Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 202617 min
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This year, October 13 marks Ada Lovelace Day, an observance that calls attention to the role of women in computing and technology. In this conversation from 2018, Ira talks with Claire Evans, author of “Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet,” about some of the women who played key roles in the development of computing. Then, Stacy Horn joins the conversation to describe her creation, EchoNYC, an early bulletin board service. Guests: Claire L. Evans is the author of “Broad Band: The Women Who Made The Internet.” Stacy Horn is the found...

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Women helped build the structure of our modern Internet from UNIVAC to ARPANET to hypertext.

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Hey, it's Ira and you're listening to Science Friday. Remember the hidden figures NASA's human computers or Apollo computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton whose software helped land people on the moon and who passed away last week. Just a few examples of women who were pioneers in computers and technology.

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Women helped build the structure of our modern Internet from UNIVAC to ARPANET to hypertext. No woman is more remembered for her work in computing and as a programming pioneer than Ada Lovelace, creator of the first computer algorithm.

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Today we celebrate Ada Lovelace week and what better way than to listen to a conversation I had back in 2018 with Claire Evans, author of the book Broadband,

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