October 8, 2014 · 5:10 pm

“Notable Women in Computing” Kickstarter – Coming Soon!

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Today, we submitted the “Notable Women in Computing Card Deck” to Kickstarter for review.  Professor Susan Rodger, my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I hope that we get a quick Kickstarter approval and can announce the campaign for the second “Notable Women in Computing” card edition at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) this week.  Here is a video of my charming daughter telling all about the crowd sourcing project: Notable Women in Computing Card Deck – Kickstarter.  The image above is how the hard-working Jessica re-formatted the GHC14 poster for more-general Kickstarter distribution.

This project and card set is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing” project.  We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none! The detailed card listing is in my 1 October 2014 blog entry.  Duke University and Everwise are sponsors.

Copyright 2014 by Katy Dickinson

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October 8, 2014 · 11:15 am

Two TechWomen at Everwise!

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Today Everwise is pleased and honored to host an additional TechWomen Emerging Leader! Mai Temraz (of Palestine) has joined Seham Jaafreh (of Jordan) working at Everwise in San Francisco this month. CEO and Founder Mike Bergelson heard about Mai’s original mentor becoming very ill and immediately offered to host a second TechWomen mentoring program participant.  The women of Everwise have welcomed our two new ladies. Everwise is a small company with a big heart! Seham and Mai are getting settled and starting on their professional projects today.

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October 7, 2014 · 7:45 am

TechWomen Opening Day 2014!

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Yesterday was the TechWomen 2014 opening event for participants from 16 countries in Africa and the Middle East (plus the USA!) – generously hosted by Juniper Networks again in Sunnyvale, California. During the next five weeks, I will be the Professional Mentor for Seham Jaafreh from Jordan – working together at Everwise In San Francisco. Lucy Keoni will also be working with Seham as her Cultural Mentor.

Assistant US Secretary of State Evan Ryan made the welcome announcement that the countries included in TechWomen 2015 will be extended to South Central Asia!

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October 5, 2014 · 8:11 pm

TechWomen Potluck

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This afternoon, long-time TechWomen mentor and supporter Shannon McElyea generously hosted a potluck garden party for mentors and STEM Emerging Leaders from the Middle East and Africa. The TechWomen ELs have been in America just a few days – going on tours and discussing their plans in workshops. This was one of their first purely social events – and for many, their first-ever potluck. The American custom of building a meal around whatever food each person wants to contribute took some explaining but we all had a good time.

During this next month, I will be the Professional Mentor for Seham Jaafreh from Jordan – working together at Everwise. Everwise has already posted a blog post welcoming the TechWomen – as has the US State Department. Lucy Keoni will be working with Seham and me as Seham’s Cultural Mentor. The three of us were delighted to meet today and are enjoying planning many activities and visits in the San Francisco Bay Area.

John and I drove four lovely and lively Emerging Leaders from Zimbabwe back to their hotel after the party.

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October 3, 2014 · 11:01 pm

Poster Done: “Notable Women in Computing”

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Professor Susan Rodger, my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I created the “Notable Women in Computing” Poster and Playing Cards for delivery at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) next week. Jessica just finished designing the poster above – showing all 54 of the playing cards.

The poster text says:

Keep our history: Women have been leaders in computing from the start but not enough of our contributions are remembered. Keep our history by writing a Wikipedia page for a notable woman in computing (draw from our list of 300+). Get tips on writing a great page, get a copy of this deck, and learn more about this project at Bit.ly/NotableW.

This project and card set is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing”project.  We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none! The detailed card listing is in my 1 October 2014 blog entry.

Duke University and Everwise are sponsors. Playing Cards will be for sale $6/deck (our cost) at the GHC14 Duke University table – one deck per person!

The Notable Women in Computer Science project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing the card deck under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We have done a number of things to ensure this deck only helps, and does not hurt, women in computing. Our efforts included: using public domain images, seeking individual permission for images, seeking to represent the reality of diversity of women in computing, and seeking input on the project from women leaders in technology.

If you have a concern (don’t like the public domain photo we found of you, don’t think the photo you took can be licensed in the way we did, decided you did not want to be included, want to provide a better photo or more correct text) we want to know and we will do our best to help you. Please contact Katy Dickinson (katy dot dickinson at gmail dot com) with questions.

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October 3, 2014 · 10:38 pm

Cards Done! “Notable Women in Computing”

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The initial printing of the “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards is done! You can share in the exciting first view by Professor Susan Rodger at Duke University by scrolling through the photos below.  The cards look great!

Professor Susan Rodger, my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I created the “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards for delivery at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) next week. This work is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing” project.  We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none! The detailed card listing is in my 1 October 2014 blog entry.

Duke University and Everwise are sponsors. Cards will be for sale $6/deck (our cost) at the GHC14 Duke University table – one deck per person!

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The Notable Women in Computer Science project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing the card deck under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We have done a number of things to ensure this deck only helps, and does not hurt, women in computing. Our efforts included: using public domain images, seeking individual permission for images, seeking to represent the reality of diversity of women in computing, and seeking input on the project from women leaders in technology.

If you have a concern (don’t like the public domain photo we found of you, don’t think the photo you took can be licensed in the way we did, decided you did not want to be included, want to provide a better photo or more correct text) we want to know and we will do our best to help you. Please contact Katy Dickinson (katy dot dickinson at gmail dot com) with questions.

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October 1, 2014 · 11:15 pm

Listing: “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards – GHC14

As of January 2015, these cards are available for sale on Notable Technical Women. See the 3 January 2019 listing for the updated 4th edition.

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This is my second blog post featuring cards from the “Notable Women in Computing” Playing Cards set. Professor Susan Rodger (Duke University), my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I sent them off to be manufactured for delivery at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (aka GHC14) next week. This work is associated with the long-term “CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing” project.  We encourage you to use this information to write or improve Wikipedia pages – especially creating new pages about remarkable women who have none!

Duke University and Everwise are sponsors. The full card listing follows. Cards will be for sale $6/deck (our cost) at the GHC14 Duke University table (8 October to 10 October 2014) – one deck per person!

23 October 2014 note: Please watch the Kickstarter video about why we picked these 54 women from among all of the remarkable technical women.

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The Notable Women in Computer Science project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing the card deck under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We have done a number of things to ensure this deck only helps, and does not hurt, women in computing. Our efforts included: using public domain images, seeking individual permission for images, seeking to represent the reality of diversity of women in computing, and seeking input on the project from women leaders in technology.

If you have a concern (don’t like the public domain photo we found of you, don’t think the photo you took can be licensed in the way we did, decided you did not want to be included, want to provide a better photo or more correct text) we want to know and we will do our best to help you. Please contact Katy Dickinson (katy dot dickinson at gmail dot com) with questions.

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All 54 cards:

Suit Honoree Name Position, Honors, Awards Wikipedia Link (if any)
Joker Maria Klawe Harvey Mudd College President, ACM Fellow, Canadian Information Processing Society founding Fellow Linked Here
Joker Mitchell Baker Exec. Chair Mozilla, ABI Women of Vision, Internet Hall of Fame Linked Here
Hearts Queen– Frances Allen IBM Fellow Emerita, Turing Award, Computer History Museum Fellow, IEEE Fellow Linked Here
❤ King– Barbara Liskov MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM Fellow, SWE Achievement Award Linked Here
❤ Jack– Shafrira Goldwasser MIT Professor, Turing Award, ACM-W Athena Lecturer Linked Here
❤ Ace– Hessa Sultan Al Jaber Qatar ICT Minister, Chair CS Department – Qatar Univ. Linked Here
❤ 10- Mary Jane Irwin Pennsylvania State Univ. Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, NAE Member, ACM-W Athena Lecturer Linked Here
❤ 9- Irene Greif IBM User Experience Group, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Formed Lotus Research 1992 Linked Here
❤ 8- Duy-Loan Le Senior Fellow-Texas Instruments, WITI Hall of Fame, ABI Women of Vision Linked Here
❤ 7- Grete Hermann Univ. of Göttingen mathematician, 1926 foundational paper for computerized algebra Linked Here
❤ 6- Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon Univ. Professor, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow Linked Here
❤ 5- Lila Ibrahim Chief Business Officer Coursera, ABI Women of Vision, Purdue University-Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer none yet
❤ 4- Padmasree Warrior Cisco CTO, WITI Hall of Fame, Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi Linked Here
❤ 3- Genevieve Bell Intel Director of Interaction and Experience Research, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
❤ 2- Marilyn Wescoff ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
Diamonds Queen– Anita Borg Founder Anita Borg Institute, WITI Hall of Fame, Fellow ACM, EFF Pioneer Linked Here
♦ King– Deborah Estrin Professor Cornell NYC Tech, ACM, AAAS and IEEE Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, ACM-W Athena Lecturer Linked Here
♦ Jack– Yuqing Gao IBM Senior Manager, ABI Women of Vision, IEEE Fellow none yet
♦ Ace– Susan Graham Univ. California Berkeley Distinguished Professor, ACM Fellow, NAE Member, AAAS Fellow none yet
♦ 10- Cristina Amon Univ. of Toronto Dean-Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, IEEE Fellow, SWE Achievement Award, Canadian Academy of Eng., Spanish Royal Academy, Royal Society of Canada, US NAE Linked Here
♦ 9- Betsy Ancker-Johnson 1st observation of microwave emission without the presence of an external field (1967), Fellow Am Physical Society, Fellow AAAS, IEEE Fellow, Member NAE Linked Here
♦ 8- Arati Prabhakar US DARPA Director, IEEE Fellow, Head National Institute of Standards and Technology (US NIST) Linked Here
♦ 7- Sophie Vandebroek CTO Xerox, IEEE Fellow, WITI Hall of Fame, Royal Flemish Academy for Arts & Sciences Member none yet
♦ 6- Ruzena Bajcsy Univ. California Berkeley Professor, NAE Member, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAI member, AAAS member Linked Here
♦ 5- Laurie Hendren Professor McGill Univ., ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada none yet
♦ 4- Lixia Zhang Univ. California, Los Angeles Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow none yet
♦ 3- Betty Snyder ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
♦ 2- Kay McNulty ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
Spades Queen– Grace Hopper US Navy Admiral, 1st compiler for a programming language 1952, Computer History Museum Fellow, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow AAAS Linked Here
♠ King– Chieko Asakawa IBM Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, Japan Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon none yet
♠ Jack– Denice Denton Univ. California Santa Cruz Chancellor, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow Linked Here
♠ Ace– Radia Perlman Intel Fellow, IEEE Fellow, 1st ABI Women of Vision award winner Linked Here
♠ 10- Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza Professor PUC Rio de Janeiro, CHI Academy none yet
♠ 9- Linda Petzold Univ. California Santa Barbara Professor, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, NAE Member none yet
♠ 8- Jennifer Widom Professor Stanford Univ., ACM Fellow, AAAS Member, NAE Member Linked Here
♠ 7- Jean Sammet IBM Researcher, 1st woman ACM President, ACM Fellow, Computer History Museum Fellow Linked Here
♠ 6- Helen Greiner CEO of CyPhy Works, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
♠ 5- Anuradha Annaswamy MIT Senior Research Scientist, IEEE Fellow, Hay Medal – Indian Institute of Science none yet
♠ 4- Qiheng Hu Founder, China Internet Network Information Center, Internet Hall of Fame, Research Professor – Chinese Academy of Sciences none yet
♠ 3- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
♠ 2- Fran Bilas ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
Clubs Queen– Katherine Johnson NASA Mathematician, calculated the trajectory of early space launches 1959 Linked Here
♣ King– Augusta Ada Lovelace King Mathematician, 1st computer programmer 1843 Linked Here
♣ Jack– Jennifer Chayes Microsoft Research Distinguished Scientist, ACM Fellow, ABI Women of Vision Linked Here
♣ Ace– Vicki Hanson Professor Univ. of Dundee, ACM Fellow, SIGCHI Social Impact Award, ABI Women of Vision, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh none yet
♣ 10- Ellen Ochoa NASA Astronaut and Johnson Space Center Director, 1st Hispanic woman in space, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Harvard Foundation Science Award, San Diego State Univ. Alumna of the Year Linked Here
♣ 9- Tova Milo Professor Tel Aviv Univ., ACM Fellow Linked Here
♣ 8- Valerie Taylor Professor Univ. Texas A&M, IEEE Fellow none yet
♣ 7- Kathleen McKeown Professor Columbia Univ., ACM and AAAI Fellow, Founding Fellow Association for Computational Linguistics, ABI Women of Vision none yet
♣ 6- Susan Landau Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ABI Women of Vision Linked Here
♣ 5- Mary Lou Jepsen Google X Head of the Display Division, ABI Women of Vision, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here
♣ 4- Kristina Johnson Undersecretary US Dept. of Energy, IEEE Fellow, ABI Women of Vision, SWE Achievement Award Linked Here
♣ 3- Sophie Wilson Broadcom Director IC Design, Designer Acorn Microcomputer, Computer History Museum Fellow, Fellow Royal Society-London Linked Here
♣ 2- Jean Bartik ENIAC computer programmer team 1946, WITI Hall of Fame Linked Here

A project by: Susan Rodger (Duke University Computer Science Professor of the Practice), Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and Katy Dickinson (Everwise Vice President – Mentoring)

Updated 4 January 2019.

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