebay since 1998

Bachelor of Economics from Princeton University

MBA from Harvard Business School.

She is one of only five women on Earth to have

been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.

Board of Directors - DreamWorks Animation

Fran Allen

2007: 1st female recipient of A.M. Turing Award

Pioneer in compiler optimization.

Formed PTRAN to study issues in

parallel translation (computing)

1997: became the 1st female IBM Fellow

Maria Klawe

Past Dept. Head here.

Past Dean of Sch. App. Eng. Sci. at Princeton

Currently President Harvey Mudd College

Educated in Canada (U of A)

Gender, Lies, and Video Games: The Truth about Females and Computing