Podcast appearances and mentions of Ellen Ullman

If you've ever been in a conference talk or been chatting with somebody and they say, 'You really should read this book. Here's this thing that I learned from this book that really made a difference for me', we've been there too, and we're going to read some of these books for you. Our first book club book is Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents by Ellen Ullman. Mandi is joined by Tara King to chat about the book and their thoughts.

Host Jonathan Hughes has two conversations about unique paths when planning for college, Ellen Ullman and Gracie Rosenberg.

Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant and Claire Evans to discuss their new science fiction anthology, how it uses the genre to critically interrogate the technologies being rolled out around us, and how it pushes back on the desire of tech billionaires to use science fiction to get the public to buy into their corporate futures.Brian Merchant is a tech journalist and author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone. Claire L. Evans is the author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet and singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT. They are the cofounders of Terraform at VICE's Motherboard and the co-editors of Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn.  Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant and follow Claire at @TheUniverse.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:Brian and Claire wrote about their science fiction anthology and what you can expect from it.Some of the stories mentioned in our conversation are “Busy” by Omar El Akkad, “One Day, I Will Die on Mars” by Paul Ford, and “Devolution” by Ellen Ullman.Brian also wrote about the metaverse and the science fiction that inspired it for Vice.Langdon Winner wrote about the concept of epistemological Luddism in his book Autonomous Technology. Zachary Loeb expanded on it in a great essay called “Luddism for These Ludicrous Times.”Cory Doctorow wrote about science fiction being a Luddite literature.Support the show

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We're joined by Sumana Harihareswara, a FOSS advocate yes, but also a person of so many other talents! We talk about sketching, standup comedy, and maintainership for the long life of free software projects. (Did you know you can hire Sumana to help on your FOSS project maintainership btw? Sumana runs Changeset Consulting!) We also talk about representation in the FOSS community within the arts (especially narrative arts), and about learning new skills within "no big deal" contexts.Links:Changeset ConsultingSumana's LibrePlanet 2017 keynote: Lessons, myths, and lenses: What I wish I'd known in 1998Producing Open Source SoftwareVidding and some of its origins in the slideshow form (in particular with Kandy Fong's early works)More on fanworks and fan communities and their history at fanlore.orgVid: Pipeline by, as it turns out, Sumana Harihareswara!Vid: Only a Lad by Laura ShapiroVid: Straightening Up the House by eruthros; also see all this other great commentary!The Bug by Ellen UllmanHalt and Catch FireThe Internet's Own Boy, a film and play about Aaron Swartz, which you can watch here in movie form (we're trying to find references to the play version... if you know something we should put up, let us know here!)Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and also the critical response Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison ParrishXKCDJulia Styles in GhostwriterSoftware Freedom Conservancy, who is doing a fundraiser right now!Sumana's fundraising vid for Conservancy in 2015Chris's animated ascii art card for Conservancy in 2019 (source code)If you're interested in Sumana's upcoming book on long-term maintenance of FOSS projects, you can contact her for more info!

Ellen Ullman is a computer programmer, essayist on technology and culture and an author of four books — two nonfiction and two novels — on the human side of technology. Her most recent book, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, in 2007 was named by the San Francisco Chronicle among the best books of the year.Life in Code bookends her earlier work, in 1997, where that was named Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, recounting life as a woman technologist amongst and almost exclusively male workforce at the start of the global digital revolution. Twenty years later, Ullman reflects on digital technology's loss of innocence and reckons with all that has changed and so much that hasn't.Dean of engineering Tsu-Jae King Liu spoke with Ullman on March 8, 2019, during the annual Women in Technology symposium at UC Berkeley. The daylong event was sponsored by WITI@UC, a joint initiative of Berkeley Engineering and CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.Read the transcript on Berkeley News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Ask a Better Question* for Sunday, 24 March 2019; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology* by Ellen Ullman (2017); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Walk with Me* (2017); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *What I Have Learned So Far* by Mary Oliver.

This episode of The Archive Project features authors and digital commentators Doree Shafrir and Ellen Ullman in conversation at 2017's Portland Book Festival. This discussion, aptly titled “Disruption: Feminist Digital Culture” and moderated by the New York Times' Jazmine Hughes, takes a hard look at what it means to be a woman in tech, both past and present.

This month we're looking back at our biggest book-publishing-meets-technology conference ever. From March 21-23, 2018, hundreds of professionals from across the industry, from ebook developers to librarians, converged in Toronto for Tech Forum and ebookcraft to share, learn, and debate the future of the industry. We've put together a highlight reel from some of our favourite talks (though they were all amazing), with insights on topics like metadata for ebooks, how retailers are bridging the digital divide, some great moments from our women in publishing panel, and lots more. Talks highlighted: 1:00 - Dave Cramer (Hachette), "Jiminy and Dave's Excellent CSS Adventure" 2:30 - Rose Donohoo (OverDrive), "Oh the Places Ebooks Go! An ebook's journey from creation to circulation" 3:30 - Noah Genner (BookNet Canada), "How We Read Digitally: ebookcraft 2018 research study" 4:25 - Monique Mongeon (BookNet Canada), "How We Read Digitally: ebookcraft 2018 research study" 5:12 - Ellen Ullman (Life in Code), "Ellen Ullman in Conversation" 7:38 - Scaachi Koul (Buzzfeed), "Women in Publishing Panel" 10:52 - Bhavna Chauhan (Penguin Random House Canada), "Women in Publishing Panel" 12:50 - Joshua Tallent (Firebrand Technologies), "Backlist Keywords" 14:30 - Jennifer Haines (The Dragon), "Retailers Bridging the Digital Divide" 15:08 - Serah-Marie McMahon (TYPE Books), "Retailers Bridging the Digital Divide" 15:49 - Noah Genner (BookNet Canada), "State of the Publishing Nation 2018" 16:22: - Jon Fleming (Audible), Reka Rubin (Harlequin), Nastaran Bisheban (Kobo), "Audio-First Publishing Panel" 18:35 - Jessamyn C. West (Randolph Technical Career Center), "Libraries Bridging the Digital Divide" Watch the talks on BookNet Canada's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/BookNetCanadaVideos Join the Tech Forum & ebookcraft mailing list: http://eepurl.com/Z8aIL Tech Forum is presented by BookNet Canada. ebookcraft is presented by BookNet Canada and eBOUND Canada. techforum.booknetcanada.ca

Authors and digital commentators Doree Shafrir and Ellen Ullman take a hard look at what it means to be a woman in tech, both past and present, in this conversation from 2017's Portland Book Festival.

In this episode, author and coder Ellen Ullman is joined in conversation by CIIS writing professor, Carolyn Cooke, to explore the transformation of society through the rise of the internet.

Life in Code author, Ellen Ullman talks about the tech industry and how its tools are changing us on a daily basis. Dan Costa - Host Weston Almond - Producer/Director Kirsten Cluthe - Producer Pete Haas - Social Media Manager Jamie Lendino - Original Music   In PCMag's Fast Forward video series, editor-in-chief Dan Costa talks to industry leaders about ground-breaking technology that will shape our future. Check out some of Dan's previous interviews here: https://goo.gl/rLPrCk   PCMag.com is your ultimate destination for tech reviews and news. Subscribe to our videos here: https://goo.gl/JfBShr   Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PCMag Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PCMag Gawk at our photos on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pcmagofficial Get our latest tips and tricks on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pcmag

Have we moved too far away from the mainframe? Do engineers need more empathy? Does technology have a woman problem? Paul and Gina talk to Ellen Ullman to find out how the past 20 years of tech are shaping the next 20.

Ellen Ullman, Former Software Engineer, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her new book "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" describing the social, emotional, and personal effects of technology as viewed by her time in the field on Women@Work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ellen Ullman, coder and author, talks with Laura Zarrow about 'Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology.' She explores the power and implications of the digital revolution – with a critical eye, and deep humanity.Aired on October 25, 2017 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Veteran programmer Ellen Ullman shares her personal experiences in the mostly male world of coding. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Silicon Valley has a gender issue. That's hardly breaking news. But things have escalated recently. Some examples from the last few weeks: The Ellen Pao saga. The James Damore memo at Google. The ouster of Uber’s CEO. The frat-house behavior at SoFi. The utter lack of consequences for VR startup Upload. Sometimes it's straight-up harassment. And sometimes problems stem from the bro bubble - nice guys, but they’re all the same guys. Everyone else “isn’t a good fit.” Ellen Ullman has seen both. She started programming in 1978, when she wandered past a Radio Shack and taught herself how to code on the first personal computer. Ellen's new book, Life in Code, is full of great and awful stories. Her love of the work. The joys of hunting down a bug. But also, the client who would rub her back while she tried to fix his system. The party full of young men drinking beer, including Larry Page, who offered her a job on the spot. Forget about appealing to the tech elite, she says. We have to invade the culture. Find allies where we can, and build an army of programmers focused on our shared humanity. Ellen Ullman and Manoush will be in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore on Tuesday, September 26th. Come see them in person, buy some books, and get tips on storming the gates IRL.  About that stock photo: We had a lot of laughs about all the absurd photos of women and computers. But it’s a real problem when all the images are of white women looking confused when confronting a keyboard, or when photos like this one are called "Cute businesswoman angry with PC." The team behind #WOCinTechChat took on this issue a couple years ago, organizing a collection of stock photos of women of color doing technology right. That project has now moved over to Buffer’s Pablo site, and the images are still available for your use any time you need a photo of any human in tech. 

Silicon Valley has a gender issue. That's hardly breaking news. But things have escalated recently. Some examples from the last few weeks: The Ellen Pao saga. The James Damore memo at Google. The ouster of Uber’s CEO. The frat-house behavior at SoFi. The utter lack of consequences for VR startup Upload. Sometimes it's straight-up harassment. And sometimes problems stem from the bro bubble - nice guys, but they’re all the same guys. Everyone else “isn’t a good fit.” Ellen Ullman has seen both. She started programming in 1978, when she wandered past a Radio Shack and taught herself how to code on the first personal computer. Ellen's new book, Life in Code, is full of great and awful stories. Her love of the work. The joys of hunting down a bug. But also, the client who would rub her back while she tried to fix his system. The party full of young men drinking beer, including Larry Page, who offered her a job on the spot. Forget about appealing to the tech elite, she says. We have to invade the culture. Find allies where we can, and build an army of programmers focused on our shared humanity. Ellen Ullman and Manoush will be in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore on Tuesday, September 26th. Come see them in person, buy some books, and get tips on storming the gates IRL.  About that stock photo: We had a lot of laughs about all the absurd photos of women and computers. But it’s a real problem when all the images are of white women looking confused when confronting a keyboard, or when photos like this one are called "Cute businesswoman angry with PC." The team behind #WOCinTechChat took on this issue a couple years ago, organizing a collection of stock photos of women of color doing technology right. That project has now moved over to Buffer’s Pablo site, and the images are still available for your use any time you need a photo of any human in tech. 

Silicon Valley has a gender issue. That's hardly breaking news. But things have escalated recently. Some examples from the last few weeks: The Ellen Pao saga. The James Damore memo at Google. The ouster of Uber’s CEO. The frat-house behavior at SoFi. The utter lack of consequences for VR startup Upload. Sometimes it's straight-up harassment. And sometimes problems stem from the bro bubble - nice guys, but they’re all the same guys. Everyone else “isn’t a good fit.” Ellen Ullman has seen both. She started programming in 1978, when she wandered past a Radio Shack and taught herself how to code on the first personal computer. Ellen's new book, Life in Code, is full of great and awful stories. Her love of the work. The joys of hunting down a bug. But also, the client who would rub her back while she tried to fix his system. The party full of young men drinking beer, including Larry Page, who offered her a job on the spot. Forget about appealing to the tech elite, she says. We have to invade the culture. Find allies where we can, and build an army of programmers focused on our shared humanity. Ellen Ullman and Manoush will be in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore on Tuesday, September 26th. Come see them in person, buy some books, and get tips on storming the gates IRL.  About that stock photo: We had a lot of laughs about all the absurd photos of women and computers. But it’s a real problem when all the images are of white women looking confused when confronting a keyboard, or when photos like this one are called "Cute businesswoman angry with PC." The team behind #WOCinTechChat took on this issue a couple years ago, organizing a collection of stock photos of women of color doing technology right. That project has now moved over to Buffer’s Pablo site, and the images are still available for your use any time you need a photo of any human in tech. 

Silicon Valley has a gender issue. That's hardly breaking news. But things have escalated recently. Some examples from the last few weeks: The Ellen Pao saga. The James Damore memo at Google. The ouster of Uber’s CEO. The frat-house behavior at SoFi. The utter lack of consequences for VR startup Upload. Sometimes it's straight-up harassment. And sometimes problems stem from the bro bubble - nice guys, but they’re all the same guys. Everyone else “isn’t a good fit.” Ellen Ullman has seen both. She started programming in 1978, when she wandered past a Radio Shack and taught herself how to code on the first personal computer. Ellen's new book, Life in Code, is full of great and awful stories. Her love of the work. The joys of hunting down a bug. But also, the client who would rub her back while she tried to fix his system. The party full of young men drinking beer, including Larry Page, who offered her a job on the spot. Forget about appealing to the tech elite, she says. We have to invade the culture. Find allies where we can, and build an army of programmers focused on our shared humanity. Ellen Ullman and Manoush will be in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore on Tuesday, September 26th. Come see them in person, buy some books, and get tips on storming the gates IRL.  About that stock photo: We had a lot of laughs about all the absurd photos of women and computers. But it’s a real problem when all the images are of white women looking confused when confronting a keyboard, or when photos like this one are called "Cute businesswoman angry with PC." The team behind #WOCinTechChat took on this issue a couple years ago, organizing a collection of stock photos of women of color doing technology right. That project has now moved over to Buffer’s Pablo site, and the images are still available for your use any time you need a photo of any human in tech. 

Silicon Valley has a gender issue. That's hardly breaking news. But things have escalated recently. Some examples from the last few weeks: The Ellen Pao saga. The James Damore memo at Google. The ouster of Uber’s CEO. The frat-house behavior at SoFi. The utter lack of consequences for VR startup Upload. Sometimes it's straight-up harassment. And sometimes problems stem from the bro bubble - nice guys, but they’re all the same guys. Everyone else “isn’t a good fit.” Ellen Ullman has seen both. She started programming in 1978, when she wandered past a Radio Shack and taught herself how to code on the first personal computer. Ellen's new book, Life in Code, is full of great and awful stories. Her love of the work. The joys of hunting down a bug. But also, the client who would rub her back while she tried to fix his system. The party full of young men drinking beer, including Larry Page, who offered her a job on the spot. Forget about appealing to the tech elite, she says. We have to invade the culture. Find allies where we can, and build an army of programmers focused on our shared humanity. Ellen Ullman and Manoush will be in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore on Tuesday, September 26th. Come see them in person, buy some books, and get tips on storming the gates IRL.  About that stock photo: We had a lot of laughs about all the absurd photos of women and computers. But it’s a real problem when all the images are of white women looking confused when confronting a keyboard, or when photos like this one are called "Cute businesswoman angry with PC." The team behind #WOCinTechChat took on this issue a couple years ago, organizing a collection of stock photos of women of color doing technology right. That project has now moved over to Buffer’s Pablo site, and the images are still available for your use any time you need a photo of any human in tech. 

We gave a rare starred review to bestselling thriller writer Karin Slaughter's new novel THE GOOD DAUGHTER. Slaughter talks to us on todays episode about why she sets all of her novels in Georgia, what it's like being a continual bestseller, and where she gets her ideas from. And pioneering tech worker and writer Ellen Ullman also joins us to talk about her new memoir, LIFE IN CODE: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, which our critic calls, "a sharply written, politically charged memoir of life in the data trenches." Our editors talk about which bestsellers they think are worth your time and which you can safely skip!

Računalniki so nenavadne naprave. Včasih se zdijo zelo človeški, a se zapletejo pri najbolj preprostih opravilih. Nikoli jim ne moreš reči: saj veš, kaj mislim! Ne vedo, ker zgolj izpolnjujejo ukaze iz programskih vrstic. Ukaze, ki jih je nekoč napisal neznani programer.

Ellen Ullman is a writer and computer programmer, whose new novel By Blood takes place in dystopic 1970s San Francisco. We talk with her about the promise and threat of that time in the Bay Area, the difference between human and computer language, and some of the barriers to there being more female programmers.

Libby Purves meets nature writer Richard Mabey; Gladys Hudgell and Eva Rodwell who worked at the Tate & Lyle sugar factory in East London; software programmer turned author Ellen Ullman; and artist Pedro Reyes. Richard Mabey is a nature writer. He is the author of some thirty books including Food for Free, Weeds and Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize. In his new book, Turned Out Nice Again, he weaves together science, art and memory to illuminate our pre-occupation with the weather. Turned Out Nice Again - Living with the Weather is published by Profile Books. Gladys Hudgell and Eva Rodwell worked at the Tate and Lyle factory in East London in the early fifties. Girls who worked there were known as 'sugar girls'. The Sugar Girls - Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate and Lyle's East End,is published by Harper Collins. The exhibition Sugar Girls: Working Women of Newham is currently on tour. Ellen Ullman is a former software programmer turned author. Her memoir, Close To The Machine, tells of her life as a software programmer in San Francisco during the formative years of Silicon Valley. Close To The Machine is published by Pushkin Press. Her latest novel, By Blood, is published by Pushkin Press. Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist whose new show, Disarm, highlights the drug and gun crime crisis in Mexico. He transforms firearms, confiscated by the Mexican government, into an orchestra of fully-workable musical instruments. He has collaborated with John Coxon of Spiritualized to create a limited edition vinyl record as part of his installation. Disarm is at the Lisson Gallery, Bell Street, London NW1. Producer: Annette Wells.

Sean and Chris have mixed feelings about By Blood, a San Francisco-set novel told from a disturbing and compelling voyeuristic perspective, but they ultimately decided it was worth the read.

Chris, Sean, and Jake start to fill a hole in their reading history as they dive into Pynchon for the first time. Enjoy their inexpert but enthusiastic flailing amidst the baffling waters of postmodernism. Join us next month for a discussion of Ellen Ullman's By Blood.

Ellen Ullman discusses many of technology's downsides and faults and describes how it can be improved to better serve society and art. (November 2, 2012)

The Spring 2007 issue of Cable in the Classroom's Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on taking educational innovation to scale, produced in partnership with the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF).In this podcast [MP3, 39MB], Christopher Dede (Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education) with the assistance of Threshold's Ellen Ullman moderates a panel that explores the current state of 'scalability,' educational change, and how to get where we need to be - a topic of critical importance to the government, grantmakers, and all those seeking to spread successful educational practices to other classrooms, school, districts, and states. Panel participants include:Kathleen Fulton, Director for Reinventing Schools, NCTAF;L. McLean King, Superintendent of the Encinitas (Calif.) Union School District (and a Cable in the Classroom National Education Advisory Board member);Trish Millines Dziko, Executive Director, Technology Access Foundation; andJosh Zoia, Principal, KIPP Academy Lynn (Massachusetts).An edited transcript of this conversation appears as one of several excellent articles on this same topic.The full text of Threshold editions is available free online at www.ciconline.org/threshold. Past issues explore topics such as the future of math and science education, high school reform and 21st century skills, emergency preparedness, and much more.Be sure to comment (below) or on iTunes to let us know what you think of this podcast (or the series)!Technorati tags: Threshold, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, NCTAF, Chris Dede, HSGE, scaling up, going to scale, scaling innovation, educational innovation, technology innovation, Kathleen Fulton, Encinitas Union School District, Technology Access Foundation, techaccess, TAF, KIPP, Josh Zoia, CIC, Cable in the Classroom, cableintheclassroom, tv, school, education