I think the most interesting thing here is not some fancy new technology. It’s actually in the integration, and in the conversation, and in thinking about things like what we can actually build right now.
Fran Allen Keynote, Grace Hopper Celebration 2008
presented by Fran Allen
What I believe is that computer science emerged as a science, as a profession, with all the requirements on what professional standards and requirements of what one needed to know to get a job in the field. […] In that period, then, credentials were established, and by the early 70s things had really changed for women, at least in my environment, and most other groups that I've talked to about this theory absolutely agree that that was where there was a significant shift. Read more →