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Dr. Dana Ulery was born #OTD in 1938.

In 1961, Ulery became the first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, where she designed automation real-time tracking systems for the Ranger & Mariner space missions. #WomenInSTEM #computerscience
Portrait photograph of Dana Ulery, a pioneering American computer scientist and the first female engineer hired at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The black-and-white image shows a middle-aged woman with shoulder-length, voluminous wavy hair styled with soft curls framing her face, wearing pearl earrings, a white collared shirt, and a dark jacket. She is smiling warmly at the camera against a plain, light-colored studio background.
January 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
gupolitics.bsky.social
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it."

#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
admirablewomen.bsky.social
Computer scientist Jean E. Sammet (b. #OTD in 1928):

+Developed the FORMAC programming language, 1962
+Co-developer, COBOL programming language
+1st female president, Assoc for Computing Machinery, 1974, world's largest educational & scientific computing society

#WomenInSTEM #computerscience #WHM
Color close-up portrait photograph of American computer scientist and programming language pioneer Jean E. Sammet in her later years. She has short, wavy silver-gray hair, wears thin oval metal-rimmed eyeglasses, bright red lipstick, a royal blue blazer, and a patterned scarf at her neck. She smiles gently toward the viewer against a softly blurred green outdoor background.
March 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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#NASA computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist Annie Easley developed code for the Centaur rocket stage, used to launch the Cassini probe.

Her energy research laid foundations for hybrid vehicle batteries and solar/wind power. She died #OTD in 2011.

#WomenInSTEM #computerscience
This historical photograph features Annie Jean Easley (1933–2011), a trailblazing NASA computer scientist and mathematician whose work on the Centaur rocket stage was pivotal to space exploration. Easley is shown in a medium shot, standing confidently in a NASA control room. She is dressed in a professional, pale peach-colored suit with a high-neck blouse and a matching scarf detail, accessorized with classic gold hoop earrings. Her expression is focused and resolute as she looks slightly past the camera, holding a wooden clipboard and pen as if in the middle of a technical evaluation. The background is dominated by a massive, complex schematic control board filled with red lines, indicator lights, and technical labels. A small, yellowish-bordered inset photo on the wall depicts a laboratory setting. The composition places Easley as the central figure of authority within a highly technical environment. The mood is one of serious intellectual pursuit, capturing the dignity of a woman who broke racial and gender barriers to power the future of flight and renewable energy.
June 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
admirablewomen.bsky.social
#NASA computer scientist, mathematician & rocket scientist Annie Easley developed code for the Centaur rocket stage, used to launch the Cassini probe.

Her energy research laid foundations for hybrid vehicle batteries and solar/wind power. She was born #OTD in 1933.

#WomenInSTEM #computerscience
This historical photograph features Annie Jean Easley (1933–2011), a trailblazing NASA computer scientist and mathematician whose work on the Centaur rocket stage was pivotal to space exploration. Easley is shown in a medium shot, standing confidently in a NASA control room. She is dressed in a professional, pale peach-colored suit with a high-neck blouse and a matching scarf detail, accessorized with classic gold hoop earrings. Her expression is focused and resolute as she looks slightly past the camera, holding a wooden clipboard and pen as if in the middle of a technical evaluation. The background is dominated by a massive, complex schematic control board filled with red lines, indicator lights, and technical labels. A small, yellowish-bordered inset photo on the wall depicts a laboratory setting. The composition places Easley as the central figure of authority within a highly technical environment. The mood is one of serious intellectual pursuit, capturing the dignity of a woman who broke racial and gender barriers to power the future of flight and renewable energy.
April 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
admirablewomen.bsky.social
Sophie Wilson's influence on modern technology is nearly unparalleled.

Wilson, a computer scientist, co-designed the ARM architecture--the microprocessor technology that powers nearly every smartphone+tablet in the world today.

She was born #OTD in 1957. #WomenInSTEM #ComputerScience #TechHistory
Sophie Wilson (born 1957), a legendary British computer scientist, stands proudly beside a massive, intricate blueprint of a microprocessor circuit. Wilson is celebrated for co-designing the original ARM architecture, the high-efficiency technology that powers nearly every modern smartphone and tablet. She is shown from the waist up, looking directly at the camera with a confident and knowing smile. Her blonde hair is styled in a sleek, chin-length bob with bangs. She wears a professional grey blazer over a bold leopard-print top, accessorized with a colorful beaded necklace and a silver brooch. Her right hand reaches out to point at a tiny, physical microchip held against the giant schematic, perfectly illustrating the staggering scale of her engineering feat—condensing immense complexity into a microscopic silicon chip. The background is a brightly lit, modern office space with large windows, placing her in the environment where her innovations continue to shape the digital world. The mood is one of quiet triumph, capturing a pioneer whose work fundamentally changed global communication.
June 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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September 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
admirablewomen.bsky.social
#OTD in 1965, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in #computerscience.

Keller, a Catholic nun, believed tech should be used to expand accessibility in education. Founded the #CS dept at ⁠Clarke University & chaired it for 20 years.

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech
A black-and-white historical photograph of Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985), an American Catholic religious sister, educator, and foundational pioneer in computer science. Widely celebrated as the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in computer science in 1965, her work was instrumental in expanding computing education. Sister Keller is positioned on the left side of the frame, angled slightly toward the right with a serene, pleasant expression and a subtle, gentle smile. She wears a traditional mid-20th-century Catholic habit of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, featuring a stark black veil, a crisp white wimple covering her neck, and a prominent, stiff white coif framing her face and rising to a soft point at the crown. In the lower foreground, a console from a Bi-Tran Six educational computer stretches across the width of the image. The aluminum interface plate reads "BI-TRAN SIX" at the top left and features labeled functional text blocks such as "ACCUMULATOR," "EXCHANGE," and "LOGIC ZERO" interspersed with rectangular indicator tracks. Sister Keller’s left arm rests behind the console, with her hand gesturing toward a large vertical circuit board matrix in the background. This rear panel is dense with intricate rows of patch cords, modular dials, switches, and plugboard logic gates typical of mid-century academic mainframe hardware. The scene is set indoors against a plain, light-colored wall that maximizes focus on the subject. Clear, direct lighting accentuates the stark black-and-white tonal contrast of her habit, giving the composition an intellectual and forward-looking tone that symbolizes a historic bridge between traditional faith and the dawn of the digital age.
June 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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See this adorable picture of Pikachu?

The file size of this regular, degular image is 1.4 megabytes.

This image alone is 18x larger than the memory & RAM used in the Apollo Guidance Computer that landed astronauts on the moon (0.078 megabytes).

#ComputerScience
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

by Diana Turnbow

www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...

#womeninstem #computerscience
The Harvard Computers standing in front of Building C at the Harvard College Observatory, 13 May 1913. Photograph of the Harvard Computers, a group of women who worked under Edward Charles Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. The photograph was taken on 13 May 1913 in front of Building C, which was then the newest building at the Observatory. The image was discovered in an album which had once belonged to Annie Jump Cannon. Image courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Back row (L to R): Margaret Harwood (far left), Mollie O'Reilly, Edward C. Pickering, Edith Gill, Annie Jump Cannon, Evelyn Leland (behind Cannon), Florence Cushman, Marion Whyte (behind Cushman), Grace Brooks. Front row: Arville Walker, unknown (possibly Johanna Mackie), Alta Carpenter, Mabel Gill, Ida Woods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers#/media/File:Edward_Charles_Pickering's_Harem_13_May_1913.jpg
April 18, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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Ada Lovelace was born #OTD in 1815.

She was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lov...

#computerscience #womeninStem
Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia
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December 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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At top schools like MIT, men earn #computerscience and #engineering degrees at 1.5x the rate of women. At less selective schools, that ratio jumps to 7.1x, a sorry statistic that has more than doubled since 2002. An #economics professor explores the trend: https://buff.ly/4jaexWQ 🧪#WomenInScience
Gender balance in computer science and engineering is improving at elite universities but getting worse elsewhere
Women in these fields are almost at parity with men at the most selective schools, but the gender gap doubled at many of the least selective universities.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Grace Hopper’s groundbreaking work on early programming languages turned abstract logic into machine-readable code. Her innovations laid the foundation for the software that powers our world today.

#ComputerScience #Coding #WomeninSTEM #GraceHopper
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
admirablewomen.bsky.social
Karen Spärck Jones invented Inverse Document Frequency in 1972.

A foundational element in modern search engines, it provides the mathematical basis for determining which words in a search query are most important for retrieving relevant results. #computerscience #education #CSEdWeek #WomenInSTEM
A close-up portrait photograph of Karen Spärck Jones. She is an older woman with short, wavy white hair and round, wire-rimmed glasses. She is smiling broadly and is looking off to the viewer's right. She wears a white collared shirt underneath a red jacket or blazer. The background is a plain, dark gray or black.
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Just realized I never did one of these...
#introduction
Father, husband, #technologist, and #gamer. Work in #technology, #ComputerScience degree from #TexasState.
Constitutionalist #RealLibertarian, not MAGA! #FreeSpeech advocate, proud #athiest #secular #humanist.
Currently playing #GuildWars2.
November 13, 2024 at 2:15 PM
admirablewomen.bsky.social
For those who don't know, the Turing Award is the highest distinction in #ComputerScience, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing." Given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to individuals who have made lasting and major technical contributions to the computing community.
August 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
moorejh.bsky.social
You know the economy is bad when the top computer science school is laying people off www.wesa.fm/education/20... #compsci #computerscience
Carnegie Mellon University lays off more than a dozen computer science staff members
CMU cut 18 employees in administrative and academic support roles, according to a statement.
www.wesa.fm
August 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
taceantcolloquia.bsky.social
#Language is closely linked to any (and every) possible human reality in which it is used, from #Biology to #Physics, including #Art, #Psichology, #ComputerScience, #Paleoanthropology, #Medicine, and many other disciplines.
That is why some people call us #HomoLoquax.
September 23, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Ladies & gentlepeople, I give you Dr. Marian Croak, American engineer and, an extraordinary woman. 💙

#SheShed
#ComputerScience
sassy0210.bsky.social Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · Jun 24
A Black woman built the infrastructure that keeps the world talking.

This is Black history.

Her legacy lives in every call you make.
A Black woman built the infrastructure that keeps the world talking. This is Black history. Her legacy lives in every call you make.
June 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Just started compiling a list of 🧪researchers in the Greater Baltimore/D.C. metro area! 🦀

I'm hoping to get a good sampling of researchers across #astronomy, #physics, #computerscience, and #machinelearning.

The starter pack is woefully incomplete, so lmk if you want to be added!
November 20, 2024 at 7:39 PM
soumya-goblue.bsky.social
Would I have more money if I went into tech (I did AP #ComputerScience in HS and did reasonably well and my brother is in #tech)
Probably.
Do I have enough money for my purposes, and also my dignity and even a lot of leadership experience as a woman of color?
Definitely.
September 25, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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September 23, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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#KostasThoughts: Core math in many #ComputerScience programs is inadequate for studying #ComputerVision & #MachineLearning. Want to study these subjects? Take (single/multi-variable) calculus, linear algebra, statistics & probability.

Your future self will thank you 😉
November 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM
gutenberg.org
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

by Mack DeGeurin

www.popsci.com/technology/f...

#computerscience #publicdomain
8-inch (200 mm), 5.25-inch (130 mm), and 3.5-inch (90 mm) floppy disks George Chernilevsky - Own work Three floppy disks of decreasing size arranged overlapping on a white surface. The largest, at the back left, is a black flexible square disk with a silver label reading "EC5274 SS/SD" and Cyrillic text. The middle disk is orange-red with a white label reading "boedem FLOPPY DISK 5,25" HD,DS". The smallest, at the front right, is a rigid blue plastic disk with a black sliding metal shutter and a label reading "WRITE ENABLE / WRITE PROTECT." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jp
March 2, 2026 at 8:49 AM