The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
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The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
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Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#2I hereby rename NaN to Nun in her honour
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#3"Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its computer center..."
Just wow.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#4Making 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.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#5Making 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.
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Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#6Women got PhDs in computing earlier outside the USA, for instance Beatrice Worsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley
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#7According 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 last link: "Prior to 1965 ... there were none, and after 1965 there was a nun."
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#8"Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its computer center..." Just wow.
I've been working at a joke about men creating languages and parallel processing but that's a story for a different thread.
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#9The first woman PhD in Computer Science was Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
Re: The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
#10"Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its computer center..." Just wow.
According to Wikipedia Dartmouth College was a male only college until 1972.
Woman did work as employees at the computer center, and bringing dates from nearby schools and colleges to the computing center was apparently a thing as students liked to show off their computer skills.
Also of note: unlike other colleges, students at Dartmouth didn't need to pay for computer time, creating both opportunity but potentially also the need to 'guard' against outsiders.