A little history, a little context, and some food for thought about the future for women in technology and computing.

1. Women in Tech
Past, Present and Future
morgan senkal
@morganpdx

2. The Past

3. Ada Lovelace

4. “Oh, talk not to me of a name
great in story; The days of
our youth are the days of our
glory; And the myrtle and ivy
of sweet two-and-twenty Are
worth all your laurels, though
ever so plenty.”
– Lord Byron

5. Charles Babbage
• Mathematician
• Philosopher
• Inventor
• Mechanical Engineer

7. What about
these women?

8. ENIAC
Electronic
Numerical
Integrator
And
Computer

9. ‘Computors'

11. Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Betty Jean Jennings Ruth Lichterman
Marlyn WescoffElizabeth ‘Betty’ HolbertonFrancis Bilas

12. “They stepped in to do a job that
they didn't understand, that nobody
understood. So they had to invent,
discover, and learn how to work this
machine without any real training. In
that sense, they were real trailblazers.”
— Bill Mauchly, son of Kay McNulty
Kathleen “Kay” McNulty

14. ?

15. Programming is fun!

16. **According to society
The Computer
Geek**

19. TRIVIA!
Yes, there will be prizes.

20. Q: Who invented the first compiler?
1. Margaret Hamilton
2. Ada Lovelace
3. Grace Hopper
4. Evelyn Granville

21. A: USN Admiral Grace Hopper

22. Q: Which of the six ENIAC programmers helped
develop standards for COBOL?
1. Frances Spence
2. Betty Holberton
3. Marlyn Wescoff
4. Kay McNulty

23. A: Betty Holberton

24. Q: Who pioneered the Apollo on-board
guidance software required to navigate
and land on the Moon?
1. Evelyn Granville
2. Dana Ulery
3. Ida Rhodes
4. Margaret Hamilton

25. A: Margaret Hamilton

26. Q: Who helped develop the BASIC
programming language at Dartmouth in 1958?
1. Mary Keller
2. Jean Sammet
3. Frances Allen
4. Erna Hoover

27. A: Sister Mary Keller

28. Q: Who helped pioneer many OOP design
pattern concepts during the development
of the Smalltalk language?
1. Elizabeth Feinler
2. Adele Goldberg
3. Barbary Liskov
4. Kathleen Booth

29. A: Adele Goldberg

30. Q: Who became interested in science while listening to
conversations about the technical aspects of weapon
design at her husband’s lavish dinners with important
German military figures prior to World War II?
1. Marlene Dietrich
2. Liesl Karlstadt
3. Hedy Lamarr
4. Hanna Schygulla

31. A: Hedy Lamarr

32. Q: Who was the first woman to win the
Turing award?
1. Frances Allen
2. Evelyn Granville
3. Erna Hoover
4. Kathleen Booth

33. A: Frances Allen

34. Q: Who has a SOLID programming principle
named after them?
1. Adele Goldberg
2. Ida Rhodes
3. Barbara Liskov
4. Grace Hopper

35. A: Barbara Liskov

36. The Present

43. The Future

44. "When I’m sometimes asked when
will there be enough [women on the
supreme court]?
And I say ‘When there are nine.’
People are shocked. But there’d
been nine men, and nobody’s ever
raised a question about that."
My Vision for Women in Tech

45. What about you?

46. Questions
• What are some of the ideas you have for increasing the
number of women in tech?
• How can we make computer science more accessible?
• What is your vision, and what can we do to make it a reality?

47. Questions?

48. Thank you!
morgan senkal
@morganpdx