[deleted]
The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
21–30 of 70 posts
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#22I've reading this news at least for the third time here on HW in this week.
Nice achievement but keep it DRY
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really surprising, is it? In a society that demands of women to get married and raise kids instead of work, it's mostly women who aren't allowed to marry and have kids who get to do things like follow a higher education.
Nobody is demanding that. It could just be that they want to.
Steve Shirley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley was able to found a computing consultancy business in the 1960s staffed entirely by women that had been fired when they got married, as was the usual practise at the time.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#24According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller and https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2019/03/18/2759/ , she is also tied for being the first American to receive a PhD in computer science (one other person received his PhD on the same exact day). They are also potentially (it seems there's some debate) the first CS PhDs ( https://studylib.net/doc/8193211/who-earned-first-computer-s... ). Great line from that las…
The first PhD in computing was David Wheeler in 1951 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_(computer_scient...
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#25No wonder we start counting at zero, it all started with a nun.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody is demanding that. It could just be that they want to.
Steve Shirley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley was able to found a computing consultancy business in the 1960s staffed entirely by women that had been fired when they got married, as was the usual practise at the time.
This is an amazing story I've never run across. Thank you for pointing it out. I think you got trolled, but I'm glad I got to learn about this as a result.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#27Making a lifetime vow does not mean you turn your brain off. The Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître, first proposed the theory that is now known as the Big Bang and made other discoveries in astronomy and physics, and still served as a priest as well.
Gregor Mendel was a monk who established many of the rules of heredity (Mendelian inheritance).
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha, I love the idea of impressing women by showing them your computer skills.
Dunno what to say, green-on-black terminals, clean code and fast typing do always manage to turn me on ;)
Given the era I think we are talking key punches, card readers and line printers here.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#29My great aunt who is a nun got a masters in Chemistry in the 1950s. She said that the only other women in her program were nuns.
It's not really surprising, is it? In a society that demands of women to get married and raise kids instead of work, it's mostly women who aren't allowed to marry and have kids who get to do things like follow a higher education.
aren’t allowed to marry.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#30Making a lifetime vow does not mean you turn your brain off. The Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître, first proposed the theory that is now known as the Big Bang and made other discoveries in astronomy and physics, and still served as a priest as well.
Blaise Pascal is another example. Heard he did something with all kinds of triangles. He was quite invasive with his faith though.
And Reverend Bayes, too.