One sunny summer holidays afternoon in those days before lockdown, I wanted to get my girls, who were then nine
Continue readingCategory: Musings
Digital Anthropology
Anthropology, the scientific study of humanity, has long looked at the behaviour, culture and society, of often remote tribes in
Continue readingWhen women were computers
The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid
Continue readingFighting, typing, and computing
Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been
Continue readingXed by X
X started asking me for my date of birth a few months ago. I can’t quite remember exactly when but
Continue reading