From jferraio at brynmawr.edu Fri Nov 17 21:54:28 2006 From: jferraio at brynmawr.edu (Ferraioli Julia Rebecca) Date: Fri Nov 17 21:54:16 2006 Subject: [Compsci] Just In Case... Message-ID: you missed it! They say: Women can't use computers! We say: Since when? Having a double X chromosome doesn't mean technology is your mortal enemy, and this shouldn't be a groundbreaking realization. Women have played an important, if sometimes uncelebrated, role in the technological revolution of computing. So we invite you to learn a bit about this history from guest lecturer Janet Abbate. "Re-imagining the history of computing: Insights from women's lives." Wednesday November 29th 4pm-6pm Dalton 300 ------- Janet Abbate is an Assistant Professor of the Science and Technology Society at Virginia Tech, and she has been doing research surrounding gender issues and computing since 1988. She literally wrote the book on "Inventing The Internet" (MIT Press, 1999), and her current research covers the history of women in computing from the 1960's the present day. ------ Sponsored by: Bryn Mawr College Computer Science Department Bryn Mawr College Anthropology Department The Bi-Co Video Gamers Club ??s enewbury@brynmawr.edu