Jennifer Burns started her career with a degree in music education. When it became challenging to make ends meet as a musician she decided to pursue her passion for technology. She graduated in June 2015 from Oregon State University’s online computer science degree program for post-bacc students. She will be attending graduate school at Carnegie Mellon to study information technology. © OSU 2015.
Category Archives: Computer Science
Margaret Hamilton, MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
In the 1960’s Margaret Hamilton and her team saved the Apollo moon landing. Hamilton is now 78 and runs Hamilton Technologies, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company she founded in 1986. She’s lived to see “software engineering” — a term she coined — grow from a relative backwater in computing into a prestigious profession. Read more about her success on Vox.
Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2015
Thank you to Fast Company Magazine for highlighting gender in business and technology issues and for remembering women in their annual Most Creative People list.
Helen Hou-Sandí: WordPress Developer
During a decade spent as a professional musician, Helen discovered web development and then WordPress, and made a primary career switch. Wordcamp 2014.
Irene Au, Director of User Experience at Google
Irene Au, Director of User Experience at Google, and her colleagues President, Google; Anthony Jack, Case Western, discuss cultivating empathic design in an analytical world at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in 2013.
Pardis Sabeti, Computational Geneticist
When the Ebola epidemic began in West Africa, computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti, led a team that sequenced virus samples from infected patients, marking the first in-depth use of real-time DNA sequencing.
CODE Debugging the Gender Gap
CODE documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain from having more women and minorities code? © 2015 Robin Hauser Reynolds
Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/dame_stephanie_shirley_why_do_ambitious_women_have_flat_heads.html
Shirey founded a $3 billion all-woman software company in the UK in the 1960’s, and made millionaires of 70 of her team members. Her company, Freelance Programers, is a software firm with innovative work practices. Filmed March 2015 at TED2015.
The Untold Story of American Scientists
Listen to women from across the Administration tell the stories of their personal heroes across the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Presented by The White House’s STEM program.
Made with Code Makers
Listen to girls and women working with code at Google’s Made With Code site. If girls are inspired to see that Computer Science can make the world more beautiful, more usable, more safe, more kind, more innovative, more healthy, and more funny then hopefully they will begin to contribute their essential voices. As parents, teachers, organizations, and companies we’re making it our mission to creatively engage girls with code.
Women Role Models Project 