Hidden histories: Oxford’s female computing pioneers

Speaker
Professor Ursula Martin
Event date
Event time
17:00 - 18:30
Venue
Lecture Theatre L1
Lecture Theatre L1, Mathematical Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Event type
Lectures and seminars
Disabled access?
No
Booking required
Not required

Join us in Oxford Mathematics on 27th February 2020 for a talk and discussion celebrating the Bodleian Libraries' release of interviews by Georgina Ferry of some of Oxford’s female computing pioneers.

Some remarkable women shaped Oxford computing: Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize for work on insulin; Susan Hockey pioneered digital humanities; Shirley Carter, Linda Hayes and Joan Walsh got the pioneering software company NAG off the ground in 1970; and female operators and programmers were at the heart of the early large-scale computing efforts powering 20th-century science.

4.30pm: Welcome tea

5.00pm: Professor Ursula Martin - Hidden histories: Oxford’s female computing pioneers

5.45pm: Panel discussion chaired by science writer Georgina Ferry and featuring some of the the pioneers themselves