Γυναίκες και Τεχνολογία

Στην εργασία αυτή καταγράφεται, μέσω παραδειγμάτων, η πορεία των γυναικών μέσα στην τεχνολογία. Από την μία πλευρά, εξετάζεται με ποιόν τρόπο βοήθησε η ανάπτυξη και η εξέλιξη της τεχνολογίας στην καλυτέρευση της ζωής των γυναικών σε διάφορους τομείς(υγεία, ομορφιά, καθημερινότητα). Από την άλλη, γίνεται μία ιστορική ανάλυση του τρόπου με τον οποίο λειτούργησαν οι γυναίκες μέσα στα πρώτα εργοστάσια και πώς χειρίστηκαν τις μηχανές. Τι δουλειές αναλάμβαναν μέσα στο εργοστάσιο και ποιά ήταν η αντιμετώπιση και η αντίδραση των ανδρών συναδέλφων τους. Φυσικά, δεν θα μπορούσε να μην γίνει αναφορά στην περίπτωση του ENIAC του πρώτου ηλεκτρικού υπολογιστή, τον οποί ρύθμισαν και λειτούργησαν γυναίκες(γνωστές ως "κορίτσια του ENIAC") κατά την διάρκεια του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου.In this essay, the main subject is to explore the main subject is to explore the process of women into the technology under two circumstances. On one hand, is observed in which way the development and evolution of technology help the improvement of women lives in many ways(health, beauty and everyday life). On the other hand, how didi women worked into the factories and how the handled the technology machines. What kind of jobs acrually tok into the factories and what was the reaction of men to all of this. Of course, it wouldn't be propreate not to mention the case of ENIAC, the first electronic computer, which mas actually regulated and used by women(known as "The women of ENIAC") during World War II

Women in Computer Science

For this week’s unit, Gender at work, I chose to focus my investigation on gender in the computing industry. More specifically, the goal of my research was to uncover some of the reasons behind the lack of female representation in the computer science world. As a minority in computer science, this investigation has been very personal to me because it has allowed me to learn more about some of the institutional oppressors that have been adopted over time to further marginalize minority populations and allow a certain demographic to flourish. As you may have learned from our previous discussions and explorations in Sociology, that demographic is the average white, able-bodied, Christian male. I have reviewed a plethora of scholarly articles and have made note of some of the frequent themes that have led to the lack of female representation in computer science, and have compiled all these claims and conversations into this presentation. My findings have been astonishing, to say the least, and I am happy to share this information with you in the slides to come.https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/gender_studies/1064/thumbnail.jp

Guide to the Dr. L.S. Dederick Papers, 1908-1956, undated

Louis Serle (L.S.) Dederick was born in Chicago in 1883. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1909. From 1909 – 1917 he was a professor at Princeton University. From 1917 – 1924 he was professor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1926 Dederick began working for the U.S. Army, Ordnance. During his time there he was the Associate Director of the Ballistic Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland where he focused on ballistics research. While Dederick worked as a mathematician at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, he was involved with numerous projects. He worked in the fields of ballistics calculations, the development of computing methods for machines which included differential analyzers, the Bell Relay computer, oversaw the creation of the ENIAC computer (the world’s first digital computer), as well as its successors the EDVAC computer and the ORDVAC computer. These computers were designed with the goal of making ballistics calculations more quickly and efficiently. Some of his work on these projects included project management, administrative work, and search for personnel to add to project teams. His immediate supervisors while working at Aberdeen included Col. Leslie E. Simon and Col. Alden P. Taber. Dederick retired from this position in May 1953. After his retirement he was pulled into efforts of the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1954 to give statements on behalf of some of the workers he supervised who were being questioned about possible connections to communism. Dederick passed away in 1972. He is buried in Princeton Cemetery, located in Princeton, NJ. This Collection consists mostly of documents from L.S. Dederick’s time at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. This Includes his work with the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, better known as the ENIAC, the world’s first digital computer, as well as the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, known as the EDVAC. The ENIAC, completed in 1945, aided in allowing the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory to more easily perform ballistics calculations. It marks the beginning of the computer age

Computing the Role that Women Hold in the Technology and Computing Fields

This research was conducted as a thesis project to study what roles women have played in information technology over time, how those roles have changed over time, and what caused those roles to change. It was also to study how personal life experiences may have affected their roles and careers in the technology field. Influential women in IT of the past were studied and compared to determine any common factors between them

An Abridged History of the Computer as it Pertains to Diagnostic Medical Imaging

The personal computer has been integrated into the fabric of everyday life, medical imaging is no different. In this article the author introduces a brief historical study of the developments that have led to the modern computer. Emphasis is placed on the computer in medical imaging