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ChatGPT, AlphaZero, Deepfakes, selbstfahrende Autos – Künstliche Intelligenz ist aus unserem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. KI erleichtert inzwischen in vielen Bereichen unser Leben und hilft bei Problemlösungen, wie etwa in der Medizin oder in der Landwirtschaft. Aber KI-erzeugte Fake News fluten auch das Netz, Deepfakes imitieren Politiker täuschend echt und legen ihnen Worte in den Mund, die sie nie gesagt haben. Hinzu kommt: KI verbraucht Unmengen an Energie für die komplexen Rechenprozesse, die dahinterstecken. Und Künstliche Intelligenz wird mit Daten trainiert, die wir zum Beispiel auf Social Media zur Verfügung stellen. Aber was ist dann mit dem Datenschutz? Was, wenn eine KI mit Hilfe von Gesichtserkennung Menschen identifiziert und klassifiziert und sie dadurch Nachteile haben, etwa im Beruf oder im Alltag? Ein Podcast über antike Vorstellungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz, den ersten Chatbot der Geschichte und die Frage: Versteht eine KI eigentlich Humor? Gesprächspartner*innen Mar Hicks Christopher Koska Adrienne Mayor Dinah Pfau Richard Socher Team Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann Sprecher*innen: Andrea Kath, Nils Kretschmer, Lauralie Schweiger Buch und Regie: objektiv media GmbH, Janine Funke und Andrea Kath Technik: Sascha Schiemann Musik: Sonoton Produktion: objektiv media GmbH im Auftrag des ZDF Redaktion ZDF: Katharina Kolvenbach Literatur Abbate, Janet (2000): Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology). Catani, Stephanie (Hrsg.) (2024): Handbuch Künstliche Intelligenz und die Künste. Dendorfer, Jürgen; Hochbruck, Wolfgang; Pape, Jessica (2024): Ritter Basisartikel: Ritterspiele: Das höfische Mittelalter als Geschichte und Projektion. Fischer, Ernst Peter (2023): Ein Scheiterhaufen der Wissenschaft: Die Großen an ihren Grenzen. Gutmann, Mathias; Wiegerling, Klaus; Rathgeber, Benjamin (Hrsg.) (2024): Handbuch Technikphilosophie. Hartmann, Doreen (2015): Zwischen Mathematik und Poesie. Leben und Werk von Ada Lovelace, in: Sybille Krämer (Hrsg.): Ada Lovelace. Die Pionierin der Computertechnik und ihre Nachfolgerinnen, S.15-33. Hicks, Mar (2017): Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing). Klüver, Christina; Klüver, Jürgen (2022): Ewiges Leben durch künstliche Intelligenz und künstliche Gesellschaften. Koska, Christopher (2021): Ethik der Algorithmen. Auf der Suche nach Zahlen und Werten (Bd. 6). Menabrea, Luigi Frederico; Lovelace, Ada (1996), in: Grundriss der von Charles Babbage erfundenen Analytical Engine, S. 309-381. Mayor, Adrienne (2020): Götter und Maschinen. Wie die Antike das 21. Jahrhundert erfand. Project Metadata (2023): AI and Poetry. Settele, Veronika; Schmitt, Martin (2024): Cows and Computers. Electronic Data Processing in German Cattle Farming, 1960s-1990s. Weizenbaum, Joseph (1966): ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine, in: Communications of the ACM, Volume 9, Issue 1, S.36-45. Internetquellen https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/wenn-ki-freunde-zur-gefahr-werden-suizid-in-den-usa-zeigt-tragischen-verlauf-einer-ki-beziehung,USgb6Ux https://www.mpg.de/frauen-in-der-forschung/ada-lovelace https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/frueheste-tonaufnahmen-100.html https://www.bbc.com/mundo/media-40632577 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/john-mccarthy-der-vater-der-rechner-cloud-ist-tot-a-793795.html https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/homer/ilias23/chap018.html https://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/meldung/es_lebt__zur_geschichte_der_auto-6395.html https://www.technischesmuseum.at/museum/tmw-zine_-_unsere_storys/ki_zine/magazin_detail&j-cc-id=1625732690814&j-cc-node=magazineintrag&j-cc-name=hybrid-content

Writers Strike Marks The Beginning, The Coming AI Election & Has Media Matters Lost Its Edge? (DNB) The War To End All Chatbot Wars, The Coming AI Election, and Has Media Matters Lost Its Edge? DNB DNB XR: Table Reads w/Cam & Brad & Ad Free DNB https://www.patreon.com/propagandareport https://propreport.locals.com/ https://www.propagandafight.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Softbank's chip designer Arm has confidentially filed to go public, seeking a valuation of $30 billion to $70 billion in what is shaping up to be the biggest IPO of the year. Could it be the key to thawing a frozen IPO pipeline? Plus, investor Brad Gerstner lit into Sundar Pichai for losing Google's AI lead to OpenAI, leaving investors questioning whether he can get tough on the issue. 

Paris Marx is joined by Rosie Collington to discuss the consequences of outsourcing tech to the private sector, how it causes governments to lose important capacities to serve the public, and how the push for open government data empowered large tech firms.Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. She's also the co-author of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies with Mariana Mazzucato. You can follow Rosie on Twitter at @RosieCollingto.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, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:Rosie wrote a paper called “Disrupting the Welfare State? Digitalisation and the Retrenchment of Public Sector Capacity” for New Political Economy, and a report calling “Digital Public Assets” for Common Wealth.Palantir has a massive and controversial contract with the NHS. That hasn't stopped Peter Thiel from criticizing the UK's public healthcare system.Mar Hicks wrote about the masculinization of the computer workforce in Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.Support the show

Go to https://www.RocketMoney.com/GENIUS to get rid of useless subscriptions and potentially save hundreds per year with Rocket Money now! Follow David on Insta: @DavidSoComedy Follow Ed Park on Insta: @EdParkVP @SCRTSOCIETY Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/GeniusBrainPod To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/GeniusBrainYouTube If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/GeniusBrainPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why is Christianity seen as irrelevant in the modern world? How did our message get so diluted that it now appears bland? What are the causes of our compromise with culture? How can we recover the radical implications of the Gospel? And are we ready to pay the price of persecution for doing so? Our first ever LIVE recording of Pod of the Gaps sees us team up with entrepreneur, David Stretton-Downes at Cedarwood Festival. We discuss this vital theme on the mission of the Church, appropriately enough, in the presence of an aeroplane! We also take questions from the audience, and discuss the number one thing that excites us about the challenges that lie ahead. ** PLEASE HELP SUPPORT POD OF THE GAPS ** 1. Tell your friends 2. Leave us a review/rating 3. Sign up to support us @ https://www.patreon.com/wkop — you'll get access to additional content, including the video version of this episode! ====== Here are some of the resources and other things mentioned in the episode: - https://cedarwoodfestival.com/ - https://www.bobbiesbrownies.com/collections/brownies - https://www.mission24.co.uk/ - https://thatgoodfight.com/fighting-with-lions/ - https://www.ywampublishing.com/p-470-christian-heroes-then-nowbrcomplete-set-books-1-50.aspx - https://www.solas-cpc.org/category/video/shortanswers/

Most people know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex. And yet, we often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. We believe that there was a situation before this or that media, and then another situation after. Sometimes there are worries about this subsequent situation; or nostalgia for how things were before. In other instances, people wager hope that novel media might bring positive or empowering changes. When media technologies are seen as transformative, they have often been described as ‘new media'. The term ‘new media' began to acquire some currency in the 1960s, in the age of television. But its use exploded in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Why? Many answers were put forward: the internet, interactivity, multimedia, mobile devices, user-generated content. But for some, the new media of this moment came out of a longer-term and more general development: the rise of the computer as a media technology. Not just a new addition to all the other technologies. Rather, an emergent backbone for virtually all mediated communication and experience. In this episode, we look at how this argument is exemplified by the work of digital media theorist Lev Manovich, who suggests that what makes new media ‘new' is its creation, storage, distribution and display via the language (i.e. software code) and hardware of digital computation. On a basic level, computational media all share a basic metabolism of binary code: ultimately describable with nothing more than 1s and 0s. The question, however, is broader than this: beyond previous media formats becoming absorbed into the medium of the computer, are we seeing the rise of a specifically ‘computational' culture? Thinkers Discussed: Lev Manovich (The Language of New Media / Software Takes Command); Mark B.N. Hansen (New Philosophy for New Media); Alexander Galloway (The Interface Effect); Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin (Remediation: Understanding New Media) Gabriele Balbi and Paolo Magaudda (A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective); Lewis Mumford (Authoritarian and Democratic Technics); Fred Turner (From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism); Jennifer Light (When Computers Were Women); Mar Hicks (Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing); Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg (Personal Dynamic Media); David Berry (Against Remediation).

Part 1 - Are Shimano's new groupsets a disappointment? 12-speed, semi-wireless, looks great... what's not to love? On episode 6 of the road.cc Podcast, the team discuss whether Shimano has gone far enough with its latest big groupset launch by comparing to previous big Shimano launches, and recent innovations from other groupset manufacturers. Do we love it, or have we been left feeling underwhelmed? John Stevenson, Mat Brett, Liam Cahill and Jack Sexty discuss.Part 2 - How do you prevent cramp and hydrate properly on long rides? Jack talks to Andy Blow from Precision Hydration about how nailing your hydration strategy could be the key to riding your bike for longer, while avoiding those dreaded cramps in your legs that can turn a pleasant ride into a painful nightmare. Is taking a ‘sweat test' to work out exactly how much salt and fluid you need only worth it for the pros, or a worthwhile investment for us Average Joes too? Part 3 - Why does John hate mini pumps? What has the humble mini pump ever done to him? Our resident grumpy Yorkshireman John Stevenson explains why petit pumps perturb him, while Jack and Liam also chip in with some other cycling products that they don't particularly get on with. Whats your cycling pet peeve? 

Paris Marx is joined by Mar Hicks to discuss why we need to know the history of tech and how the British history of sexism and colonialism in computing has lessons for the present-day US tech industry.Mar Hicks is the co-editor of “Your Computer Is on Fire,” along with Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, and Kavita Philip. They are also the author of “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” and an Associate Professor of the History of Technology at Illinois Tech. Follow Mar on Twitter as @histoftech.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, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Mar wrote about the story of COBOL computer systems in the early months of the pandemic and how Britain killed its tech industry.Google fired top AI ethicists Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell after their research was critical of the company’s practices. Diversity recruiter April Christina Curley was also fired in September 2020.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Worries about media technologies often stem from their association with change, change that may be perceived as positive or negative. Even though we tend know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex, we also often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. To believe that there was a situation before this or that media, and then another situation after. These apparently transformative media technologies have often been described as ‘new media'. This term began to acquire some currency in the 1960s, in the age of television. But its use exploded in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Why? There were many answers: the internet, interactivity, multimedia, mobile devices, user-generated content. But for some, the new media of this moment came out of a longer-term and more general development: the rise of the computer as a media technology. Not just a new addition, to all the other technologies, but an emergent backbone for virtually all mediated communication and experience. In this episode, we look at how this argument is exemplified by the work of digital media theorist Lev Manovich, who suggests that what makes new media ‘new' is its creation, storage, distribution and display via the language (i.e. software code) and hardware of digital computation. On a basic level, computational media all share a basic metabolism of binary code: ultimately describable with nothing more than 1s and 0s. The question, however, is broader than this: beyond previous media formats becoming absorbed into the medium of the computer, are we seeing the rise of a specifically ‘computational' culture? Thinkers Discussed: Lev Manovich (The Language of New Media / Software Takes Command); Mark B.N. Hansen (New Philosophy for New Media); Alexander Galloway (The Interface Effect); Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin (Remediation: Understanding New Media) Gabriele Balbi and Paolo Magaudda (A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective); Lewis Mumford (Authoritarian and Democratic Technics); Fred Turner (From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism); Jennifer Light (When Computers Were Women); Mar Hicks (Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing); Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg (Personal Dynamic Media); David Berry (Against Remediation).

Robby speaks with Trisha Gee, Developer Advocate at JetBrains. They discuss Trisha's role as a Developer Advocate, how open source library maintainers are underappreciated, and how developers can overcome their fear of writing, speaking, and contributing back to the community.Helpful LinksFollow Trisha on TwitterTrisha's blogIntelliJ IDEARubyMind[Book] 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know[Book] Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Mar HicksSubscribe to Maintainable on:Apple PodcastsOvercastSpotifyOr search "Maintainable" wherever you stream your podcasts.

Misogyny in tech industries and the information professions isn't an accident. It was created and has a long history. And it comes with great costs to individual people and society at large. This week the pod's main segment is on Mar Hick's award-winning 2018 book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.

Sponsor Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Chris Fritz Divya Sasidharan Ben Hong Natalia Tepluhina Erik Hanchett Joined by Special Guest: Krystal Campioni Summary Krystal Campioni starts by introducing herself and her background. She shares how she got into Vue and her design education. She shares resources for developers looking to learn more about design. She shares free online animation resources. The panel shares their favorite animation tips and discusses what makes vue a great framework for animations. The panel considers the value of animation; what are the benefits for both the user and the team. Links http://cubic-bezier.com/ https://easings.net/en https://twitter.com/sarah_edo Visualizations using SVG, Canvas, and WebGL in Vue https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/transitions.html https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/computed.html https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-the-complete-guide/ https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/transitioning-state.html https://refactoringui.com/book/ Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Vue in Motion https://twitter.com/kenny_io/status/1114206038801014784 http://krystalcampioni.com/#/ https://twitter.com/krystalcampioni https://medium.com/@krystalcampioni https://github.com/krystalcampioni/vue-animations https://twitter.com/viewsonvue https://www.facebook.com/ViewsonVue   Picks Chris Fritz: https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/ Agile Design Systems in Vue Agile Design Systems in Vue by Miriam Suzanne A React Point of Vue A React Point of Vue by Divya Sasidharan Building Desktop Applications with Vue Building Desktop Applications with Vue by Natalia Tepluhina Divya Sasidharan: https://www.customink.com/designs/dsdrasnerd https://www.vuemastery.com/conferences/vueconf-us-2018 Advanced Animations with Vue.js Advanced Animations with Vue.js by Krystal Campioni Back to the Vueture: Stuck in the Event Loop Back to the Vueture: Stuck in the Event Loop by Tessa Ben Hong: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Natalia Tepluhina: Game of Thrones Krystal Campioni: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) https://github.com/krystalcampioni/vue-hotel-datepicker

Sponsor Netlify Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Chris Fritz Divya Sasidharan Ben Hong Natalia Tepluhina Erik Hanchett Joined by Special Guest: Krystal Campioni Summary Krystal Campioni starts by introducing herself and her background. She shares how she got into Vue and her design education. She shares resources for developers looking to learn more about design. She shares free online animation resources. The panel shares their favorite animation tips and discusses what makes vue a great framework for animations. The panel considers the value of animation; what are the benefits for both the user and the team. Links http://cubic-bezier.com/ https://easings.net/en https://twitter.com/sarah_edo Visualizations using SVG, Canvas, and WebGL in Vue https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/transitions.html https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/computed.html https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-the-complete-guide/ https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/transitioning-state.html https://refactoringui.com/book/ Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Vue in Motion https://twitter.com/kenny_io/status/1114206038801014784 http://krystalcampioni.com/#/ https://twitter.com/krystalcampioni https://medium.com/@krystalcampioni https://github.com/krystalcampioni/vue-animations https://twitter.com/viewsonvue https://www.facebook.com/ViewsonVue   Picks Chris Fritz: https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/ Agile Design Systems in Vue Agile Design Systems in Vue by Miriam Suzanne A React Point of Vue A React Point of Vue by Divya Sasidharan Building Desktop Applications with Vue Building Desktop Applications with Vue by Natalia Tepluhina Divya Sasidharan: https://www.customink.com/designs/dsdrasnerd https://www.vuemastery.com/conferences/vueconf-us-2018 Advanced Animations with Vue.js Advanced Animations with Vue.js by Krystal Campioni Back to the Vueture: Stuck in the Event Loop Back to the Vueture: Stuck in the Event Loop by Tessa Ben Hong: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Natalia Tepluhina: Game of Thrones Krystal Campioni: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) https://github.com/krystalcampioni/vue-hotel-datepicker

Mar Hicks, Associate Professor of  History at Illinois Institute of Technology, drops in to talk about the history of technology and how algorithmic bias has evolved over the years. They discuss topics from how women were purposefully excluded from the tech industry to how transgender algorithmic bias began in the 70’s. Mar shares insights about bias in tech that you have probably experienced but might have only given a passing thought. Mar tells an anecdote about one of the earliest examples of institutionally trans algorithmic bias by the British government in the early 70’s. This episode is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.   LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Mar’s Book: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya Umoja Nobles   MUSICAL INSPIRATION FOR THIS EPISODE ON SPOTIFY: "We Belong" by Pat Benatar   ABOUT THIS PODCAST Stayin' Alive in Tech is an oral history of Silicon Valley and technology. Melinda Byerley, the host, is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley and the founder of Timeshare CMO, a digital marketing intelligence firm, based in San Francisco. We really appreciate your reviews, shares on social media, and your recommendations for future guests. And check out our Spotify playlist for all the songs we refer to on our show.

In the 1940s, programming was viewed as women's work. However, as electronic computing matured the proportion of women working in this field declined. Mar Hicks, author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, explained why programming was viewed as women's work and how the labor conditions in Britain and the perception of computing pushed women out of the field. We talked about the role of programming during World War II and how women were using computers. Mar also explained the impact that forcing women out of the tech field had on Britain's technological power.

This week's episode examines prejudice in technological development. Marie Hicks discusses her book "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing." Tom Mullaney talks about "The Chinese Typewriter: A History" which examines the development of a modern, nonalphabetic information infrastructure.   Open Stacks is the official podcast of the Seminary Co-operative Bookstores.

In this episode, Anna and Rebecca challenge us to expand our definition of technology to include women's work with technological foods and sewing. Leila breaks down the class and labor implications of a net neutrality rollback and urges feminists to include net neutrality in their activism. And finally, guest Dr. Marie Hicks joins us to talk about their book "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing." For show notes, visit ladyscience.com/episode4-technologyandlabor.

IT WAS ALWAYS one of the biggest days on the league calendar, but does Manchester United v Arsenal bring the same levels of excitement as it used to? Jack Pitt-Brooke of The Independent joins Gavan Casey and Ryan Bailey to chat about that for the latest episode of Close Calls with Eirsport.

The Focus Group this week explores two topics that are ripe for multiple points of view. What's happening to gay culture and are there benefits of quitting a job? But first, The Million Mom's boycott a Disney cartoon that features two mommies, a young couple buys up a private street in the Presidio—unbeknownst to the tony San Fran residents, and a town dedicated to cannabis is welcoming all in California. We're all business. Except when we're not. iTunes: apple.co/1WwDBrC iHeart Radio: bit.ly/2n0Z7H1 Tunein: bit.ly/1SE3NMb Stitcher: bit.ly/1N97Zqu Google Play: bit.ly/1pQTcVW YouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5a Also follow Tim and John on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/focusgroupradio Twitter: www.twitter.com/focusgroupradio Instagram: www.instagram.com/focusgroupradio

Marie Hicks draws on the example of our closest historical cousin–the UK– to look at the ways in which computing initiatives often go wrong in unexpected ways at the national level. In 1944, the UK led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. This talk will outline the systematic processes deployed by the UK government to enhance the nation's technological superiority–and through that its global political standing–and discuss why these efforts went disastrously wrong. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the ways the US is currently falling prey to similar errors of judgement in its attempts to leverage computing technology as an engine of social and economic change. Marie Hicks is an assistant professor of history of technology at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. Her work focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light, and how women's experiences change the core narrative of the history of computing. Hicks's book, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing is available from MIT Press (2017). For more information, see programmedinequality.com. Hicks received her MA and Ph.D. from Duke University and her BA from Harvard University. Before entering academia, she worked as a UNIX systems administrator.

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book's conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick's work on her twitter and on the book's twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book’s conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick’s work on her twitter and on the book’s twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book’s conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick’s work on her twitter and on the book’s twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book’s conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick’s work on her twitter and on the book’s twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book’s conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick’s work on her twitter and on the book’s twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book’s conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick’s work on her twitter and on the book’s twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry by the 1970s? In Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017). Marie Hicks, an Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology, offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of this radical social change. Based on rich and detailed archival and interview sources, packed with illustrations and individual narratives of the 1940s to the 1970s, the book demonstrates how the rigid class and gender hierarchies of British society were recreated and reproduced in attempts to modernise the state through technology. As the book’s conclusion notes, “all history of computing is gendered history,” meaning the book is essential reading for anyone interested in how we have the computing and technology industries we have today. The first chapter of the book can be read here, and you can learn more about the book and Dr. Hick’s work on her twitter and on the book’s twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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